Rabin, the Last Day Page #10

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According to the Torah,

if a Jew hands his people

and his country over to the enemy,

it's an obligation to kill him.

Can you stop rocking?

Sit up straight!

When you kill someone...

in battle, it's a negative act,

but the purpose is lofty.

That's why it's permitted.

If someone comes to kill you,

get up and kill him.

Who says it's lofty?

You? Do you decide

what's lofty and what isn't?

Whether to kill or not to kill?

Do you know -

Do you know what it means

to save a human life?

Who brainwashed you,

the rabbis?

An entire nation elects someone

and you decide he should be killed?

Not to kill him,

to paralyze him politically

so he can't function as prime minister.

Israel has laws, doesn't it?

I don't care about the law.

I only care about the Jews.

I want to tell you something

about what's lofty.

I'm talking about saving

a life in hell itself

and I'm talking about my father.

World War Two was hell.

He'd been captured in Germany.

Then he came back to the family.

He escaped and came back...

and he smuggled the whole family

over the Russian border.

The Russians told him:

You can have Russian citizenship,

but only you.

Not your family.

He passed up the opportunity.

He said no,

and he saved lives by doing so.

He took his family

and decided to go to Siberia

because the condition was

either you go to Siberia or you join us.

He said, No. I'm going with them.

He passed up the opportunity

and he made a sacrifice.

He served five years in Siberia

doing hard labor...

and that's what I call lofty.

He didn't look out for himself.

He did something

for the whole family.

- You see?

- I made a sacrifice too.

No! You didn't sacrifice anything!

What did you sacrifice?

I sacrificed myself

for the sake of the Jews.

Rabin is sacrificing the Jews

for the sake of his ideals.

I sacrificed myself

for the sake of the Jews.

Did you ask if the Jews

want your sacrifice?

How can you be so arrogant?

When you left your house,

did you know where you were going

and for what purpose?

When I went to the square

I didn't know I'd kill Rabin.

I figured,

if the opportunity comes up -

I stood there and waited.

I waited between them for 50 minutes

and nobody said a word.

Between who and who?

Between the police and the bodyguards.

- Between the police and the bodyguards?

- Yes.

When I got within range of Rabin,

I saw a space open behind him.

So I turned,

walked around someone

and approached from the side.

I couldn't believe I got so close.

I could have touched him.

When I started walking,

I intended to shoot him in the head,

but when I saw the space open

I went in and aimed at his back,

the seam on his jacket.

Did you shout that they were blanks?

Why would I?

To throw off the security guards.

Interesting idea,

but I didn't do that.

Wipe that stinking smile

off your face.

Sit up straight!

- Do you regret what you did?

- I don't regret a thing.

I did it wholeheartedly.

I did what many have wanted to do,

and it's about time the people woke up.

Do you consider yourself sane?

- I am sane.

- Do you think you're normal?

- Completely normal.

- Or -

Completely normal.

Do you remember your conversation

with Rabbi Tal?

Who told you I spoke to Rabbi Tal?

When did you meet him?

I met him

at Baruch Goldstein's funeral.

I went up to him and asked,

What is this?

Rabin's giving everything away

and nobody says anything?

He said, There's nothing we can do.

It's a divine decree.

I asked,

Isn't he considered Din Rodef?

He said, I don't know.

He isn't authorized

to make Jewish rulings.

He said, I don't know

if there is a Din Rodef.

Then he said, It's a good deed.

That's enough for today.

I want to make this clear.

Perhaps it has been overstated

in the media

prematurely

that two major, dramatic subjects

are going to be decided on

at the meeting

between Mr. Arafat and myself:

the policing of the Jordan Bridge

and a significant enlargement

of the Jericho region.

I think that at the beginning

we were coping too much...

not only because of us,

maybe mainly because of us,

with symbolic issues.

And the main problem...

of what's going to happen

with Gaza -

750,000 Palestinians,

economic woes...

building a system which will uphold

civilian law and order,

which will also bear responsibility

for the security of this region,

which will prepare for development,

which will, first of all,

replace us as administrators

because as I mentioned,

there are 24,000 paid employees

in Gaza's civil administration.

A week from now, when we leave,

who will pay them?

Who is prepared to pay them?

Is there a system

that can take on that responsibility?

In the past I was very much

against a unilateral withdrawal

and the main reason was

that we would be accused -

That by withdrawing

we would create chaos and killing,

and all sorts of things might happen

if we withdraw from Gaza unilaterally

and there is no entity that can take on

the minimum of military responsibility,

and there isn't.

Someone who can take on

the minimum of responsibility

for Gaza's immediate essential needs.

If we don't give electricity,

Gaza will have no electricity.

If we don't supply water,

Gaza will have no water.

If we don't supply their hospitals

with oxygen,

I don't know

what the hospitals will come to.

If we don't provide medicine

and the rupture is too violent -

RABIN IS KILLING ZIONISM

The government's policy

is leading us to destruction.

It's endangering not only the settlers

but the people of Ra'anana,

demonstrating here with me,

and they understand

that the choice is simple:

either a Palestinian state

a few minutes from here,

which is only the beginning,

or autonomy and security,

which we offer.

And that's the choice

the public will face,

I hope, in the early elections.

Honorable Knesset,

the administration that took office

over a year ago

decided to try to put an end

to the cycle of war and terrorism...

to try to build a new world

in our country,

in our homes, in our families,

which haven't known a year,

a month,

when mothers didn't mourn their sons.

We are not blind to the risks

and we will do everything necessary

to minimize them.

At the same time,

we believe

that the risks are calculated

and they are worth taking.

I call on all Knesset members

to give us a chance to take advantage

of this great opportunity.

- Aren't you ashamed of yourself?

- No. I'm the son of a Holocaust survivor.

The grandson

of four grandparents I never met

because of a Judenrte

like this government.

I feel good and safe

among the Israeli people,

even if there are

negative elements.

I went through enough

in my military service

not to be afraid of such things.

There's a backdrop

of verbal violence in the streets.

There's -

The verbal violence

and the attending mood

lead to noisy rioting

as well as actual violence.

I think the actual violence

is only being perpetrated

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