Comment on Do political assassinations generally help or harm the cause of the person that was assassinated?
specialseaweed@kbin.social 2 years agoThere is no question that the assassination of Rabin was a "success". The assassin had a political objective that was met completely.
chumbalumber@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 years ago
True; my only question is whether it was inevitable that peace talks would have broken down anyway, and all the assassination did was slightly hasten the collapse. It’s like the question of whether the assassination of Ferdinand caused WWI. No-one would argue that it wasn’t the trigger, but in the counterfactual case tensions were so high that a conflict was really inevitable.