Yitzhak Rabin is odious figure not only in Israel. He was the first in many aspects: the first Sabra (a Jewish Israeli, born in the country (unlike emigrant-repatriate) who became the head of the government, the first general who has obtained the highest positions in the state. Yitzhak Rabin began the tradition of the military leadership in Israel. There were many opinions about Rabin’s governing actions and methods in Israel, he had both supporters and opponents. The fatal shot united all of them. Yitzhak Rabin became a symbol of the struggle for Israelites’ independence.
Isaac’s father was from Ukraine, he was born in Sidorovichi village of Ivankiv district in Kyiv region. On November 4, 2015, a ceremony will be held in the village where Ukrainian politicians and public figures will remember the life and work of the great son of Israel.
Not once assassinations changed the course of world history. Sometimes it is far easier and simpler to cut short a great man’s life than try to resist his mind, strength and charisma. Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, John F. Kennedy, Indira, Mahatma and Rajiv Gandhi, Boris Nemtsov ... Without any doubt lives of all these prominent people were stopped by force. Because of fear and hate before their power and genius their lives were cut off. In many cases such "political purges" were tried to be called a "democratic power shift" and the "expression of people’s will".
Democracy and peace can not be built on blood and death. An attempt to close the mouth of undesirable politician by shooting is only recognition of their own powerlessness.
Nowadays Ukraine is going through not the easiest period of its political formation. In the Ukrainian history there are many deaths of “undesirable” which like the assassination of Rabin, stay open; their organizers are not found yet. Links of the same chain are Georgiy Gongadze, Vyacheslav Chornovil, Vadym Hetman, the murders of politicians in 90-s, last year wave of deaths. Motive is to stop the process of democratic development and progress, to return people to the period of fear and repression, close mouth of the truth.
Both Israelis and Ukrainians have taken up arms to defend their homes, their land. Is it possible to terrify those nations or stop them? Is it possible by assassination of the leader to erode people’s desire to be free and live in a normal, stable country? I doubt it very much. I want to believe that sooner or later mankind will conclude and a murder as a "political argument" will remain only in history textbooks.
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