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...wanted to pay tribute to Rabin's generosity and openness to change," said Epps. "It was an important service because it gave members of the community a chance to mourn the loss and think about the issues raised in his assassination...
Yuval Segal '97, co-chair of Harvard Students for Israel, expressed some regret that the service did not focus on Rabin as much as it should have...
...Lots of analogies [with different peace makers] were made, but I don't think that enough was said about Rabin's life or his accomplishments," he said...
Segal said the service could have placed more emphasis on Rabin's turn-around from a military warrior to a committed peace maker...
TIME's Johanna McGeary says Israelis are still trying to gauge whether the mainstream right contributed to the killing: "The political debate here has become incredibly vicious and personal. The far right has been saying Rabin's a traitor, Rabin's a Nazi, and it's OK to kill such a person. This assassination grew out of a vitriolic atmosphere that the extreme right translated trading land for peace into betraying the Jews. There was a period a few months ago where the extreme right advocated killing Rabin and the mainstream right never disavowed...