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Thousands of Israelis rallied on Saturday at a rally commemorating the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin murdered by a far – right terrorist at a political rally on November 4, 1995.
The event began at 7:30 pm and brought together speakers from across the Israeli political spectrum. Labor Party leader Avi Gabbay took the opportunity to attack Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Likud-led government policies.
The parents on the Gaza border "know that Rabin has chosen peace and fought Hamas, Netanyahu has given up peace and yielded to Hamas, we are fed up with the politics of fraternal hatred and the campaign of Hamas. We have gathered incitement to the police, the president, the media and the courts, "said Gabbay.
Opposition leader Tzipi Livni, whose Hatnuah party is on the same list as Gabbay's Labor Party under the name of the Zionist Union, also attacked Netanyahu.
"History repeats itself, just read the Prime Minister's messages, watch the videos, listen to the speeches, read the violent replies and blame anyone who thinks of anything else. "It's not a traitor, it was true then and it's true today," Livni said.
Regional Cooperation Minister Tzachi Hanegbi of the right-wing Likud Party was also scheduled to speak at the event, provoking controversy over his opposition to Rabin, who preceded him in the badbadination. .
Hanegbi, like Netanyahu, was a harsh opponent of Rabin's policy and was often blamed by the left for inciting hatred.
The Darkenu movement, which organized the rally for the second year in a row, describes itself as working to "empower the moderate majority of Israelis to influence public policy on public discourse."
"Saturday night, November 3, we, the moderate majority, right and left, will all defend the position to protest the division and incitement to hatred," writes Darkenu in the description of the event. event on Facebook.
"The political discourse in Israel is [still] saturated with incentives that divide Israeli society from within. "
"At this beginning of the election year, it is important that we all remember it: we share the same destiny, the fate of Israel," he added.
A commemorative ceremony for Rabin in October turned into a highly political event when the grandchildren of the murdered leader criticized Netanyahu in their remarks.
The murder shocked Israel and provoked deep internal reflection on the nationalist campaign months and fiery slogans directed against Rabin before his badbadination by Yigal Amir.
In the months leading up to the badbadination, Rabin was labeled a traitor by political extremists. Netanyahu and other prominent members of the Likud participated in right-wing political rallies in the weeks leading up to the badbadination, during which the demonstrators decried Rabin as a "traitor" and a "Nazi".
The posters at an event attended by Netanyahu represented Rabin wearing a Nazi uniform and an Arabian headscarf. Netanyahu was criticized for standing idly by and ignoring the inflammatory rhetoric that prompted Rabin's murder.
– Rabin's grandchildren speak –
At the October commemorative ceremony, these same critics once again targeted Netanyahu, while Rabin's grandchildren spoke to pay homage to their grandfather and condemn the current Prime Minister, who they say continues to incite hatred and polarization among Israelis.
Rabin's granddaughter, Noa Rothman, attracted a lot of attention for her remarks in which she spoke against the current Prime Minister at the ceremony and accused her of Deepen the polarization of Israeli society.
"How many times have you met the leaders of the leftist organizations involved during your term, Prime Minister?" Asked Rothman Netanyahu in his address.
"Not much has changed in the last 23 years …" warned Rothman. "If you do not stop the inducement campaign against anyone who does not agree with your line, the blood will be poured here."
Rothman went on to badert that "even a spokesman for the Prime Minister's Office had recently tweeted the image of my grandfather, calling him a traitor."
The statement confused Prime Minister Netanyahu as he sat in the crowd, and a statement from his office shortly after the ceremony quickly denied him.
The Prime Minister's Office replied, "After checking the request, it became clear that she was referring to a tweet written by a journalist with no connection to the Prime Minister's Office."
Rothman would have referred to a tweet of Jerusalem Post and Breitbart Writer Caroline Glick, who served in the prime minister's office during Netanyahu's first term from 1996 to 1999, reports the Times of Israel.
At the Rabin commemorative ceremony organized by the Knesset on the same day, Netanyahu himself delivered Rothman's speech, saying that "it did not happen and it will never happen".
The exchange of remarks between the grandchildren and Netanyahu eclipsed the remarks of those who commemorated the former prime minister, including those of President Reuven Rivlin.
After opening the ceremony by lighting the commemorative candle, President Rivlin delivered a speech in which he warned that the younger generations of Israel were forgetting the grave consequences of the badbadination of the last Prime Minister.
"The badbadination of Rabin divides us into tribes and camps. 23 years after the murder, it seems to me no choice but to say: each of us can remember the man and the leader Yitzhak Rabin in his own way, but we must agree that we want to remembrance of the killing of Minister Yitzhak Rabin Prime Prime, "said the president in his remarks about the division of Israeli society and the dangers it poses.
The president described the badbadination of "Yom Kippur of Israeli democracy, the day of judgment in which we examine our ability not only to argue, but also to speak and listen."
The president continued by emphasizing the importance of the Israeli people without forgetting the legacy of the killed leader.
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