KILLING A LEADER �

ANWAR SADAT, YITZHAK RABIN, and BENAZIR BHUTTO�

ANWAR SADAT 1918 - 1981  

GAMAL ABDEL AL-NASSER, 1918 - 1970 – PRESIDENT OF EGYPT �

NOVEMBER 20, 1977 ��Sadat speaks at the Israeli Knesset.�This marked the first time an Arab�leader spoke at the Knesset. �

Camp David meetings, September, 1978 �

Peace treaty between Egypt and Israel signed, March 26, 1979 �Left to right: Anwar Sadat, President Jimmy Carter, Menachem Begin�

OMAR �ABDUL-RAHMAN�AKA – “The Blind�Sheikh” Born �1938 �

Issued the fatwa against Sadat. �Leader of Egyptian Islamic Jihad�and currently imprisoned in the �US for a number of terrorist �related activities. �

AYMAN AL-ZAWAHIR �1951- �Currently the leader of �Al-Qaeda��

KHALID �EL-ISLAMBOULI�1955-1982 �

First Lieutenant in the Egyptian�Army – Coordinated the attack.�Executed in 1982 by the �Egyptian state and declared a �martyr by Ayatollah Khomeini�

Sadat and eleven others were killed. Twenty eight were wounded.�

YITZHAK RABIN 1922 - 1995 �

Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat sign the Oslo Peace Accords, September 13, 1993 �

Signing of the Jordan / Israel peace treaty. October 26, 1994 �Left to right: King Hussein of Jordan, President Clinton and�Yitzhak Rabin�

King Hussein and Yitzhak Rabin lighting up.�

Footage from Rabin’s assassination, November 4, 1995 �

Yigal Amir – Rabin’s assassin�

Copy of Shirah Shalom Rabin used�for the peace anthem moments before�he was assassinated. �

BENAZIR BHUTTO�1953 - 2007 �

Prime Minister of Pakistan�1988 – 1990 �1993 - 1996 �

The moment of assassination.�Twenty people in addition to �Bhutto were killed.�

Bhutto’s body moments after her assassination�

Aftermath of the explosion during Bhutto’s assassination �

h#ps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIj6V8zugtE  

NBC Nightly News clip, 1995 �

h#p://abcnews.go.com/Archives/video/oct-­‐1981-­‐aFermath-­‐sadat-­‐assassinaGon-­‐11198745  

ABC news report, October 7, 1981 �

h#p://abcnews.go.com/Archives/video/oct-­‐1981-­‐anwar-­‐sadat-­‐assassinated-­‐11165149  

ABC news report, October 6, 1981 �

One who is disposed to go to the extreme, or who holds extreme opinions; a member of a party advocating extreme measures.�

  Holding extreme opinions.�

EXTREMIST�

From the Oxford English Dictionary�

 a. Of an action or speech: Such as might result from possession by a deity or demon; frantic, furious. Of a person: Frenzied, mad.�

 b. Of persons, their actions, attributes, etc.: Characterized, influenced, or prompted by excessive and mistaken enthusiasm, esp. in religious matters.�

 c. A fanatic person; a visionary; an unreasoning enthusiast. Applied in the latter half of the 17th c. to Nonconformists as a hostile epithet.�

FANATIC �

From the Oxford English Dictionary�

In the regions we have been discussing (or elsewhere for that matter), can political �life be separated from religious life? ��Should these elements be separate? How do we reconcile the most fundamental �questions about being (often answered by religious means) with the messy squalor �of political calculation and democratic impulses?��What do you feel are the primary differences in how Zionism and the Palestinian �community view the actual land at the heart of the conflict?��What do you make of the extremely public and intentional notoriety of Sadat and�Rabin’s assassins versus the calculated secrecy of Bhutto’s?��

Are these leaders martyrs?�