Posted on 10/25/2009 7:20:34 PM PDT by Phil V.
Leah Rabin, the late widow of assassinated premier Yitzhak Rabin, used words such as "nightmare," "monstrosity," "corrupt" and "liar" to describe Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in letters she wrote over a decade ago that have recently been obtained by Haaretz.
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People in one political party don’t always like people in another party. Who knew?
“”nightmare,” “monstrosity,” “corrupt” and “liar””
Leah, the late widow of assassinated premier Yitzhak Rabin, always had a way with words, and occasionally fired blank. There were also some good points, but none come to minde. Leah is gone to rest now Halleluiah.
Rab, (no relation)
How's that for a headline? Would it get printed?
Spoken like a true Marxist/Fascist/socialist when confronted with the horror of democracy where someone other than a comrade is elected to power. Poor lady had a bad case of BiBi derangement syndrome! Bless her heart.
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Rabin married Leah Rabin (born Schlossberg) during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. Leah Rabin was working at the time as a reporter for a Palmach newspaper. They had two children, Dalia and Yuval. Rabin was non-religious, with Dennis Ross remarking that Ross had never met a more secular Jew in Israel.
Leah, continued to hold a US dollar account from the days that Rabin was ambassador to the United States. According to Israeli currency regulations at the time, it was illegal for citizens to maintain foreign bank accounts without prior authorization. In the wake of this disclosure, Rabin handed in his resignation from the party leadership and candidacy for prime minister.
The Accords greatly divided Israeli society, with some seeing Rabin as a hero for advancing the cause of peace and some seeing him as a traitor for giving away land belonging to Israel.
Mrs Rabin counted President Clinton among her friends
Leah Rabin said that Mr Arafat was part of the family
Mrs Rabin was at the peace rally where, in 1995, her husband was shot.
She criticised the then Prime Minister Binyamin Netayahu, accusing him of creating the climate which her husband was killed.
She received the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in her home, later telling a German news magazine that he was “part of my family”.
People Watch: Leah Rabin’s Frankness Gets Mixed Media Reviews
February/March 1996, Pages 48-50
People Watch
Leah Rabin’s Frankness Gets Mixed Media Reviews
By Richard H. Curtiss
Leah Rabin’s readiness at her late husband Yitzhak Rabin’s funeral to show her true feelings about his former political associates and rivals by accepting a kiss of sympathy from his long-time rival within the Labor Party Shimon Peres but turning away from Likud Party leader Binyamin Netanyahu set off a spate of Leah-watching articles in both the U.S. and Israel. The New Yorker reported in its Nov. 27 “Talk of the Town” section that one of her friends said, “Leah is a real Tel Avivi. She’s one of the generation that grew up with ideology but then became snobs and took on riches, and became sort of a social elite.” The New Yorker article added that Mrs. Rabin phones Jordan’s American-born Queen Noor just to chat, and also has become a personal friend of Suha Arafat. The Washington Post reported that on his condolence call to the Rabin apartment in Tel Aviv Yasser Arafat kissed the Rabin grandchildren and said, “You are my family now.” The Post report said that when Israeli writer Amos Oz called to discuss Mrs. Rabin’s prior appearance on Ted Koppel’s Nov. 14 “Town Meeting” edition of “Nightline” (see full report on pages 45-46 in the December 1995 Washington Report), a reporter heard Mrs. Rabin say: “What a horror show. For Ted Koppel to come to our country and completely identify with one side of the politics. I didn’t know Koppel was so right- wing. And he’s a Jew!” The Hebrew-language Panim Hadashot of Tel Aviv added that Mrs. Rabin said, “I would prefer that my children be Arabs rather than Orthodox Jews.”
Summarizing all this, associate editor Jonathan Mark of the Jewish News of Queens, NY, who often writes movingly of New York’s many and varied Orthodox Jewish communities, observed, “According to a flood of recent profiles, Leah Rabin is more Cruella DeVille than Eleanor Roosevelt.”
This is not news. She has been saying the same thing for years and this ‘news’ organization knows it.
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Mrs. Rabin is despised as the wife of the man who signed the Oslo agreement. “As soon as her name is mentioned the settlers disparage her by claiming that she is ‘ugly, a very ugly woman to look at’.
I take it she did not refer to the West Bank as, "Judea and Samaria"?
What is the evidence of him being corrupt? The dead woman offers none. I have issues with Bibi, but mostly just a vibe- probably just because he’s a politician.
obots doing what obots do.
That certainly sums up those jerks!
Would you buy a used car from any one of these guys???
By a number of her statements over the years, Mrs. Rabin showed herself to be a bitter, nasty person. The libs will make a big deal of it but most Israelis will not be very impressed with her opinion.
Leah also stressed in her letters that her husband had always opposed the settlements and supported giving up the West Bank.
It isn’t nice to speak ill of the dead. So let them speak for themselves. And speak they do.
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