(Rewritten on 22-10-2007 as I don't seem to access blogpage Chapter 5 with additions)
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Shortly after Yitzhak Rabin(March 1922-November 1955) became Labour Minister in 1974, he was elected to the office of Prime Minister in June 1974 by the Knesset with deep disapproval of the administration of the governess of strict womanliness by PM Golda Meir even though she was able to pull the administration together.
Before the time he was elected to the Prime Minister's office, during his early years, though he served as efficiently in Palmach(1941) and rose to Chief Operations Officer in 1947, Rabin directed army operations in the War of Independence and assisted in drafting the armistice agreement with the arabs countries, moving on to serving the IDF as Northern Command in 1956-1959 and served as Chief of Operations and Deputy Chief of Staff from 1959 - 1964 and as Chief of Staff in the period of 1964 to 1968.
He then became the ambassador to America in the same year 1968 of his retirement from the military. In spring of 1973 Yitzhak Rabin returned to Israel and was actively involved in the Labour Party. Later in December 1973 Yitzhak Rabin became a member of Knesset and subsequently the Minister of Labour after PM Golda Meir reshuffled her government in April 1974.
On June the 2nd of 1974, the Knesset officially elected Yitzhak Rabin as Prime Minister with much political disapproval of current PM Golda Meir handling the Israeli administration with her strict womanliness but with much satisfaction at the leadership of Yitzhak Rabin in the new government.
During his premiership, PM Yitzhak Rabin concentrated in strengthening internal issues of economy, IDF and other pressing social disunities caused by the differences of views and living of the vast Jewish immigration that not only brought their relatives to Israel but also the different cultures of other countries with them which caused the most friction in community living, exacerbated with the constant conflicts and confrontations with Arab militants that repeatedly encroached into Israel territory to carry out their work of terror.
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(Added on 2 paragraphs 05-12-2007)
Because of reports of improving relations between France PM Chirac with Iran and Iraqi that would establish the French as the second major arms supplier in the 1970's next to Soviet Union in arms for oil deals, it would put Israel in a precarious position regarding the quality of military equipment as most of IDF arms are WWII weapons despite the 22,000 tons of airlifted arms during the 1973 Yom Kippur War.
In September of 23rd in the year 1974, PM Rabin went on a shopping spree to acquire more military arms in the US with Secretary of State Kissinger with an arms treaty of $550 million to modernise the IDF with a security to continue negotiations with Israel's old Arab enemies though it was in contradiction to Rabin's interest in Israel politics
as this negotiations would cause insignificant frictions within his own Labor Party which would cause his coalition to be toppled by the extreme right wing. Yet because of Rabin's sacrifice to modernise the IDF even though it would result in his political chaos, the arms deal went through which would eventually led to the assassination of PM Yitzhak Rabin at the hands of extremist militant religious groups within his own party........-
(Added on 22-10-2007)
Under American mediation, PM Yitzhak Rabin signed an interim agreement with Egypt in 1975 which was followed with a signing of the Memorandum of Understanding between the governments of United States and Israel to promote greater bilateral trade and understanding.
In June 1976, Arab terrorist hijacked an Air France Flight 139 which has the most Israelite citizens were singled out and international tourist was sent home. PM Yitzhak Rabin convened an emergency meeting with the Knesset on the direct response to the hijack, resulting with an official approval to activate Sayeret Ma'tkal, a highly experienced and trained in anti-terrorist
military branch equivalent to the SAS british military arm to disarm and to seize any terrorist threat, was initially code named Operation Thunderball and later christianised as codename Operation Yonatan in honor of a courageous fallen commando Lieutanant Yonatan Netanyahu who planned for the hostage rescue operation and led a daring large force of commandos to release the hostages in Ugandan territory.When the group of six C160 aircraft touched down at Ben Gurion Airport, almost all passengers arrived home safely with the exception of the executed prisoners by the terrorist.
A few months after the Entebbe incident at around 3rd term of 1976, the western countries put political pressure on PM Yitzhak Rabin into signing a treaty ending the 1973 Yom Kippur War officially so as to be able to continue petroleum trade peacefully in Arab domain without Syrian
hostility that led to 2 Suez Crisis, 1956 War of Suez Canal and 1970 Suez Crisis. PM Yitzhak Rabin vehemently refused as he was deeply angered at the killing of live prisoners (a few of which is the finest fighting IDF soldiers that was close to the PM) at the hands of Syrian soldiers when US government officials refused to discuss human rights matters.
The only treaty PM Yitzhak Rabin signed was with the Egyptians and Jordanians where else he walked away from the Syrians which proved to be the turning point in his political career. With the refusal to sign any treaty with the Syrians meant no bilateral trade with US or trade kept to the minimum. PM Yitzhak Rabin did not contest in the 1977 elections citing deep stress and fatigue needing an interval from politics as reason for not standing in the elections.
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................................A Nation in Retaliation 7
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