After the Israeli Elections: “The Rabin Era”?

On Friday, June 26, immediately following the elections, one of Israel’s leading papers chose as the banner headline on its weekend magazine, “The Rabin Era!” And it may well be that we shall eventually come to rank 1992, together with 1967 (the Six Day War) and 1977 (the start of the Likud ascendancy) as a year which opened a new, crucial stage in the history of Israel.

But even if that proves to be the case, it should not blind us to the fact that this was the narro...