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...members of the Society of Arab Students would like to express their deep regret for the loss of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. We hope that the peace process which he helped initiate will not be impeded by this tragic incident, and we hope that his legacy will be one of peace and not of war. --Muna Sukhnan President, Harvard Radcliffe Society of Arab Students
...loss of Yitzhak Rabin is a tragedy for the Jewish people and the world. He was surely a great statesman, but his vision and commitment to peace will mark him as one of the great leaders of the century. He devoted his life to the creation and survival of the Jewish state and to the welfare of the Jewish people. As a young man, he defended Jerusalem in the 1948 War of Independence and later commanded the Israeli armed forces to victory in the 1967 war. In war and in peacetime, he held his principles dear and ultimately paid...
...reject the vision of God which Rabin's assassin claims as his motivation for this horrific crime. We divorce ourselves from those extreme elements which use violence to express their political views, and we are outraged by those who would celebrate the murder of any person...
Palestinian fundamentalists greeted the news of Rabin's assassination, MacLeod reports. In Lebanon, PLO members fired guns into the air in celebration. Mohammed Zahhar, a leader of Hamas, told an Associated Press reporter in Gaza: "He practiced all forms of violence against us. I'm joyful because he was punished." Ramadan Abdallah Shallah, the new leader of Islamic Jihad who succeeded assassinated leader Fathi Shiqaqi, told Reuters in Damascus, Syria: "I am not sorry for the killing of Rabin who is the world's number one terrorist. What if the world lost one of the criminals and killers...
Khalid Saffuri, assistant executive director of the Washington, D.C.-based American Muslim Council, heard the news as he was walking into his office. "Oh my God!" he thought. "The peace process is dead." Speaking to TIME's William Dowell Saturday, Saffuri expressed concern that Shimon Peres, who lacks Rabin's charisma, may lose the next election. He told Dowell: "If the Labor Party loses the next election, the peace process is over. I am shocked. For the first time since it began, I think the peace process is in real danger. This is a real blow. Rabin...