Rabin, the Last Day Page #6

Synopsis: Itzhak Rabin's murder ended all efforts of peace, and with him the whole left wing of Israel died. The movie shows the last of his days as prime minister, and what led to his murder.
Genre: Drama, History
Director(s): Amos Gitai
  4 wins & 4 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.8
Metacritic:
66
NOT RATED
Year:
2015
153 min
16 Views


That is our alternative.

Zionism.

We'll get rid of Rabin

with blood and fire!

Rabin, resign,

we don't want you anymore!

I call on the masses

gathered here today...

to go out to the junctions,

to go out to the streets,

to go out to the city squares

and demonstrate our disappointment

with the governments policies,

our opposition to bringing

Arafat to the Land of Israel

and our determination

to preserve our state, our hills

and our city of Jerusalem.

He's a traitor! He's a traitor!

Death to Rabin! Death to Rabin!

Death to Rabin! Death to Rabin!

The current administration

doesn't have a Jewish majority

and therefore it has

no authority whatsoever

to give away parts

of the Land of Israel.

The very signing,

the declaration

of giving away parts of Israel,

constitutes the concession

of parts of the Torah...

and that is a desecration.

The Oslo Accord means nothing,

and no administration

that represents the Jewish people

should even consider it.

The Accord is a violation

of the Torah for three reasons.

Giving away parts

of the Land of Israel,

the Holy Land,

is a violation of Torah law,

an explicit violation.

Placing the security of Jews

in the hands of gentiles,

in the hands of others...

is risking lives,

an invitation to murder.

Furthermore...

the emissary may not act against

the wishes of he who sent him.

And the majority of Israelis,

the Jewish majority,

and certainly in the Diaspora,

did not grant this minority government

the authority to act

in fundamental, essential matters

that determine our fate.

And now...

the question must be asked:

Must not the leaders

of the public...

warn this administration...

warn the prime minister

and his ministers

that if they continue

to act on this awful treaty,

if they continue to try to apply it

in the territories...

they will be liable by Torah law,

by Jewish law...

to the Din Moser,

punishment accorded to traitors...

since they are placing the lives of Jews

in the hands of gentiles?

That's all I have to say.

- Let's begin.

- Who has the floor?

Gentlemen,

I have something to say.

If we want to stop

the peace process,

we have to attack Rabin

and only Rabin.

To crush him and his legitimacy

in security issues,

to undermine his emotional

and political stability.

Since Rabin is the dominant figure

he must be weakened,

presented as someone who gave in

to leftist dictates, a puppet of the Left.

If we succeed,

the Left will lose the upcoming elections.

Every time I see his face turn red

from the pressure

applied by my small team -

Go ahead. I had my say.

I know we've won.

Friends, all we need

are 10 men.

My men disguise themselves

as journalists

and get Rabin's schedule

from the local councils

where he's appearing.

They organize quickly,

as a small, noisy group,

and greet the prime minister

with catcalls

wherever he goes.

Bravo. Very good.

True, sometimes Kach and Kahane's

activists show up, but we can't control that.

Friends, we're following the rules

of this administration,

which has no mandate.

These people know they're being sold out

and they won't have it.

We have to rebuild the democracy

since this administration

is an insult to the Knesset

and the rule of law.

And it's only the beginning.

We always act

through legitimate means

and the message we want to spread

through our people is:

Rabin, go home. Rabin, go home!

Hello. Good evening.

Friends, I'd like

to cut this discussion short

so we can listen to Dr. Neta

who'll give us a psychological profile

of Prime Minister Rabin.

Go ahead, Neta.

- Good evening.

- Good evening.

Besides all of your discussions

here at the Council,

may God bless you,

and besides

all the strategies and tactics,

I want to devote a few words

to a character analysis

of our prime minister.

This is a professional opinion

since I'm a clinical psychologist

and for many years now I've treated

all kinds of characters

including schizophrenics.

My diagnosis is...

the prime minister...

is schizoid,

there's something missing.

A schizophrenic is a person

who loses, to some degree,

contact with reality

and lives in an absurd imaginary world

of his own making,

out of touch with objective reality.

This kind of person

has strange thoughts,

hallucinations,

thoughts with no rational basis.

These people usually

find themselves

in psychiatric hospitals.

The schizophrenic...

suffers from detachment.

It's hard for him to understand,

to communicate with others,

and schizophrenics have a proclivity

for addictions,

to drugs, to alcohol.

As a clinical psychologist...

I'd recommend very strongly

that Yitzhak Rabin receive treatment

and the public should be informed

of the prime minister's sad condition.

- Excuse me.

- Yes.

- Pardon me for interrupting.

- It's perfectly all right.

But in light of the important things

you're bringing up here,

I'd like to know if there are

other leaders in the world

who have such severe

psychological problems.

Unfortunately, yes.

Certainly there are other leaders

like him.

Hitler, curse his name,

was schizoid.

And there are still those like him,

plenty of them.

I've observed Rabin's personality

in the media.

I've studied a lot of documents

in order to reach this diagnosis,

and it is precise.

The symptoms speak for themselves.

It's obvious.

The detachment.

The inability to find ways

to express himself.

The grasping for words,

for concepts.

The repeated tendency

to use the term

which, naturally,

indicates a certain megalomania.

Certainly.

His contorted facial expressions,

his odd gestures...

his uneasiness...

and above all...

his absolute belief

in his perverse reality,

the fruit of his imagination...

and the complete loss...

of his ability to judge.

All these symptoms indicate,

clearly and incontrovertibly,

that Yitzhak Rabin is a schizoid.

It's unthinkable

that we should place our country,

our trust and our leadership

in the hands of a man

who suffers this pathological disease!

My God!

We will treat the signing

of the Oslo Accords

as occupied France treated

collaboration with the Nazis.

I'm so sorry, but...

the facts are unbearable.

It's treason! Listen to me!

- We have to make the point clear.

- He's right.

It's treason...

and the day may come

when Rabin is put on trial

just as Ptain was,

and from now on the word traitor

should be attached to Rabin's name.

- Friends, friends -

- You're blurring the point.

- It needs to be made clearer.

- But he's right.

Friends, we have to be practical.

The people must know

that Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres

have joined the Cult of Satan.

- The Cult of Satan.

- Friends, it's a fact.

You can't bring that message

to the public.

It's a cult that has taken over

the government.

Just as the Vichy government.

Mrs. Orot,

please call the next witness.

Sit down, please.

Please state your name

and ID number.

Name:
Noam Kedem.

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Amos Gitai

Amos Gitai (Hebrew: עמוס גיתאי‎; born October 1950) is an Israeli filmmaker, mainly known for making documentaries and feature films, surrounding the Middle East and Israeli–Arab conflict. Gitai's work was presented in several major retrospectives in Pompidou Center Paris, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York, Lincoln Center New York, and the British Film Institute London. To date Amos Gitai has created over 90 works of art throughout 38 years. Between 1999 and 2017 ten of his films were entered in the Cannes Film Festival for the Palme d'Or as well as the Venice Film Festival for the Golden Lion award. He has worked with Juliette Binoche, Jeanne Moreau, Natalie Portman, Yael Abecassis, Samuel Fuller, Hanna Schygulla, Annie Lennox, Barbara Hendricks, Léa Seydoux, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Henri Alekan, Renato Berta, Nurith Aviv, Éric Gautier and more. Since 2000 he has collaborated with the French filmmaker Marie-José Sanselme. He received several prestigious prizes, in particular the Leopard of Honor at the Locarno International Film Festival (2008), the Roberto Rossellini prize (2005), the Robert Bresson prize (2013), the Paradjanov prize (2014), and Légion d'Honneur (2017). Gitai was born in Haifa and divides his time today between Paris and Haifa. more…

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