ABSTRACT
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was eulogized as “a statesman who envisaged a different future for the people of Israel.” He was “not only a lover of peace, but a pursuer of peace.” The major speaker of the morning was former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, a personal friend of Rabin’s who had worked closely with him on the Oslo Agreements of 1993, which promised so much in terms of peace between Israel and the Palestinians. Rabin’s approach to peace was palpable, not only rhetorical. “Rabin was not some mystic, teaching peace in the abstract,” Dr. Kissinger continued. He was a soldier who understood well the dangers, particularly when the other side was saying that the existence of the becomes itself the end game. Peace had been established with Egypt and Jordan, and Arabs from all over the Middle East were flocking to Israel for business.
