[Mb-civic] Sharon Apologizes at Rabin Memorial

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Sharon Apologizes at Rabin Memorial

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-israel-sharon-rabin,0,1313553.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines

October 27, 2004, 12:45 PM EDT

JERUSALEM -- Facing threats to his own life, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon 
stood beside Yitzhak Rabin's grave Wednesday and apologized for his role in 
inciting anger against the premier in the tense months before his 
assassination.

Before he was killed by an ultra-nationalist Jew, Rabin had came under a 
barrage of increasingly personal verbal assaults from hard-liners -- 
including Sharon -- opposed to his land-for-peace deals with the Palestinians.

"The arguments were never personal ... They were over issues affecting the 
heart of the nation and its fate," Sharon said at a memorial ceremony 
marking the ninth anniversary of Rabin's assassination on the Hebrew calendar.

"If during the heat of this real debate I said things I shouldn't have, I 
am sorry for that," Sharon said, standing by the black and white marble 
grave marker.

In the months leading up to the Rabin assassination, hard-liners branded 
him a traitor, rabbis issued rulings calling for his killing and Sharon 
spoke at a tempestuous rally where posters of Rabin in a Nazi SS uniform 
were displayed openly.

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Funny as hell.

Every time I hear that story, heh, I always have to laugh a little because 
I just find it so dang funny that the people who publicly called for 
Rabin's death and dared to publicly deride and threaten and display him in 
doctored-up posters with an actual Nazi SS uniform (Go ahead, I'll wait 
while you try to imagine Bush or Kerry doing that, and all the rest, to 
their opponent here in this democratic land of America, then "someone" 
having him killed, and basically nothing happening as a result), not *only* 
did all that to him before he was assassinated *because* (Prime Minister) 
Rabin (Of Israel) ***threatened*** to do such a despicable thing as bring 
Real Peace to The Middle East by giving up some simple Real Estate, but 
among their continuing ranks of established and respected personages, 
Sharon himself is now Prime Minister of Israel.

In all optimism, I would have to wager that a donkey will pop out of 
Sharon's *ss before Real Peace is *allowed* to emerge there.


I just gotta say it again, be a man, Ariel.

At least have the courtesy to dig Rabin up and stare him in the face when 
you apologize.

That's only fair.

Just dust off his SS uniform a little before you put him back in the ground.

We like to keep things tidy around here.


Come to think of it, if you and your people had not have had The Prime 
Minister Of Israel publicly assassinated, Peace would have been made.

And in all probability, The World Trade Centers would still be standing as 
I type this.

And we wouldn't even be at war in Iraq.


You wacko *ssholes.

F*ck you too.


You have MANY more graves to apologize at than just Rabin's.


And the end of them is not even in sight yet.


(Insert your name or the name of your country here ___________ if you too 
are complicit in all this b*llshit.  Again, we like to keep things tidy here.)