Killing a King: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel-杀死国王

作者：Dan Ephron

书名：Killing a King: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel《杀死国王：暗杀伊扎克·拉宾与以色列的重塑》

中文简介：Killing a King: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the Remaking of Israel《杀死国王：暗杀伊扎克·拉宾与以色列的重塑》以充满激情的叙事，描写了拉宾和平谈判的努力，以及暗杀者通过刺杀他破坏和平谈判的计划。

英文简介：The assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin remains the single most consequential event in Israel’s recent history, and one that fundamentally altered the trajectory for both Israel and the Palestinians. Killing a King relates the parallel stories of Rabin and his stalker, Yigal Amir, over the two years leading up to the assassination, as one of them planned political deals he hoped would lead to peace, and the other plotted murder.

Dan Ephron, who reported from the Middle East for much of the past two decades, covered both the rally where Rabin was killed and the subsequent murder trial. He describes how Rabin, a former general who led the army in the Six-Day War of 1967, embraced his nemesis, Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat, and set about trying to resolve the twentieth century’s most vexing conflict. He recounts in agonizing detail how extremists on both sides undermined the peace process with ghastly violence. And he reconstructs the relentless scheming of Amir, a twenty-five-year-old law student and Jewish extremist who believed that Rabin’s peace effort amounted to a betrayal of Israel and the Jewish people. As Amir stalked Rabin over many months, the agency charged with safeguarding the Israeli leader missed key clues, overlooked intelligence reports, and then failed to protect him at the critical moment, exactly twenty years ago. It was the biggest security blunder in the agency’s history.