Posted on 11/03/2005 10:06:11 AM PST by Alouette
As the fifth anniversary of Yitzhak Rabin's assassination drew near in 2000, the organization dedicated to preserving Rabin's heritage convened a large and politically diverse group to discuss the character of the events that marked a murder that shook the Israeli and Jewish nation to the core, shifting its foundations perhaps forever.
Organizers of the commemoration heeded advice against using the day as an indictment against the right wing, as had been the case previously. The events would focus on a condemnation of all violence, incitement, and threats to national unity. In addition, they would educate the public about the boundaries of tolerance and the acceptance of the authority of democracy.
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Rabin made his real opinions clear on October 5, 1995, exactly one month before he was murdered, when he made his last speech in the Knesset to which he submitted the principles of Oslo B. These opinions are a far cry from opinions attributed to him today: "We shall not return to the lines of June 4, 1967," he said. "Israel's borders for the final status settlement will be beyond the lines that existed before the Six Day War... and these are the main changes - not all of them - in the final status agreement: first and foremost a united Jerusalem, which will include Ma'ale Adumim and Givat Ze'ev as Israel's capital... the security border will be placed in the Jordan Valley, in the widest sense of the term. [And also] changes will include adding Gush Etzion, Efrat, Betar and other settlements, most of which are east of what used to be the Green Line... and settlement blocs like Gush Katif, and I wish there were settlements like them in Judea and Samaria."
(Excerpt) Read more at haaretz.com ...
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Have read that there are those in Israel demanding that Rabin's murderer be released. That ten years is enough time in prison.
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