Summary

Excerpts from floor statements by members of Congress honoring slain Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.

Source CONUS Archive
Record ID 274307
Story Slug HOUSE / YITZHAK RABIN (1995)
Location WASHINGTON, DC
Format TVD
Date 11-6-1995
Archive Time 12:28
TRT 4:37
Supers Representative Robert Wise, D-WV Representative Pat Schroeder, D-CO Representative Joe Scarborugh, R-FL
Description Excerpts from floor statements by members of Congress honoring slain Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
Script (SUGGESTED TRANSCRIPT OF AUDIO) Unknown Speaker 00:00 Devon and act to designate a federal building in Baker City, Oregon in which the concurrence of the house is requested. Unknown Speaker 00:09 The chair will proceed with one minutes the gentleman from West Virginia has recognized. The gentleman from West Virginia is recognized for one minute. Unknown Speaker 00:18 Mr. Speaker today all Americans mourn, Rabin. And finally, if we can take anything out of this, as we have lost a world leader in the fight against extremism, let us remember then that we are each soldiers in that fight as well. And perhaps in a personal way, each to unto ourselves, we can dedicate ourselves to fighting extremism and rooting it out wherever it is not just in the Middle East, or wherever it is in our hearts in our lives. In our countries. That may be the ultimate memory and testimony for Yitzhak Rabin Unknown Speaker 00:52 addresses we try to deal with the senseless assassination of Zack remain. I think every one of us feels very helpless and impotent that we could not prevent such a senseless act by a killer, who killed one of the great soldiers and dreamers who was acting on peace. But I must remind all of us on this day, that while we could not prevent the killing, we can prevent the killing of his dream. And we must not let the feeling of helplessness and impotence descend upon us to not go forward with his dream of peace. Instead, it must rekindle the flame even brighter, even harder, and we must work even more vigorously to bring peace to that region that has known so little and to carry on the great dream and vision he had for that region, his home. Unknown Speaker 01:57 Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I have not in my 15 years as a member of this House felt sadder on taking the well. The murder of Hitchcock Rabin is one of the most despicable frightening acts we've witnessed. Because it was not simply the murder of one of the genuinely great men of our time, a man who having excelled in war, a war forced on him and forced on his country in a war they never wanted, but a war of self defense of war which they had to fight from the moment of their birth for their very existence. A man who having excelled that war, excelled at peace, a man who, rarely in politics, risked everything to make peace. We talk of those who stand up to their enemies, but that's easy to do. Standing up to your friends, to your brothers and sisters to the people to whom you've been cautious that takes a real kind of moral courage and discard for being did it. But it's not simply the murder of this great man. It's an assault on democracy Unknown Speaker 03:19 from Florida rise to address the house for an hour. Without objection, the gentleman from Florida is recognized for 60 minutes. Mr. Speaker, I also wish to express my condolences not only to Mr. Bean's family, but also to the people of Israel on behalf of my family and my district. That obviously was a devastating loss for a peace process. That began sometime back with the Camp David Accords, and has now seen two great leaders and visionaries, slain on behalf of peace in the Middle East. And how ironic it is that Anwar Sadat was assassinated by an extremist, an extremist Arab group that wanted to do anything they could to stop peace in the Middle East. And that now, the Prime Minister was slain by an extremist in his own land, which shows the divisions that run deep in this conflict that's been going on for for 1000s of years. But it is yet another step on a painful process towards peace, and one that we obviously must have and must press forward to secure
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