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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (15278)	6/12/2002 12:58:57 AM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

Nadine, the assasination of Gandhi and Rabin were carried out but a group of people to attain a political objective. It was done violently, to drive fear in the minds of the people in general with a warning message from the perpetrators that similar fate awaits those if they supported peace. Your email said: <...and there was much discrediting of, and introspection among the Israeli right, on the grounds that intemperate language had somehow made the assassination possible....>> Aha. Are they claining to be similar to the Muslim moderate types who according to some lurkers say there is no such thing as Muslim moderates and that a Muslim is incapable of talking anything else but just terror etc. By in the case of Jewish terrorists they are capable of turning over a new leaf? Say what? Different rules/different standards for a Jew and a Muslim? Aha?

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (15278)	6/12/2002 2:01:00 PM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

All of Israel was horrified by the assassination of Rabin Not true. <<< The assassin of Rabin, Yigal Amir was a law student at the renowned Bar Ilan University in Tel Aviv, a center for religious fundamentalists and those with extreme attitudes. Before the court Amir explained that in accordance with the Halacha any Jew who "leaves his people and his land to the enemy, as Rabin did, must be killed. I have studied the Halacha all my life and I know what I am talking about." The assassin of Rabin has also become an idol, and on 9 August 1997 Israeli television reported on three girls of roughly 17 years of age who had founded a Yigal Amir fan club. The girls said that their parents and teachers tolerated, justified and even actively promoted the initiative. In front of the camera they passed around photos of their 'hero' and praised his courage and the smile he had kept on his face throughout the entire trial. The girls attend religious schools and belong to the Orthodox wing of Israeli society. Their headmistresses spoke of 'confused' ideas of misled juveniles, but on the walls of the schools one could read graffiti expressing a wish that Shimon Peres would die. The accusation of too little hating sounds unbelievable to Western ears. >>> Message 16518703 Tom