Israel’s response to the atrocities of October 7, and to the hatred it has faced since before 1948, is not driven by a thirst for vengeance.
THEN-PRIME MINISTER Yitzhak Rabin shakes hands with then-PLO chairman Yasser Arafat as then-US president Bill Clinton looks on, at the White House in 1993. Israel’s gestures have been met with violence, not diplomacy, the writer asserts.(photo credit: GARY HERSHORN/REUTERS)By DAPHNE KLAJMAN
