Yitzhak Rabin (Happy Birthday!) OC
"Military cemeteries in every corner of the world are silent testimony to the failure of national leaders to sanctify human life." 1994 Nobel Peace Prize lecture (10 December 1994) This piece was created as a collaboration between Benjamin Jancewicz and Alex Fine. From /u/tayaravaknin: Rabin, commander of the army or not, was never all that big on fighting. He was very prone to nervousness and never got nearly as much war credit as people like Sharon, though he still did get significant security boosts that made him so uniquely placed to sign Oslo. Prior to the '67 war, there are indications that in the lead up he suffered a nervous...
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