Rachelle Marshall

Right-wing Jewish extremism endangers Israel and the peace negotiations between Israelis and Palestinian Arabs, argues Rachelle Marshall in the following viewpoint. Orthodox Jewish militants are to blame for the 1995 assassination of Israel’s prime minister,Yitzhak Rabin, and for the deaths of hundreds of Palestinians, the author maintains. She contends that the Israeli and U.S. Jewish community should rededicate itself to tolerance, civility, and compassion to ensure justice for the Palestinians and to honor essential Jewish values. Marshall is a freelance writer living in Stanford, California.

As you read, consider the following questions:

1. According to the author, how many Palestinians were killed by Israelis between 1993 and 1995?
2. According to Alexander Cockburn, cited by Marshall, what did Benjamin Netanyahu believe Israel should have done during China’s Tiananmen Square massacre?
3. How did the...