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Mr. Ren
Editor|Mr. Ren
The outbreak of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict has once again brought the uneven Middle East into the focus of the world's attention. In order to completely eradicate the Hamas organization, Israel has even gone so far as to carry out indiscriminate attacks on schools and hospitals in Palestinian areas, which have brought heavy disasters to the Palestinian people.
Some experts say that today's Israel is very much like Japan during World War II. The conflict and entanglement between Palestine and Israel have blinded Israel with hatred, and a series of international acts have become more and more extreme. In the end, it is only Israel's own citizens who can be injured.
(Former Israeli Prime Minister Rabin)
Today's seemingly inexplicable Palestinian-Israeli situation also reminds people of the former Israeli prime minister Rabin, who once campaigned for Palestinian-Israeli peace.
During Rabin's tenure, Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization signed the Oslo Accords, and peace was reached between the two sides for a time. However, with the assassination of Rabin in 1995 by an Israeli right-wing group, the Oslo Accords died in name only. Israel is also going further and further down the path of madness and destruction.
So, what is the legendary life of Israel's former Prime Minister Rabin? In what ways did he contribute to the peace between Israel and Palestine? After his assassination, why did Israel become more and more mad and embark on a path of destruction and self-destruction?
The hawkish prime minister stepped down in embarrassment
When people think of former Israeli Prime Minister Rabin today, the first thing that comes to mind is the mediator of peace in the Middle East, a great figure who, like Arafat, the leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization, made sacrifices to promote peace in the Middle East. However, what is less well known: during Rabin's first term as prime minister of Israel, he was a well-known representative of hawks within Israel.
Rabin was born in 1922 at the Zedek Medical Center in Palestine. Rabin grew up in Palestine under the British "Mandate" and had not yet formed an independent state.
Coming from a well-to-do family, he had neither an abhorrence of the British Mandate nor the lofty ambitions of Zionism. As a young man, Rabin attended the local Kadoorie Agricultural High School, and his biggest dream was to become an irrigation engineer in the Palestinian areas to alleviate the drought problems in Palestinian agriculture.
However, the outbreak of World War II completely changed Rabin's fate. In this great war unprecedented for humanity, Rabin saw countless fellow Jews like himself die tragically under the butcher's knife of Nazi Germany. The German Afrika Korps under the command of the famous German general Rommel launched a large-scale attack on Egypt and other Middle East regions, and if the Jewish settlements in Palestine were also captured by Nazi Germany, then the Jewish nation would probably be completely wiped out by Nazi Germany.
Rabin's sense of nationalism was aroused, and in 1941 he gave up the idea of becoming an agricultural irrigation engineer and joined Hajanah's Paramah Army, which was the elite of the Palestinian garrison at the time, mostly made up of Jews, and which would become the predecessor of the IDF.
In 1947, Rabin was promoted to chief of staff of the Paramach unit and rose to the top of the Israeli military, laying the foundation for his future career in politics.
In 1948, the United Nations passed a resolution approving the establishment of the State of Israel by the Jews. The Jewish re-establishment of the State of Israel, however, is on the land where Palestinians have lived for generations. This resolution adopted by the United Nations has aroused strong dissatisfaction among Arab countries. Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia and other seven Arab countries have warned that once Israel establishes an independent state on Palestinian soil, then the League of Arab States will take military action.
On May 15, 1948, in the early morning of the second day of Israel's founding, the League of Seven Arab Nations gathered more than 40,000 troops and launched a massive attack on Israel across the border. The day after the establishment of the state, Israel was in danger of being destroyed.
Since Israel has just declared its statehood, all the affairs of the state are in ruins. Thus unprepared for a surprise attack by the Arab countries, the forces of the Seven-Nation Arab Coalition marched straight in, and soon approached Jerusalem, the capital of Israel.
At the critical moment when Israel was facing life and death, Rabin stepped forward and organized the defense of Jerusalem, resisting the offensive of the seven-nation Arab coalition, buying precious time for Israel to turn the tide of the war.
The attack on Israel by the seven-nation coalition of Arab countries has drawn the attention of the United States to the situation in the Middle East. On May 17, 1948, the United States proposed to the United Nations Security Council that Israel cease fire with the seven Arab countries for 36 hours.
During these precious 36 hours, Jews from all over the world returned to Israel to fight, and weapons from Britain, the United States, France and other Western countries also poured into Israel, which allowed Israel to immediately turn the tide of the war after the end of the 36-hour ceasefire, defeat the paralyzed Arab coalition forces, and win the first Middle East war.
When the Israeli army entered the counteroffensive stage, Rabin himself led the Israeli army to break through the Negev region and defeated the main force of the Arab countries: the Egyptian army, making great achievements for Israel to win the first Middle East war.
However, this is not the end of the legendary life of the Rabinjung horse. In 1964, the highly decorated Rabin was promoted to chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces. In the Third Middle East War that broke out in 1967, the Israel Defense Forces commanded by Rabin stretched out their hands and almost completely destroyed the air force of Egypt, the main force of Arab countries, and once again defeated the coalition forces of Arab countries, so that Egypt completely lost the strength to fight with Israel.
The Third Middle East War took only six days from the outbreak of the war to Israel's complete victory, and this war was also called the "Six-Day War" by later generations.
After the Third Middle East War, Rabin became famous in Israel and became a household name in Israel. In 1968, at the age of 46, Rabin retired from the Israel Defense Forces and became Israel's ambassador to the United States.
After a career as ambassador to the United States, Rabin won the title of Israel's prime minister in 1974 by a landslide. During his tenure as Prime Minister of Israel, Rabin, who had military experience, was known for his iron-fisted approach, and he decided to decide on Operation Entebbe, which allowed the IDF to raid the airport in Uganda and successfully rescued 102 hostages, leaving a strong mark on the history of special operations in modern armies.
Rabin, however, soon discovered that it was far more difficult to govern a country than to manage an army. The outbreak of two scandals allowed Rabin to end his first term as prime minister early: one was that he greeted the American F-15 fighter jet with Israeli officers on Israel's Sabbath, and the other was that Rabin's wife was exposed to an unknown source of income.
The outbreak of these two scandals undoubtedly dealt a serious blow to Rabin's career. Soon Rabin changed from a national hero praised by everyone in Israel to a "rat crossing the street" that everyone shouted at, and under the pressure of public opinion, Rabin had no choice but to step down and wait for his own opportunity.
He served as prime minister for the second time and promoted Palestinian-Israeli peace
After stepping down, Rabin continued to follow the changes in Israeli politics and maintained his tough stance on Arab countries for a long time. In 1987, after the outbreak of the first Palestinian intifada, Rabin was a staunch supporter of the violent suppression of the Palestinian intifada. To this end, Rabin even said:
"We should cut off the siblings of the Palestinian insurgents."
However, in 1992, after Rabin Rabin became Israel's prime minister for the second time, the former hawkish prime minister reversed the direction of Israel's hard-line diplomacy and became an important promoter of Israeli-Palestinian peace. So, what exactly is the reason behind this?
When Rabin re-inaugurated as Israel's prime minister in 1992, Israel was facing a severe economic crisis. Over the years, the country's Keynesian policy of macroeconomic regulation and control of the economy has failed in Israel, production has stagnated, and the economic dilemma of inflation has enveloped Israel, and the people's livelihood in Israel is no longer optimistic. If we want to change the status quo, we must carry out drastic economic reforms to revitalize the Israeli economy.
As Israel struggles, the bewildered Israelis are once again thinking of Rabin, who they once held up on the verge of collapse – yet Rabin in 1992 was 70 years old.
But in the face of the needs of the country and its people, Rabin still shouldered the heavy burden, and when he came to power, he promised to carry out drastic economic reforms to alleviate the economic crisis facing Israel at that time. However, for the country to carry out economic reforms, it had to have a stable external environment, which was exactly what Israel lacked at the time.
In the second year of Rabin's tenure as Israeli Prime Minister, the Middle East was on fire, with Allah in Lebanon firing rockets into northern Israel, damaging a large number of Israeli civilian buildings. In retaliation, Rabin approved a seven-day military operation by the Israeli army in Lebanon aimed at eliminating Allah forces in Lebanon, known as the "Lebanese Seven-Day War."
From a case-by-case point of view, Israel was not the first country to shoot in the "Lebanese Seven-Day War". However, when Israel decided to launch a retaliatory military operation in Lebanon, Israel was surprised to find that it had become the target of international condemnation by many countries. At the same time, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), which is active in Israel, has also become active and has waged a protracted guerrilla war against the IDF.
At this time, Rabin realized that although Israel had won five wars in the Middle East, Israel had actually won the military and lost the diplomacy. Win hard power, lose international morality. To this day, although Israel has been able to defeat the other side in military strength contests again and again, it is destined to be difficult to maintain a long-term victory if it loses diplomacy and is isolated by the international community.
As a result, Rabin made a decision that surprised both Israel and the rest of the world: to make peace with Arafat, the leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization, and to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict that has plagued Israel for many years by peaceful means.
Rabin's move caused an uproar in the country, with many military and Israeli political hawks viewing Rabin as a "traitor", and tens of thousands of Israeli nationalists taking to the streets to denounce Rabin's "traitorous acts."
In the face of a large number of opposition, Rabin withstood the tremendous pressure of public opinion and tried his best to strive for the longest peace for Israel. Under the mediation and mediation of the United States, Rabin successfully met with Arafat, the leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization, and the two sides signed the famous "Oslo Accords", in which Israel recognized the Palestinian self-governing organization, and the Palestinians agreed to renounce violent opposition to Israel and recognize the legitimacy of the Israeli regime.
After Rabin's historic handshake with Arafat, Rabin said excitedly: "We used to be enemies fighting against the Palestinians, but today we want to say to the Palestinian people in a loud and clear voice: We have paid enough blood and tears for the conflict between the two peoples, and it is time for an end!" ”
Rabin's speech has made the world see the dawn of Palestinian-Israeli reconciliation and even the restoration of peace in the Middle East. What Rabin didn't know, however, was that he was nearing the end of his life.
After the assassination, Israel went into complete madness
Although Rabin's efforts have brought lasting peace between Israel and Palestine and provided a solid external environment for Israel's economic reforms in the late 90s of the 20th century. However, Rabin's series of actions also provoked the envy of militant extremists in Israel, which laid the groundwork for Rabin's personal tragedy.
On 4 November 1995, Rabin, a signatory of the Oslo Peace Accords, participated in a peaceful rally in Tel Aviv's Königs' Square. During the rally, far-right radical Semitist Igel Amir fired two shots at Rabin in the chest and two in the back with a homemade revolver, and Rabin, who had almost never been painted on the battlefield, collapsed in a pool of blood.
(Rabin assassinated)
Since Rabin was in his seventies at the time, the doctors were powerless after he was taken to the hospital. Rabin died of his injuries soon after, at the age of 73. It is very ironic that this soldier and politician, who fought and fought all his life for the Jewish people and Israel, did not die under the butcher's knife of the enemy, but died at the gunpoint of his own people.
After Rabin's assassination, the Oslo Peace Accords were subsequently annulled by Israel's successor government. Palestinian extremist groups have also launched another large-scale retaliatory action against Israel because the successor Israeli government has not fulfilled the Oslo Peace Agreement, and the war in the Middle East, which had shown signs of extinguishing, has been rekindled.
In the ensuing battles with Palestinian armed groups, Israel has been unable to completely eradicate Palestinian armed groups, although it has always been able to defeat enemy forces on a frontal battlefield. The repeated armed attacks by Palestine have exhausted Israel's life, and its methods of encirclement and suppression have become more and more extreme, which has led Israel further and further down a wrong path that runs counter to humanitarianism.
Today, we have found that Israel, which showed its butcher's knife against the Palestinian people in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, has not suffered much better, not only has a large number of Israeli soldiers been bloodied on the battlefield and buried their bones, but even civilians in Israel have also become the targets of attacks, and the Jewish nation, which was regarded as innocent in World War II, has also borne a disgraceful reputation because of Israel's extreme acts in recent years.
It is undeniable that Israel and Palestine have each made many efforts and even sacrifices for the sake of peace between the two sides. However, the intervention of the superpower and hegemonism in the Middle East situation is doomed to make it difficult to have a lasting peace here, and Israel, which seems to be a chess player in control of the Middle East situation, may in fact find it difficult to get rid of the fate of a "pawn" in the face of the superpower, and this is precisely where Israel's national tragedy lies.
What will be the fate of Israel and Palestine? It may be difficult for people today to know the answer, but one thing is certain: endless homomorphic revenge will inevitably drag these two countries or regions to the abyss of destruction, and the people of both sides are destined to become the biggest victims and victims of this war.