coincide with what appeared to be the actual starting of the peace process, there was a dramatic recludescenza extremist Zionist groups more aggressively and, at least in terms of the same Likud propaganda. The walls of the Israeli towns, starting in Jerusalem were inundated with provocative posters depicting Rabin and Arafat together united by a Nazi swastika. In the eyes Zionist Rabin, who signed with Arafat's first attempt at peace between Israelis and Palestinians, based on the principle of safety in exchange for territories "and the recognition of Palestinian national authority by the state of Israel, during a massive anti-war demonstration was assassinated with three gunshot wounds in Tel Aviv November 4, 1995 by a young law student born in the United States and belonging to a small Jewish party of the ultra right. The killer, Yigal Amir, was able to approach the Israeli prime minister without anyone noticing, but after the shock and despair of the early days went to growing doubts about the true nature of the attack, which took on more and more the contours of a genuine own plot and not a mad act of an isolated young. During the investigation, doubts grew on the work of the Shin Bet security service. The investigation and statements by Amir, they emphasized that the bomber would be backed by a group of young hooligans, some elements of Mossad and even from one of Rabin's bodyguards. The morning had appeared in Tel Aviv a poster depicting Rabin under the word "Wanted." Leah, the widow of Yitzhak Rabin rejected their condolences to Sharon and Netanyahu, the Likud leader, and accused him bluntly of moral complicity of her husband despite the serious loss and the growing opposition to the violent Palestinian groups opposed to the continuation the peace process in early 1996 he held the first general elections in the territories handed over to the Palestinian Authority: Arafat was elected president and his party (Fatah) wins the most seats in the National Council of autonomy. The turnout was excellent despite the boycott against Abash and the Popular Front for Hawatmeh and a new movement of recent birth, destined to have large development in the course of time: it was an organization, Hamas, who was said to be supported by the Muslim Brotherhood and Iran Khomeini (but there are those who denounced the work under the table of Sharon, Hamas saw an element of extremism that could weaken Arafat). Also in 1996 in a climate of growing tension caused by the resumption of attacks against Israelis, there were new elections in Israel which were won by the Likud, whose leader Benjamin Netanyahu became prime minister. He allied himself with the extreme right, started in breach of the peace agreements the resumption of colonization in the occupied territories, imposed repeated delays in the agreed dates for the evacuation of troops and thus causing a sharp return of hostilities with the PLO and the entire Arab world.
The coalition government of right was soon weakened due to some defections and new elections were held in 1999, which led to the leadership of the country's Labour Minister Ehud Barak, who seemed willing to resume the process peace up to admit an explicit recognition of a Palestinian Arab state. The Barak government had a hard time for internal disputes and why the majority coalition failed peace talks with Arafat launched at the end of 2000 at Camp David (USA) with the mediation of U.S. President Clinton.
At first it seemed that everything proceeded for the best but the three protagonists of the talks were in some way as "lame ducks" Clinton was about to end his second term, Barak, admitted that he knew was in good faith at the outset that it would not never have accepted at least two of the demands that Arafat had given him, namely the return of the Arab part of Jerusalem and refugee return in the future Palestinian state, Arafat knew that, because of the corruption of many representatives of the PLO his party was severely weakened. On the other hand, while the negotiations took place in Jerusalem Ariel Sharon, defying every rule of fairness that no one had ever dared to break in, was produced with the protection of an impressive array of Israeli police in a provocative walk on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. The anger that the irresponsible act, on the other carefully studied in view of the almost certain new Israeli elections, triggered the Palestinian population that gave rise to bloody events and the proclamation of a second "Intifada".
Barak resigned in early elections in February 2001 affirmed the right-wing coalition led by Sharon formed a national unity government with Labor and religious parties. In 2001/2002, a wave of unprecedented terrorist attacks hit Israel, where public opinion was shocked by the fact that the bombers were young, who were blown up along with their victims into hideous suicide bombings. Israel responded with heavy reprisals in the occupied territories, particularly in the West Bank, to confine Arafat was old and sick in his Ramallah headquarters. At the end of the terrible crash victims were counted in 320 Israeli civilians and nearly 4,000 deaths on the Palestinian side. Among the episodes in
which developed the tragic story stands out for its drama of what happened to the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, which had taken refuge in a hundred Palestinians, some of which are suspected of being terrorists were exiled at the end of a long negotiation, thanks to 'active intervention of Pope John Paul II, who bluntly accused Israel of imposing on the Palestinian people with a painful and unjust ordeal.
The elections of January 2003 saw the victory of the Likud led by Sharon, Labor's defeat and the success of a new line-oriented secular Shinui that while the religious parties were not opposed to the less intransigent towards the Arabs . Sharon was given the task of forming a new government and in February the same year he presented to the Knesset, a coalition of the Likud, Shinui and the party from nazionalreligioso, a small extremist group that represented the "settlers." 
To counter the terrorist attacks of suicide bombers, the Israeli government responded by ordering the construction of a high wall that, in addition to encircle the Palestinian territories took advantage of Israel's borders in order to incorporate more new lands. During the same year, however, resumed the attempts by the international community to achieve a resolution of the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, partly because the Sept. 11, 2001 was the tragic attack on the Twin Towers in New York and the Pentagon by a group of Saudi terrorists, is affiliated with an organization, Al-Qaida, led by Sheikh Osama Bin-Laden. The new American government, led by George W. Bush was in urgent need to isolate the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from anything that could provide space and grounds to the front facing new enemy on the horizon and in this context was presented a new peace plan called the "Road Map", drawn not only from the USA, European Union, Russia and the United Nations, which was entrusted to the discussion between the Palestinians and Israelis. The facts were soon proved that it was unsuccessful in the presence of a new illusion: now, as he comments an Israeli writer, Israelis and Palestinians were like two scorpions in a bottle closed.
To counter the terrorist attacks of suicide bombers, the Israeli government responded by ordering the construction of a high wall that, in addition to encircle the Palestinian territories took advantage of Israel's borders in order to incorporate more new lands. During the same year, however, resumed the attempts by the international community to achieve a resolution of the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, partly because the Sept. 11, 2001 was the tragic attack on the Twin Towers in New York and the Pentagon by a group of Saudi terrorists, is affiliated with an organization, Al-Qaida, led by Sheikh Osama Bin-Laden. The new American government, led by George W. Bush was in urgent need to isolate the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from anything that could provide space and grounds to the front facing new enemy on the horizon and in this context was presented a new peace plan called the "Road Map", drawn not only from the USA, European Union, Russia and the United Nations, which was entrusted to the discussion between the Palestinians and Israelis. The facts were soon proved that it was unsuccessful in the presence of a new illusion: now, as he comments an Israeli writer, Israelis and Palestinians were like two scorpions in a bottle closed. 
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