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Yitzhak Rabin during his second term as Israeli Prime Minister, July 1994 (Photo: Wikimedia/Goverment Press Office)

Yitzhak Rabin never evolved from warrior to peacemaker. Until the very end, he retained his “warrior” attitude by openly resorting to the mass killing of civilians to serve his political aims. This includes Operation Accountability, a week-long bombing campaign against the residents of south Lebanon in 1993, that took place as the Oslo Accords were being negotiated.