The relationship between Israel and the Palestinians has steadily gone from bad to worse since Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated. And now the supporters of Binyamin Netanyahu - a man who was unable (and/or unwilling) to further Rabin’s work towards peace during his own time as prime minister and who was pushed out of office by a landslide defeat in an election that he called for himself - seem intent on hammering the final nail into the coffin of the Middle East.

In November 1995, I was in my dorm room at college listening to the radio with my friend Kim when we heard that Rabin had been assassinated. I remember Kim turned to me, eyes wide, and said gravely, "This is historic. This changes everything."

How right she was.

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