经济学家，纪念拉宾

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http://economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10102884
YOU were the pillar of fire before the camp and now we are left only as the camp, alone and in the dark”. So said his weeping grand-daughter, eulogising Yitzhak Rabin after he was shot in the back by a Jewish religious zealot 12 years ago.  But the Israel of that time was in fact a camp divided
Although history let some lucky countries (such as Britain, but not—remember Algeria—France) colonise the lands of others for a while without corroding unity and democracy at home, Israel is not one of those.
“你是帐篷前的营火，现在我们只剩下了帐篷，孤独，黑暗。”——12年前拉宾的孙女这样赞颂他。但那时的以色列其实是一个分裂的帐篷。
虽然历史容许一些幸运的国家在殖民别国时没有败坏其国内的团结和民主（比如英国，而非法国，别忘了阿尔及利亚），以色列不在此列。