VOL. XXXIX

No. 7

13 November 1995

The Political Scene

The death of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin at the hands of a Jewish assassin - if it had been a Palestinian it is hard to say what the consequences might have been - has focussed attention on domestic differences in Israel which are almost as old as the Zionist movement itself. It also underlines the fact that Jewish extremism is as much of a danger to the peace process as Arab extremism, although the full regional impact of...