The 30th anniversary last month of the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin sparked two curious misrecollections.

One, by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency’s Andrew Silow-Carroll, reported on a new musical and a poetry collection, asking if the Jewish world has forgotten the premier, a “champion” of Israeli-Palestinian peace.

The more substantive article, by Ambassador Dennis Ross, a senior Middle East official in four administrations and now at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, appeared in The Atlantic under the headline “Yitzhak Rabin Knew What Netanyahu Doesn’t.”

Both essays failed to come to grips with Rabin, the leader, and his view of an eventual Israeli-Palestinian settlement. The first lamented the younger Jewish generation’s ignorance of the

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