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100,000 gather at Rabin memorial to hear Bill Clinton, Obama

100.000 ljudi se skupilo na memorijalu Rabinu kako bi čuli  Bill Clintona i Obamu 

Some 100,000 attend a rally marking the 20th anniversary of the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in the same Tel Aviv square in which he was killed during a peace rally.  

TEL AVIV (JTA) — An estimated 100,000 people remembered Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin at a Tel Aviv rally marking the 20th anniversary of his assassination that featured speeches by President Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton. 

Računa se da je 100.000 ljudi sudjelovalo u demonstracijama povodom obilježavanja 20-godišnjice ubistva premijera Yitzaka Rabina uz govore Obame i Clintona. Na trgu, koji nosi ime Rabina,  je Bill Clinton   odao počast Rabinovoj  spremnosti da preuzme rizik za mir i tražio od sakupljenih da nastave njegov posao. 

Clinton je vodio Izraelsko-Palestinske pregovore  (Oslo 1993) u vrijeme kada je Rabin bio premijer. "Slijedeći korak će odrediti da li ste odlućili da je Rabin  u pravu  i da vi trebate dijeliti svoju budućnost sa susjedima, da trebate raditi na miru, da rizik mira nije tako strašan kao rizik da ga se odreknete" rekao je Clinton. 

U video poruci je Obama  nazvao Rabina liderom  koji je shvaćao opasnosti s kojima se susreće Izrael....

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Rabin was assassinated on Nov. 4, 1995 following a pro-peace rally at the same plaza in central Tel Aviv. His assassin, Jewish extremist Yigal Amir, opposed Rabin’s goal of Israeli-Palestinian peace.

In a video message, Obama called Rabin a leader who “understood the dangers Israel faces, but he also said the Palestinians are not to be ruled over forever by force.” “Yitzhak speaks to us still,” Obama said. “Let us demonstrate that we oppose violence and extremism of any kind, and let us exhaust every opening for the peace we know is just and possible.”

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin called on Israelis to mend their internal social rifts. “Israel’s democracy has not ceased to realize its strength and resilience,” he said at the rally.