LETTERS FROM LEAH AN ANGRY WIDOW STIRS ISRAEL WITH HER MEMORIES AND TALK OF HER HUSBAND BROWARD Edition

Sometimes her words are bitter, and in them she finds little comfort. But Leah Rabin still speaks to her slain husband in long, rambling letters. She addresses him as a friend, husband, father and grandfather but rarely as the warhawk-turned-political-statesman who was murdered by a Jewish zealot at...

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Published inSun-sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.)
Main Author E.A. TORRIERO Staff Writer Sun-Sentinel correspondent Joshua Brilliant contributed to this report from Tel Aviv
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Fort Lauderdale Tribune Publishing Company, LLC 30.03.1997
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Summary:Sometimes her words are bitter, and in them she finds little comfort. But Leah Rabin still speaks to her slain husband in long, rambling letters. She addresses him as a friend, husband, father and grandfather but rarely as the warhawk-turned-political-statesman who was murdered by a Jewish zealot at a peace rally in November 1995. Since her husband's assassination, the Middle East peace process he crafted has unraveled. And Rabin herself has become a controversial figure - beloved by the followers of her husband but reviled by legions of orthodox Jews and Zionists who opposed Yitzhak Rabin's way of making peace with the Palestinians. "How many Israelis should have touched Yitzhak's coffin to apologize for the inflamed rhetoric and hostility that created the climate that brought about his death?" she asks in the memoirs. "How many now - left and right, unspoken and outspoken - feel remorse for Yitzhak's death?" Her words sting Israeli society, where people still struggle to accept that Yitzhak Rabin was murdered by Yigal Amir, an unstable nationalist but still a fellow Jew.