Benny Morris: The Mideast Peace Process’s Biggest Myth – Rabin’s survival wasn’t the key to long-lasting peace. | The National Interest

Benny Morris: The Mideast Peace Process’s Biggest Myth – Rabin’s survival wasn’t the key to long-lasting peace. | The National Interest

BENJAMIN NETANYAHU and his relationship with assassinated prime minister Yitzhak Rabin continue to arouse controversy in Israel. Martin Indyk, the former U.S. ambassador to Israel, recounted in January on an episode of PBS’s Frontline, “Netanyahu sat next to me when I was ambassador in Israel at the time of Rabin’s funeral. . . . I remember Netanyahu saying to me: ‘Look, look at this. He’s a hero now, but if he had not been assassinated, I would have beaten him in the elections, and then he would have gone into history as a failed politician.’” Netanyahu’s office denied that he said it.