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...world mourned. Dozens of leaders from across the globe gathered in Jerusalem to pay tribute to a man who sought to bring peace to a nation that has never known peace. As Israel grieved, her people continued to look inward, to try to find where the assassin, Yigal Amir, had nested in the nation's soul...
...days following the assassination, the right and the left have come together to discuss and debate how their resentment might have led one Jew to murder another. For a nation that regards its citizens as kin, Rabin's murder evokes the horror of patricide. But while Amir may have been swept up in the rhetoric of the militants, his kind lives not in Hebron but in infamy...
Friends described Amir as a reticent, friendly law student with a keep intellect. At home, he was always willing to help his neighbors, but mainly kept to himself. We have seen this man before...
...Amir was a militant critic of the Palestinian peace accord who regularly attended anti-government demonstrations. But then that made him no different from tens of thousands of other Israeli hard-liners...
...this to stop the peace process," Yigal Amir told a Tel Aviv court today. "We need to be cold-hearted." The 25-year-old Israeli law student said he shot and killed Rabin because the prime minister would "give our country to the Arabs." The court ordered Amir held for 15 days while police prepare charges of murder, the attempted murder of Rabin's bodyguard, and involvement in an illegal organization. TIME's Johanna McGeary says that there is no indication yet that Amir was part of a larger conspiracy: "He's one of eight kids...