Israeli Defence Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer speaks at opening of the
Israeli Labour Party convention against the backdrop of a picture of
Yitzhak Rabin, the late Israeli prime minister and Labour Party leader
July 1, 2002. Rabin was assassinated in 1995 by an ultranationalist Jew
opposed to his peacemaking with the Palestinians. In a speech at the
convention, Ben-Eliezer said an establishment of a Palestinian state
should be of supreme interest for Israel. REUTERS/Havakuk Levison
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