An increasingly polarized Israel Tuesday marked the second anniversary of Yitzhak Rabin's assassination, with his supporters and foes accusing each other of incitement.
Peace activists tracked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with protest vigils, chanting "Bibi resign, Israel deserves better."Israel's peace camp holds Netanyahu partially responsible for Rabin's assassination by an ultranationalist Jew, saying that as opposition leader Netanyahu fomented hatred against his predecessor over his land-for-peace agreements with the Palestinians.
"You killed and then you inherited," read an anti-Netanyahu wall slogan near the Tel Aviv square where Rabin was gunned down by Yigal Amir after a Nov. 4, 1995, peace rally.
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat fondly remembered Rabin, who spent much of his life fighting the Palestinians before signing a breakthrough peace accord in 1993.
"We cannot forget that we both had started the peace of the brave. Now we have to remember him, remember that we lost him," Arafat said.
When Netanyahu arrived to address high school students in the southern desert town of Beersheba, 100 Peace Now members waited outside the auditorium, carrying signs reading: "Now they are killing peace, too."
Four students holding Rabin posters stood up and yelled, "It's the fourth of November. Have you forgotten?" Other students chanted "Bibi, Bibi" to support him.