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I forgot to include the "betrayal gene" to the their DNA...

Rabin was one of the few, if not the sole, high-ranking Israeli figures interested in peace (that's an odd phrase, isn't it?), from the bit of reading that I've done he was sincere in his position. The fact that he was assassinated by an extremist at a peace rally attended by 100,000 says something about that society.

Considering what we see among the present generation of Israelis (I mean rioting to have likely war criminals released from prison?) makes me wonder about the indoctrination they go through starting at a young age. I gather their educational system from kindergarten on up to university is rife with Biblical mythologies, an imagined past, propaganda, and of course disdain for the Palestinians. All suffused with a copious amounts of supremacism. You should check out Abby Martin interviewing young Israelis here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeLXmHngNfA to see what kind of citizens they produce.

I don't understand the lack of any response on the part of the Arab states, I'm not sure how much I want to delve into more demented politics as people suffer and die. If there were such a thing, Yemen deserves the Nobel Prize in Morality.

Thanks for your reply.

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