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LARRY DERFNER ISRAEL2ORRESPONDENT

oday is the day after the
shiva; the seven-day
mourning period is over.
Television is going back to
its normal programming, school
children are back to their regu-
lar classroom studies. The near-
ly 'round-the-clock pilgrimages,
discussions, street singing and
art-making have run their
course; from now on they will be
fewer and more subdued.
Kikar Malchei Yisrael [Kings
of Israel Square], now named
Kikar Yitzhak Rabin, is covered
with melted candle wax. The
pavement and the adjacent City
Hall parking structure, where
Rabin was shot down, are an un-
finished but fully-formed work of
art with hundreds of thousands
of graffiti, poems, letters, draw-
ings, stickers, newspaper photos
and headlines.
Life in Israel is back to routine.
But it is not back to the way it was.
This is a new country. From what
I hear from people in the United
Staes, they are afraid of and dread-
ing what is to come, as if the as-
sassination blew open the rift in
Israel between right and left, reli-
gious and non-religious, and that
there is only worse ahead.
But this is not the way it feels
here. After the immediate hor-
ror, then rage, then numbness
over the murder, a sorrow de-
scended on Israel, one so perva-
sive and palpable that my
neighbor's four-year-old son,
Yoav, cried for the better part of
three days. "We tried to talk to
him but he wouldn't stop crying,"
his father said. "He couldn't ex-
plain why. He just must have felt
from the atmosphere that some-
thing very bad had happened."
Even a four-year-old felt it.
Then out of this sorrow came
love — love for Rabin. And atone-
ment — a mass public apology
for letting the hatred against him
and his peace policy become tox-
ic. Atonement for hearing the
chants of "Rabin is a murderer,"
and 'Death to Rabin," and seeing
the pictures of him dressed up
like a pharoah, like a terrorist,
like a Nazi, and doing nothing to
stop them.
We knew there were many,
many people who wanted Mr. Ra-
bin dead. They paraded it. We
knew their names, their organi-
zations and yeshivot. Yet, we
didn't rise to destroy them as we
should have. We had been, on the
right, too angry or hateful, and
on the left too apathetic or in-

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timidated. And it had cost us
someone more cherished than
we'd ever realized.
This was the feeling of the
overwhelming majority of Is-
raelis, the million or 2 million
people who passed by Mr. Rabin's
coffin in Jerusalem, who lined the
streets for his funeral, who came
to Kikar Malchei Yisrael, and the
remaining millions who had their
televisions on continuously, un-
able to stop watching.
The decent majority of Israelis
showed their best, most soulful
selves after Rabin's murder. For
them it was a catharsis, a puri-
fying experience, a cleansing of
all sorts of poisons running
through the Israeli bloodstream.
The decent majority emerged
from the week of mourning like
someone who has survived a life-
threatening illness: with a reso-
lution to take much better care
of themselves from now on.
This was a political murder, so
the aftermath all that was ther-
apeutic about it was political too.
Rabin's peace process had split
Israelis down the middle. Those
who opposed it — the right-wing,
or "National Camp" - saw their
dream of Greater Israel being
stolen from them, and the threat
of Palestinian terror threatening
to engulf them. The assassina-
tion cooled their fury.
This also ended the 50-50 di-
vision between hawks and doves
and left a consensus in its place
— a consensus for not just the
peace that we all supposedly
want, but a particular way of get-
ting there.
It is a peace in which Yassir
Arafat is not an enemy, but a
partner; a peace in which most
West Bank settlements are not a
blessing, but a burden; a peace
that does not stop for Islamic ter-
ror, but goes forward with more
determination. This peace, which
had ripped the country in two,
has become identified with Ra-
bin's memory, and now com-
mands a vast consensus. Yigal
Amir tried to murder this peace,
but he ended up giving it more
life than did all the Peace Now
demonstrations in history.
A week after the assassination,
Dr. Mina Tsemach, Israel's lead-
ing pollster, found that 54 per-
cent of Israelis favored Shimon
Peres for prime minister, while
23 percent supported Bibi Ne-
tanyahu. That gap will close, but
a sea change has taken place. Ra-
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