Posted on 11/02/2001 8:10:38 AM PST by CommiesOut
Rabin's daughter, Deputy Defense Minister Dalia Rabin-Pelosoff, spoke to a meeting of the Labor Knesset faction, giving the group a personal account of her father and his work. "Here, in this room, are the people charged with the mission, and here under your [Rabin's] picture, is the power to change direction and return to the good way."Rabin's son, Yuval, addressed the issue of the Oslo peace process at Mt. Herzl. "Six years have already passed, father, and the move is still not complete ... Oslo failed, many are saying, even accusing you and your partners of being `criminals of Oslo.' We do not know what would have happened had you not been taken in that horrible manner, but there are many who say that had you not been murdered, we would not have come to this horrendous nadir in which we now find ourselves."
What is ASTONISHING to me is the notion that absolution and pardon WOULD EVEN BE CONSIDERED!!!!Without mentioning Yigal Amir by name, President Moshe Katsav declared yesterday that there would be "no absolution and no pardon" for the killer of former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin. Katsav was speaking at a ceremony at the President's Residence to mark the 6th anniversary of the assassination."The murder of a prime minister by a Jew, with the intention to foil a political move, is the type of action that can destroy the state," Katsav said, adding: "Israeli society is still tortured, pained and fragile. Our lives are not as they were."
Yes. And let's hope we get more of that. Rice is sensible.
I believe that is true.
It's about time someone made the connection!!
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