[veronica]

I did not say he should have been eliminated. I said he was politically naive and were he here to see the current intifada, (or 'terror') I believe he would have a much different point of view of Arafat and the whole thing, as his wife in large part came to see.

[Phil V.]

. . . were he here to see the current intifada . . .

Had he not been assassinated it is entirely possible that there would not have been the current intifada.

[Phil V.]

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."