The Rise and Fall of Benjamin Netanyahu

Yossi Ben-Ghiat: Netanyahu compared Rabin to Neville Chamberlain, who did appeasement with an Atsis in a column for the New York Times. At rallies, Netanyahu's followers started carrying posters with photoshops of Rabin dressed as Yasser Arafat or just wearing a straight-up Nazi uniform," he says. The fact that Rabin gets killed at a moment when peace is kind of at its most popular with the Israeli electorate should have meant that it would have been possible to work things out, she adds.