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in political affairs, halting the
delegitimization and demoniza-
tion the government, ceasing all
talk of a civil uprising, and stop-
ping the "slanderous portrayal of
the secular public that supports
the peace process as people to-
tally devoid of values."
In a similar vein, Professor
Ravitzky reminded his colleagues
of the unpleasant but undeniable
fact that "almost all the murder-
ers on ideological grounds [in Is-
rael] have come our of our ranks"
and posited that there's a thread
running from the murderous at-
tack on the Islamic College in He-
bron by the "Jewish
underground" in the 1980s
through Baruch Goldstein's as-
sault on Arabs at prayer in the
Cave of the Patriarchs to the
murder of the prime minister in
the Kings of Israel Square.
Not only did the self-lauded ed-
ucation of the modern-Orthodox
schools fail to prevent these acts
of violence, he charged, "we con-
tinued to send our children to the
extremist yeshivot even after
they had identified with Gold-
stein."
These issues were aired before
it came out that Mr. Amir was
not an isolated murderer, but the
head of a group of yeshivah grad-
uates who were accomplices to,
or at least aware of, the assassi-
nation plot.
Even before the conspiracy
was revealed, Rabbi Yoel Bin-
Nun of the West Bank settlement
of Ofra implied that the "rot" of
religious incitement was more
widespread than most of his col-
leagues were prepared to admit.
In an uncharacteristically emo-
tional speech, Rabbi Bin-Nun
charged that over the past
months various West Bank rab-
bis had effectively incited their
followers to murder by ruling
that Yitzhak Rabin fell into the
halachic category of a rodef —

defined as a person who
Place---jew in mortal danger
and is, thert.T.
to be stopped
by any means, inc dingsum-
mary execution.
Demanding that the rabbis
who had issued such rulings re-
sign from their posts by tit and
of the seven-day mourning peri-
od, Rabbi Bin-Nun threatened to
expose them if they did not.
The aftermath of Rabbi Bin-
Nun's dramatic "J'accuse" is still
being played out. Though he re-
vealed the names of two West
Bank rabbis — Dov Lior of Kiry-
at Arba and Nahum Rabinowitz
of Ma'aleh Adumim — to Chief
Rabbis Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron
and Yisrael Lau, the latter effec-
tively dismissed the accusations
as hearsay, accepted the denials
made by Rabbis Lior and Rabi-
nowitz, and suggested that fur-
ther charges be made directly to
the police.
The deeper questions raised
by the rabbis, educators, and po-
litical leaders of national-religious
camp remain to be addressed at
length. What conclusions are to
be drawn from the fact that al-
most all the preachers and prac-
titioners of political violence the
past decades have come from its
ranks?
How can the blatantly racist,
anti-democratic proclamations of
many of the settlers and their
rabbinical leaders be reconciled
with their pretensions to be the
elite of the Jewish state and
torchbearers of Jewish values?
And finally, will the painful
self-scrutiny continue or quickly
fall into eclipse, as it did after the
exposure of the Jewish under-
ground?
These questions are not pleas-
ant to face, but they are critical
ones. For in the answers to them
lies, to no small extent, the future
face of Israeli society. ❑

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best when unifying to com-
bat dangers from outside
their borders. Battles
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mies have contributed to the un-
derlying stability of Israel's
fractious political system for
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