Word: rabins
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Choking up as he spoke of Rabin in the Rose Garden Saturday afternoon, a few yards from the spot where Rabin and Yasser Arafat signed their historic peace agreement in September, 1994, President Clinton said, "The world has lost one of its greatest men, a martyr for his nation's peace." To the Israeli people, Clinton said: "Just as America has stood by you in moments of triumph, so now we stand by you in this moment of grief. For half a century, Yitzhak Rabin risked his life to defend his country. Today, he gave his life to bring...
...Rabin was a special symbol for us," Israeli author David Grossman told TIME's Sam Allis. "He was our mythological Sabra. He symbolized a certain uniqueness in the Israeli people. This was murdered today. He was very simple, very straight-forward. His Hebrew was rough. He was a man of action, not of words. That was his charm in the eyes of Israel. He expressed exactly what he thought." Grossman predicted in September that there would be bloodshed between the Israeli government and right-wing extremists, Allis recalls, citing the Israelis who called Rabin "murderer" and "a traitor...
...like you, are people who want to build a home, to plant a tree, to love, live side by side with you-in dignity, in empathy, as human beings, as free men," Prime Minister Rabin told Palestinians in 1994 as he signed the peace accord with Yasser Arafat in Washington. A reticent, tough-minded leader, Rabin was known as the principal force behind Israel's historic peace agreement with the Palestinians. The Army chief of staff who led the Israeli forces to a remarkable victory in the 1967 Six Day War, Rabin later served as Ambassador to the United States...
...soldiers who were accompanying the bus noticed the first bomber's car and were able to prevent it from getting too close to the bus. These attempts shouldn't disrupt the peace process because there weren't a lot of dead Israelis, and you can be sure that both Rabin and Arafat are breathing a big sigh of relief because of that. But it does show that Jihad is still very capable of carrying out terrorism and that the threat is still very real...
Some will doubtless point to the recent Oslo Accord Declaration of Principles between the Rabin government and the PLO. Not for a moment should anyone be so naive as to think that a man with Arafat's dubious resume is now committed to the hallowed principles of peace which all Americans hold in such high esteem...