ISRAEL HAYOM
Dr Kenneth Levin
March 15, 2015

Four months ago, at ceremonies marking the 19th anniversary of Yitzhak ‎Rabin’s assassination, Isaac Herzog, Rabin’s heir as head of the Labor party, praised the late prime minister’s dedication to Israel’s ‎security.‎ But for Rabin, security had an essential territorial component, as he made clear in ‎his last Knesset speech before he was murdered.‎ Like the authors of U.N. Security Council Resolution 242 — still the cornerstone of ‎Israeli-Arab peace negotiations — Rabin recognized that Israel’s pre-1967 armistice ‎lines left the nation too vulnerable to future aggression. He insisted Israel must keep Jerusalem united and hold onto a significant portion of the West Bank to block traditional ‎invasion routes and to protect both Jerusalem and the low-lying coastal plain, ‎home to 70 percent of the nation’s population. READ MORE