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Poll: 30 percent of Israelis support pardon for Yigal Amir
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Published: 27.10.06, 10:24
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31. Send him to Guantanamo
Paul ,   Austin, TX   (10.27.06)
Amir should be left to rot.
32. Never forget, never forgive
Paolo Ortenzi ,   Rome, Italy   (10.27.06)
He should remain in jail and rotten there. Too bad the Israelis have so few memory of what it meant Rabin's death. Every time I passed by Kikar Rabin, in TA, it is IMPOSSIBLE for me to dissociate my mind from that evening when Rabin was killed. And probably I will never forget. Since there will be in Israel someone able to remember, Amir must be kept in jail.
33. This is why Israel needs death penalty for all terrorists
Avi ,   boston   (10.27.06)
34. To all who love this country
Antonio ,   Haifa   (10.27.06)
Igal Amir is a savior, who saved us from complete destruction at the hands on a despicable madman. He should've been pardoned years ago.
35. A human being
Aviva   (10.27.06)
He did what he thought was right. He did it not out of personal feelings but for the whole of Israel. I feel that he should be pardoned eventually. Hardened unrepentent killers are let free these days so someone like Yigal Amir is worthy of redemption in this world.
36. Mr YIGAL AMIR ....NEES TO BE SENT FREE
Gillbeto ,   Firenze Italy..   (10.27.06)
Why not free him?? The MossaD CAN LEARN HOW TO USE,,,,PERFACT kILLER...HE SIS GOOD......HE KILLED THE PRIME MINISTER ON TIME,,,,,,,I f not The Golan wpuld have been given to sirya.....And all west bank to Mr Arafat The bucher.....And what Israel would have got?//Just Hate...And Missile's,,,,,,,,,from them that is all///he did well killing the prime Minister on time...just before it was too late.........I tell you a small story....I was traveling in A rented car in Israel....before the killing....i did take hikers......all of them been talking that the prime minister must be killed.....The job is done....The bou have paid the price....Now he can help MOSSAD...USE HIM TO KILL ,,,N assaralla,,,,,belive me he will do it,,,,,Gillberto
37. Agree with #27, Shabak did it
Itzik ,   Haifa   (10.27.06)
Agree.
38. So?
Arthur ,   San Francisco   (10.27.06)
He stopped a runaway suicidal man who was willing to sacrifice his countryman for an illusory peace. Do you remember Oslo? Do you remember a harvest of the Jewish lives it brought? Set Igal free.
39. READ THE POLL- the numbers ynet shows are deceptive
Arie ,   Afula   (10.27.06)
40. #11-another conspiracy theory-even after he admits murder
Arie ,   Afula   (10.27.06)
41. FREE YIGAL AMIR - HE DID NOT KILL RABIN -
YB ,   NJ   (10.27.06)
WATCH THIS http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3730438644581633961&q=barry+chamish&hl=en You cant makke this up, Berry might be crazy, but the evidence is there. I use to think that Yigal should rot in jail However I want him FREE and the real killers should ROT in JAIL.
42. Is this country insane?! He killed your PM stupid.
CanadaICE ,   London, Canada   (10.27.06)
43. To #4 right wing Israeli
Mike ,   Israel   (10.27.06)
YOu say you despise the labour party and socialism as a whole but yet most of your "right wing Israelis" take social benifits from the goverment dont serve in the army, dont work sit at home and wait for the end of the month check fromt he Goverment. How would you lazy people survive if it were not for the help of those checks?
44. #13 Steve fro the USA
Mike ,   Israel   (10.27.06)
You say a country of "murderes and hate" wow thats some kind of statement comeing from a country that has around 40,000 murders a year. You got to be kidding us. Shut up you have no idea what your talking about.
45. Hang him now then hes free.
Mike ,   Israel   (10.27.06)
46. If true, a sad testament to the foolishness of the public
Stephanie London ,   Sharon, CT   (10.27.06)
While one can anguish over the foolishness of the public generally, the staggering stupidity and insensibility of the religious community, if the report be correct, is still more troubling. Moral guidance is supposed to come from people who think that one can get a "pass" for killing a prime minister????
47. Israel and the US actually do have something in common!
Ellen Prescott ,   Southsea, Hampshire   (10.27.06)
They both are so violent that they assassinate their leaders! Thankfully, I live in a more civilised and nonviolent type of country.
48. Should've got death sentence
Nora ,   Israel   (10.27.06)
49. Truth
Birdi ,   Israel   (10.27.06)
He,Yigal,pulled the trigger,he shot & murdered Rabin in cold blood.Stop all the bull here.Yigal needs to stay in jail for life. Amen !!
50. no.18
ami ,   israel   (10.27.06)
with heros like this one i can emagine your standards of life
51. I support a pardon down the road
RobertK ,   Jerusalem   (10.27.06)
I support a pardon for Amir sometime in the future, accompanied by an official acknowledgment by the Israeli govt. and society that something horrible happened in the Oslo years: the Israeli govt. allowed citizens to be mass-murdered. Rabin, Peres, et al. knew that Arafat was behind the terror attacks, and systematically whitewashed and defended him so as to keep him in power. They didn't let the army defend us effectively against the attacks because they thought it would hurt the "peace process." They preferred to let us get killed, dozens of us. Such aggravated circumstances mitigate the fact that a desperate citizen assassinated the prime minister. Such an act can't be allowed because it means chaos, but someone who focuses only on the horror of the assassination and not on the horror of the policy that Rabin and his govt. took, is missing the story and refusing to look at the moral complexity.
52. Thou shall not kill
Tamara ,   Israel   (10.27.06)
Last time I checked, one of the ten commandments was 'Thou shall not kill' that means no killing even if you disagree with the politics of an individual and your Rabbi tells you to. Life in prison means his whole life.
53. Disgrace
Liz   (10.27.06)
You have GOT TO be joking............... my god this country and its morality is going down the toilet so fast.... But why did Yediot have to do the stupid poll anyway? Who the f... cares?
54. PARDON me?
MarlĂȘne ,   Bab, FRANCE   (10.27.06)
It's ONLY been 11 years!
55. If the government frees Kuntar and thousands of
Uziel   (10.27.06)
terrorists. They must pardon Amir and Weisgan.
56. What has happened to this country...
Who needs a legal ,   system like ours??   (10.27.06)
We get people requesting to pardon the president for rape..we get a man who kills 2 people "by accident" who gets just over a year...we get members of the knesset who get caught taking bribes and corruption, who have inquirys that go on for so long, that by the time they want to sentence them the public has already forgotten what they did and so the case is usually closed for lack of public interest. If Igal Amir murdered P.M. Rabin, then he should remain in jail till his last days. Just because we dont have the death penalty doesnt mean he should go scott free. This country is starting to look worse by the minute...G-d help us all!!
57. #6: Get a life, loser.
Michael Steiner   (10.27.06)
58. to aviva
darryl ,   israel   (10.27.06)
tell me are you pshyco you and him should be held in a cell together i dont believe your talkback are you from cloud cuckoo land
59. A view from America.
Bob ,   Chicago   (10.27.06)
It is true that Rabin killed 4 Jews in cold blood. They were almost dead when he killed them for no reason. He should had been arrested then. Why Peres and co. killed him in 1996 is not absolutely clear to me.
60. KILLER'RELEASE??
D.RUBAT ,   MONTREAL CANADA   (10.27.06)
I AGREE WITH RABIN'S GRANDSON YUVAL RABIN : YIGAL AMIR SHOULD ROT IN PRISON THE REST OF HIS LIFE . PERIOD
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