November 4th represents the 18th anniversary of the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. In this week's Time Magazine, Middle East correspondent Karl Vick invented an entirely new set of facts about the effect Rabin's death had on the the Oslo Peace Accords. His contention that the Accords didn't begin to fall apart until after Rabin's death belies the truth:

The diplomatic achievement was sealed on the White House lawn on Sept. 13, 1993, with a signing ceremony and a handshake between Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.

The reality came home nine months later, in July 1994, when Palestinian guerrillas led by Arafat ended 27 years of exile by rolling into the Gaza Strip escorted by Israeli soldiers. "From the moment we entered Gaza, it looked like, my God, really peace has come," says Nabil Shaath, one of Arafat's lieutenants. "We were doing things fast."

The momentum ended on Nov. 4, 1995, when a radical right-wing Jewish settler shot Rabin dead at a peace rally in Tel Aviv. In that moment, many historians have argued, the Oslo accords suffered a fatal blow. Without Rabin to reassure a nervous Israel that Oslo was a genuine path to peace, extremists quickly began to drive events on both sides.

Vick's analysis is inaccurate; Islamist terrorists "began to drive events" before Rabin's tragic death. Between the day the Oslo accords were signed and the day Rabin was killed, 136 people were murdered in 58 separate terrorist attacks conducted by Arafat and his associates.

The terrorism was getting so bad Rabin was thinking of scrapping the Oslo Accords before he died. In October 2010 Rabin's daughter Dalia was interviewed in Seven Days an Israeli magazine, and revealed:

Many people who were close to father told me that on the eve of the murder he considered stopping the Oslo process because of the terror that was running rampant in the streets and that Arafat wasn't delivering the goods.