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A Memorial to Yitzhak Rabin.<br />
When I heard about the murder of Yitzhak Rabin, I sat, motionless for a very long time.<br />
A Jew that lives in Diaspora can only know what he is told by the news, and so we had to<br />
learn about what happened to Rabin through the information that we gained from them.<br />
But Rabin’s greatness exceeded that which the news shared with us. Today I want to<br />
remember Rabin as the man those closely acquainted with him knew him. They knew<br />
and loved him as the man who contributed a lot to the country prior to the existence of<br />
the State of Israel. He was a hero of politics. Rabin was truly a great man as he had the<br />
power to make way for peace. He was like a father who couldn’t bare to see his children<br />
suffer. As Rabin said in Washington: “It’s not easy for families to live with violence,<br />
terror and war, and the pain never heals. We must try and stop the hatred so that our<br />
children, and our children’s children will not have to live in a state of war. We came to<br />
promise their lives and to release the sadness and the painful memories of the past and to<br />
pray for peace.”<br />
Rabin did not just speak of peace, he dedicated his life to its pursuit.. Not only Israelis<br />
and Arabs, but all the world will sit and see Rabin as a leader that was a symbol of peace<br />
in the Middle East. He was very close to seeing his dream come true, and today we must<br />
remember that Rabin gave his life to the fulfillment of this goal. I think that what would<br />
please Rabin as he watches over us from above, would be that people and leaders should<br />
continue what he began and we should fight, like he fought, for peace. I also think that as<br />
students we have a responsibility to remember Rabin, and what he represented.<br />
Sometimes it is easy to forget and to return to a state of war and violence, in honor of<br />
Rabin we must not dessert and forget the dream that he had. His dream will allow the<br />
youngsters that sit here today, to one day live in a country at peace. I want to end by<br />
saying thank you to Rabin and the dream that he began, and to say to him, that even a<br />
year after he left us, a leader such as him is still missed by the world. Thank you.
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