Decade after murder, thousands mourn Rabin: Clinton: Take up his work

[DeepModem Mom]

CNN/AP: A decade after murder, thousands mourn beloved premier
Clinton: Take up Rabin's work, "see it through to the end"
Saturday, November 12, 2005


TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) -- Tens of thousands of Israelis packed the Tel Aviv square where Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated 10 years ago to mourn the former prime minister and to express hopes that his memory would spur new efforts to bring peace between Israel and the Palestinians.

Rabin's killing by an ultranationalist Jew opposed to the premier's peace efforts with the Palestinians stunned the country a decade ago, revealing the depth of Israel's internal conflicts and badly damaging dreams of peace.

Those at the memorial rally Saturday sang songs of peace, held candles and waved Israeli flags as they remembered Rabin, who won a Nobel Peace Prize for signing the Oslo interim peace accords with the Palestinians.

"I loved him very much, and I was in awe of his ability to move from being a soldier to being a peacemaker, a politician to a statesman," said former U.S. President Bill Clinton, who forged a deep bond with the Israeli leader as he sought to broker Mideast peace.

"If he were here, he would say, 'There is enough of all this missing. If you really think I lived a good life, if you think I made a noble sacrifice in death, then for goodness sakes take up my work and see it through to the end,"' Clinton said....


http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/11/12/rabin.remembered.ap/index.html

[onehandle]

1. But what about war and oil stocks?

Peace is for pussies. The right-wing of both of our countries are making the rich richer with blood!

[Ken Burch]

2. One good sign that Rabin's work may be taken up again

the Israeli Labor Party has just elected Amir Peretz, a leftist
and peace activist, as its new leader, defeating Shimon Peres, the
old-line right wing Labor man who led the party into its increasingly
self-destructive coalition with Likud. Peretz has pledged to take
Labor out of that coalition as soon as possible, and to try and force
new elections.

If Peretz(who is also the first Sephardi(North African or Mediterranean Jewish)leader of a political party in Israel can bring his party into an alliance with the new Yachad party led by Yossi Beilin, and can also bring large numbers of Sephardic voters over to the Labor camp, it is possible to finally revitalize the Israeli Left
after a long period of decline.

[cantstandbush]

3. that's truly great news. I wish them the very best in pursuit of peace.

[goclark]

4. Me too , Clinton has such understanding

[BenDavid]

5. Yitzhak Rabin

understood peace. He understood that peace comes with consequences. He always calculated every risk, and every detail. So when he decided that the risk of not having peace was too great, he moved forward. Yitzhak Rabin was "a guardian of security and a chancellor of reconciliation". The lifelong soldier's desire for peace was tempered by tremors of doubt. When Rabin was finally convinced of the necessity for peace, the prime minister "became a true force of nature. Nothing could deter him."

Yigal Amir, who assassinated Rabin, failed miserably in thwarting the peace process.Yigal Amir didn't want to kill Yitzhak Rabin the man. He wanted to kill the ideas of Yitzhak Rabin. Amir was unable to do that.

"I know that the legacy of Yitzhak Rabin will live on for years to come, because there are too many people around the world who won't rest until his vision becomes a reality."

"Shalom Haver"......Goodbye Friend.