He would surely give the analogy the gruff soldier's sleight of hand: Yitzhak Rabin as Moses, glimpsing a land he was not fated to enter, leading a march that others would be destined to complete. But timing has given the death of Rabin no small measure of tragic artistry. The soldier who had asked his country to bid farewell to its solitude among nations, to go beyond the siege it has known since its birth, was struck down when his latest work, this search for peace, had begun to bear fruit. After the wilderness, after the wars and the heartbreak, Rabin's Canaan was just over the horizon: "For you shall see the land before you, but you shall not go there...."
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