On the best known conflict in the world – Talia Banon Tsur in Haaretz:

‘On Saturday morning, November 4, 1995, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin pondered whether to address the peace rally set for that evening in Tel Aviv. "Yitzhak liked to play tennis on Saturday mornings," Rabin's wife, Leah, told director Amos Gitai after the assassination.
It was one of Rabin's rare moments of recreation, but on the morning of the peace rally, he said, "Leah, my eye hurts. Maybe I shouldn't play." So their day began with a visit to the doctor.’

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‘This is one of his main motivations for creating "Yitzhak Rabin: Chronicle of an Assassination" – "it's an act against forgetting."
Critics say that Israelis are increasingly forgetting; schools, for example, don't necessarily teach about the atmosphere that preceded the assassination, or about the people who helped stoke it.’

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‘"Yitzhak Rabin: Chronicle of an Assassination" has been performed around the world, including in New York, Paris, Vienna and Salzburg, everywhere in the local language to an audience that doesn't know Rabin like Israelis do.
"The audience has been surprisingly enthusiastic," Gitai says. "I think that's a question of how you engage, even theatrically, with a burning political issue. The current politics of the Middle East, whether we like it or not, exists in the consciousness everywhere – it's the best-known conflict in the world.’

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‘It hasn't been easy being an Israeli filmmaker over the past two years. The cultural boycott is intensifying and has also battered artists who clearly opposed the war. Still, Gitai showed at both the Berlin ad Venice film festivals last year, and his new movie, "Golem in Pompei" is competing at the Tokyo International Film Festival.
In short, the cultural boycott hasn't affected him. "My works are shown in many places around the world, even in charged places like Madrid, which hasn't screened a lot of good Israel filmmakers, which is a pity."
Your films are more appreciated around the world. Would you like to be more accepted in Israel? "I'm very grateful and pleased to have the privilege of only making the films and plays that I make in the way I want to make them. I haven't done and won't do anything that I don't want to do. I have no complaints. If Israel only wants to tell narrative stories, let it tell them."
With the cease-fire in Gaza, do you think the cultural boycott will fade or persist? "They say it will remain, or that parts of it will. I can only talk about my experience. My works are boycotted. Maybe I shouldn't say that out loud and give somebody ideas."’

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Read the article here.

Thirty years after the assassination of Rabin we had October 7.

One of the more desperate leftist Israelis I met in September referred to the time of Rabin a short era of hope.

Oslo was flawed, perhaps it could have only led to the second intifada, but a more nuanced view is also appropriate.

Israel will remain a apriah for the time being, it will become the Serbia of the Middle East.

The pariah states of the world might unite one day.