tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5317785168322570964.post3090884622497274881..comments2023-09-22T11:03:44.260-07:00Comments on MFPS's History & Theology Blog: 15 Years ago today, the world lost a great leader of IsraelMattHistoryPersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01275451425549454996noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5317785168322570964.post-13241808722152662082010-11-05T10:14:08.106-07:002010-11-05T10:14:08.106-07:00Rabin's grieving widow, Leah, refused to shake...Rabin's grieving widow, Leah, refused to shake hands with the Likud's Binyamin Netanyahu, one of the staunchest and most vitriolic opponents of Rabin's peace overtures, but shook Arafat's hand. "I feel that we can find a common language with the Arabs more easily than we can with the Jewish extremists," she said.<br /><br />The Likud and other revisionist Zionists, the right-wing religious parties and the settler movement oppose the peace process because they advocate the annexation and settlement of the whole of Eretz Israel (Land of Israel), the vaguely-defined Biblical territory which God "promised" to Abraham. "Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel," reads the Likud party's platform.<br />...Guardian<br />http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/sep/18/israelandthepalestinians.middleeastAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05867525392138559442noreply@blogger.com