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     MER - It is trauma or guilt that has overtaken Leah Rabin, wife and partner of assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin? A few months ago she was quoted not only defending Yasser Arafat but also indicating she now felt he was "like a family member".  Now she has publicly acknowledged that her husband and mainstream Israelis were "terrorists" as well when their political goals were unaccepted.
     The dilemma for Mrs. Rabin is this:  Now that she has begun to see some of the realities she spent her life hiding from, shouldn't she take the next logical steps and acknowledge the following:
     1) It's time to call for a fully sovereign Palestinian State - not an Apartheid-style collaboration.
     2) It's time to call for discussions about compensation and reparations for the Palestinians.
     3) It's time to acknowledge that many current Israeli policies are essentially "State terrorism".
     4) It's time to call for opening negotiations with Hamas, today's "terrorists", and releasing Hamas Leader Sheik Ahmed Yassin from prison.
     If only Mrs. Rabin and others in Israel would take these steps today, rather than 30 or 40 years too late! Then terrorism would lose its rationale and its support.
Then the road to a real and just and lasting peace would be open.
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