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Firooz Banooni, M.D.

bin's last song, "Song of Peace,"
used to be the theme song at
peace rallies; now it is the theme
song of the nation.
There is a problem here. As
Mr. Netanyahu told members of
the Likud, "Without an opposi-
tion, there is no democracy."
What a desperate statement.
With the Palestinization of the
West Bank racing ahead, and the
Israeli elections a year away, Mr.
Netanyahu wasn't urging his
troops on to fight; he was trying
to give them CPR.
There must be a protest
movement against the peace
process, but protest movements
run on anger, and the National
Camp is afraid to display anger
today, knowing, as most Israelis
know, how its anger had turned
to viciousness over the last two
years.
Somehow, the right-wing
protests will resume. But they
will be cleaner, safer than before.
The first sign of malicious invec-
tive against Mr. Peres, and not

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where it can lead and are ready
to bury it. People like Mr. Zimel-
man, who were a small, disre-
garded voice in the past, will now
get a hearing. "I feel like I want
to get involved more, talk to peo-
ple more," he said.
"Eyal" is still in business. So is
Kach and Kahane Chai and the
rabbis whom Rabin so aptly char-
acterized as "ayatollahs." But
they are on the run. Many of
them will be in jail for a long
time, and anybody who tries to
follow in their footsteps will be
stopped.
"I don't think there's going to
be a civil war," said Eli Leder-
hendler, a senior lecturer in
American Jewish history at
Jerusalem's Hebrew University.
"The extremists have been iso-
lated. Where they once were a
threat because they had broader
backing, or at least sympathy,
from the more radical sectors of
the legitimate right-wing, main-
ly in the settlements, those ties
have now been cut."

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only the Labor Party, but most
of the public, will fall on them.
Hopefully the left will also feel
constrained in its attacks on the
opposition. On balance, the po-
litical life of Israel should be
healthier.
Religious Jews, except for the
perverters of Judaism, are un-
dergoing the deepest heshbon ne-
fesh , or soul-searching, of any
Israelis.
"My dream has been shat-
tered," said Eliot Zimelman, a
left-leaning, modern Orthodox
Jew in Jerusalem. "It's almost as
if Judaism itself has been dele-
gitimized."
Religious moderates are in
mourning; Judaism in Israel was
hijacked by fiery rabbis who
placed the value of Greater Israel
above all other values — the op-
posite of the Judaism practiced
by people like Mr. Zimelman.
But again, there is now an up-
side. Yigal Amir was a brilliant
student of that miserable, mur-
derous interpretation of Judaism;
he acted in its name. Many
young religious Jews, including
those of the right, have seen

It was symbolic and good that
the events of the week following
the assassination focused on two
cities: Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.
These are the capitals of the "two
Israels" — Jerusalem the right-
wing and religious, Tel Aviv the
left-wing and secular.
The two cities mourned Mr.
Rabin equally, the two cultures
shared equally in their country's
greatest tragedy. They have
something to talk about now.
Because of its national and in-
ternational magnitude, Mr. Ra-
bin's assassination was at first
compared to John F. Kennedy's.
Soon, though, people realized that
they were fundamentally differ-
ent. Lee Harvey Oswald mur-
dered out of personal
derangement; his Marxist ideolo-
gy meshed nicely with the fires in
his brain, but his was an essen-
tially non-political act. There was
nothing about America in 1963
that would have allowed anyone
to predict Mr. Kennedy's murder.
Yigal Amir, on the other hand,
murdered out of political and re-
ligious conviction. His crime was

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