Incitement insight

Regarding your editorial “Incitement’s lessons” (October 26), the fact that prime minister Yitzhak Rabin had been led against his will and behind his back by foreign minister Peres and negotiator Yossi Beilin to agree to the Oslo Accords has been glossed over. Once again there is incitement against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as having blood on his hands but apparently some people can call him a murderer and be protected by free speech.

The writer says a vicious campaign of incitement was waged, but if my memory serves me correctly, it was the bus bombings and the dread that we might not get home alive from work that the public could not bear. It was a tragedy that Rabin’s life was cut short by that vile assassins bullet, but it was not the bullet that ended the dreams of peace but rather Yasser Arafat and his cohorts. Has prime minister Ehud Barak forgotten that the Second Intifada happened on his watch, not on Netanyahu’s watch and that foreign minister Tzipi Livni came back from all her peace negotiations with nothing but more violence from Abbas?

However Netanyahu is still the villain.

It isn’t Trump who is doing the inciting, but the Democrats who are refusing to accept his leadership and celebrities and other people can openly abuse him with no repercussions. Only the Democratic views are legitimate – but that is not democracy and the demeaning way the media present Trump makes me ashamed.

So when organizations like Breaking the Silence tell lies, they are not inciting against us, but if we retort, we are doing the inciting? Crazy world where bad is good and good is incitement. FREYA BINENFELD

Petah Tikva