(13 Nov 2005)
Tel Aviv, Israel
1. Wide shot of memorial rally to honour assassinated Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin
2. Various of Israelis standing in rally
3. Israeli holding poster
4. People holding flags
5. More of rally
Jerusalem
6. Wide of former US President Bill Clinton shaking hand with crowd
7. Clinton going on stage to talk
8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Bill Clinton, Former US President
"It has been unbelievably 10 years since that dark day when we lost Yitzhak Rabin, and what I still believe was our best chance for a comprehensive and lasting peace. Not a week has gone by in those 10 years when I have not thought of him, his family, his allies, Israel's struggle. It has been five years since I left office and since Mr Arafat committed what I consider to be a colossal historical blunder in walking away from the peace proposal I made at that time which the then-Prime Minister Mr Barak accepted. It was the last chance we had at that... up to this point, for a comprehensive peace."
9. Cutaway to crowd
10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Bill Clinton, Former US President
"In the region we have seen the election of Abu Mazen, if I may without disrespect continue to call him that, on a commitment, a platform for peace and the end of terror and fighting terror. We have seen, as you said, President Bush's road map and the acceptance of that road map by Israel. We have seen two efforts from Israeli and Palestinian citizens to flesh out the details of what a comprehensive peace might look like."
11. End shot Clinton
STORYLINE:
Israelis in the capital Tel Aviv on Saturday marked the 10th anniversary of the assassination of then-prime minister and architect of peace, Yitzhak Rabin.
Huge crowds gathered for a memorial rally in homage to Rabin, one of many events commemorating him.
Tens of thousands of people were expected to attend the evening rally in Rabin Square, the very place where Rabin was gunned down a decade ago by an ultra nationalist Jew after a massive peace rally.
Scores of VIPs from Israel and abroad were to attend the memorial, among them former U.S. President Bill Clinton, his wife, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, and their daughter, Chelsea.
Vice-Premier Shimon Peres, who shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Rabin and Yasser Arafat for forging the 1993 interim peace accord between Israel and the Palestinians, was due to speak at the rally along with Clinton, who brokered the agreement.
Earlier Clinton said with Rabin's death "we lost.... what I still believe was our best chance for a comprehensive and lasting peace."
"Not a week has gone by in those 10 years when I have not thought of him, his family, his allies, Israel's struggle," he said.
Speaking at an academic conference in Jerusalem, Clinton paid homage to the man and his achievements in negotiating peace with the Palestinians.
He also spoke of further attempts to negotiate peace in the region.
"In the region we have seen the election of Abu Mazen, if I may without disrespect continue to call him that, on a commitment, a platform for peace and the end of terror and fighting terror. We have seen, as you said, President Bush's road map and the acceptance of that road map by Israel. We have seen two efforts from Israeli and Palestinian citizens to flesh out the details of what a comprehensive peace might look like."
Rabin was assassinated as he left a peace rally on November 4, 1995, by Yigal Amir, an extremist Jew who considered him a traitor for making concessions to the Palestinians.
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