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\r\n\tIn a previously unpublicized recording of a 1976 interview, Israel’s fifth prime minister Yitzhak Rabin can be heard calling the still-nascent West Bank settlement campaign “comparable to a cancer,” and warning that Israel risked becoming an “apartheid” state if it annexed the West Bank.
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\r\n\tThe recording is being publicized for the first time in the documentary “Rabin: In His Own Words.”<\/p>\r\n

\r\n\tThe film, timed to the 20th anniversary of Rabin’s November 1995 assassination by a Jewish man, traces Rabin’s life using original and sometimes never-before-seen footage.
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\r\n\tIn the 1976 interview in which Rabin delivers the searing critique of the settlement movement, he prefaces his comments by saying, “I have said, and this I ask really not be used, I’m not going to [say it publicly], and I’m not a political lunatic for saying this.”<\/p>\r\n

\r\n\t“I see in Gush Emunim [a settlement campaign,] one of the most acute dangers in the whole phenomenon of the State of Israel,” he confides.
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\r\n\t“What is ‘settlement’ anyway? What struggle is this? What methods? ‘Kadum’ [a settlement] is a bloated fart.”<\/p>\r\n

\r\n\tHe adds: “Gush Emunim is not a settlement movement. It is comparable to a cancer in the tissue of Israel.”<\/p>","content_source":null,"content_url":null,"content_columns":"0","content_date_start":"2015-09-26 14:56:45","content_date_finish":"2015-09-26 14:56:45","content_date_register":"2015-09-26 14:56:45","content_date_last_edit":"0000-00-00 00:00:00","content_show_img":"1","content_show_details":"1","content_show_related_img":"1","content_show_slider":"1","content_show_title_slider":"1","content_comment":"0","content_score":"0","content_recorded":"0","content_confirmed":"1","content_status":"1","content_kind":"0","old_id":"125558","tag_id":null,"tag_word":null,"tag_service":null,"tag_total":null,"tag_soundex":null,"attach_token":"1942382162","attach_date_register":"2015-09-26 14:56:48","attach_id":"129737","attach_file_ext":"jpg","attach_file_header":"image\/jpeg","attach_img_type":"2","attach_img_width":"600","attach_img_height":"404","attach_file_media":"1","attach_show_watermark":"0","score_average":null,"score_count":null,"score_date_last":null,"visit_count":"107","visit_date_last":"2025-05-11 12:13:12","attach_title":"In 1976 interview, Rabin admits Israeli apartheid","node_title":"news","ot_node_left_right":"[{\"node_id\":122, \"left\":2, \"right\":53}]"}]]