My first experience doing legal research for a court case was while I was a law student in Israel. I was helping my brother-in-law who was among the lawyers to petition Israel’s Supreme Court in December 1992 about Rabin’s decision to deport 415 Palestinians to south Lebanon. 1/

Rabin decided to retaliate against Hamas for the kidnapping and killing of 6 Israeli soldiers by instituting an overnight mass deportation of 415 Palestinians to a no-man's land in south Lebanon. The mass deportation was gaged at the order of Israel’s military censor. 2/

A majority of the deportees were non-combatants and many of them were already in detention for their association with Hamas. The mass deportation was a form of collective punishment in violation of int’l humanitarian law and was even condemned by the UN Security Council. 3/

After several dramatic hearings, the Supreme Court ultimately approved the mass deportation though it noted a violation of deportees' right to be heard individually. Deportees stayed in @ICRC provided tents in South Lebanon for more than 14 months. https://www.btselem.org/deportation/1992_mass_deportation 4/

Rabin decided to sign the Oslo accords in order to: 1) ‘separate’ from the Palestinians; 2) maintain Israel’s Jewish Zionist character; 3) To ease int’l pressure and scrutiny regarding the decades-long military occupation and dispossession of Palestinians. 5/

By sub-contracting Israel’s security operations to the Palestinian Authority he also wanted to relieve the government of domestic checks on his power despite the fact that the judicial system approved most of Israel’s gross violations of int’l law anyway. 6/

Rabin had famously stated that the new Palestinian Authority (PA) would be able to fight Palestinian militancy with “no B’Tselem and no Bagatz,” referencing the Hebrew acronym for Israel’s High Court and Israel’s premier human rights watchdog respectively. 7/

As many commentators noted, Rabin rejected the creation of a sovereign Palestinian state and never seriously acknowledged or apologized for his involvement in atrocities against millions of Palestinians during the 1948 war and during his career as military and civilian leader. 8/

Many people praise Rabin as a peacemaker for signing the Oslo accords, but Oslo cemented Israeli control over historic Palestine and helped the state claim a pursuit of peace without taking any necessary steps like ending the occupation and Israel’s Zionist colonial project. 9/

Rabin was instrumental in creating the mirage of peace while continuing Israel’s militaristic, settler-colonial project to seize and control as much land in historic Palestine as possible with minimum Palestinian civilian population to rule over. 10/

The transfer of some security and governing powers to the PA was considered treasonous by right-wing Israeli extremists who resisted Rabin's plan. Rabin was assassinated because he was seen to have betrayed Jewish-Zionist settler colonial project, not because he renounced it. END