Twelve years ago today, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated. From Wikipedia:
Before leaving the stage on the night of the assassination, Rabin had been singing Shir Lashalom (literally Song for Peace), along with Israeli singer Miri Aloni. After he died a sheet of paper with the lyrics was found in his pocket, stained with blood.
The assassin wasn't a Palestinian, a Syrian, or an Iranian. It was Yigal Amir, a right-wing Israeli radical who opposed the Oslo peace accords. It's similar to Gandhi's death in a lot of ways -- Gandhi, himself a Hindu, was assassinated by a Hindu extremist who opposed Gandhi's conciliatory attitude towards the Muslims in Pakistan.
