In 1992, Yitzhak Rabin, newly re-elected as prime minister of Israel, told a group of visitors from the Washington Institute for Near East Policy: “I would like Gaza to sink into the sea. But that won’t happen and a solution must be found”.
Almost 30 years later, Benjamin Netanyahu – a prime minister as unlike Rabin as it is possible to imagine without entering the realm of Game of Thrones – holds much the same opinion. The difference between the two men is that while Rabin pursued peace, culminating in the Oslo Accords (and paid for it with his life at the hands of a Jewish assassin), Netanyahu is doing his best to sink Gaza into the sea.
