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Scurrilous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 12:00 PM
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Israel marks 14 years since Rabin assassination
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"Israel marked the 14th anniversary of the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin on Thursday with ceremonies at his graveside, in parliament and at schools and community centers across the country.

Rabin was shot dead by a Jewish extremist who opposed his peace policies on Nov. 4, 1995. Israel officially marks the date according to the Hebrew calendar.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Shimon Peres and other dignitaries joined Rabin's family at a ceremony at his grave in Jerusalem."

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"A memorial rally will be held on Saturday at the Tel Aviv square where Rabin was gunned down after a peace rally. It was renamed Rabin Square in his honor. Thousands are expected to attend.

Israeli media say President Barack Obama will deliver a recorded message calling on Israelis to remember Rabin's legacy of peace."

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=114283670
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Kolesar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 12:12 PM
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1. In other countries, that would have been called a "coup"
Edited on Thu Oct-29-09 12:12 PM by Kolesar
A long period of extremist agitiation followed by an assassination and eventual domination of parliament by the extremists' party.
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LeftishBrit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 01:19 PM
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2. In memory of a good man. A very tragic loss to his country, the Middle East and the world
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oberliner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 01:32 PM
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3. Amen
I still vividly remember that horrible day.
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shira Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-29-09 04:49 PM
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4. excerpt from Rabin's very last speech before the Knesset
Edited on Thu Oct-29-09 04:51 PM by shira
compare Rabin's vision of Palestine with what Barak offered in 2000 and Olmert in 2008...


We view the permanent solution in the framework of State of Israel which will include most of the area of the Land of Israel as it was under the rule of the British Mandate, and alongside it a Palestinian entity which will be a home to most of the Palestinian residents living in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.

We would like this to be an entity which is less than a state, and which will independently run the lives of the Palestinians under its authority. The borders of the State of Israel, during the permanent solution, will be beyond the lines which existed before the Six Day War. We will not return to the 4 June 1967 lines.

And these are the main changes, not all of them, which we envision and want in the permanent solution:

A. First and foremost, united Jerusalem, which will include both Ma'ale Adumim and Givat Ze'ev -- as the capital of Israel, under Israeli sovereignty, while preserving the rights of the members of the other faiths, Christianity and Islam, to freedom of access and freedom of worship in their holy places, according to the customs of their faiths.

B. The security border of the State of Israel will be located in the Jordan Valley, in the broadest meaning of that term.

C. Changes which will include the addition of Gush Etzion, Efrat, Beitar and other communities, most of which are in the area east of what was the "Green Line," prior to the Six Day War.

D. The establishment of blocs of settlements in Judea and Samaria, like the one in Gush Katif.



http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/MFAArchive/1990_1999/1995/10/PM%20Rabin%20in%20Knesset-%20Ratification%20of%20Interim%20Agree

He was a great man - however, many on the anti-zionist far left would now consider him worse than Barak or Olmert if he continued to hold the same views.
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