[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 175 (Tuesday, November 7, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H11788]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    YITZHAK RABIN: WARRIOR FOR PEACE

  (Mr. LEWIS of Georgia asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks and include 
extraneous material.)
  Mr. LEWIS of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I have just returned from Israel, 
where I attended the funeral of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
  Today our condolences and our hearts go out to the people and friends 
of Israel, the Rabin family, and lovers of peace everywhere.
  Prime Minister Rabin was a great man, a great statesman, and a great 
peacemaker. He lived his life protecting the people of Israel and gave 
his life trying to bring an end to the cycle of violence that has 
plagued his nation. He was a warrior for peace and that will be his 
legacy. No assassin's bullet can extinguish the flame, the dream, that 
Yitzhak Rabin ignited in the hearts and minds of his people. Yitzhak 
Rabin may no longer be with us, but his dream for a safe, secure 
Israel, an Israel at peace with itself and its neighbors, lives on.
  We have all lost a great leader, a great man, a man of peace. Bless 
him.

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