Senator Kennedy Honored Rabin

David Streeter — August 28, 2009 – 11:28 am | Congress | Democrats | Foreign Policy | Israel Comments (0) Add a comment

In 1995, the late Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA) honored slain Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin with dirt from his brother, President John F. Kennedy’s grave. Mitchell Schwartz, a public affairs assistant to President Bill Clinton’s administration recounts in The Washington Post: 

“Senator Kennedy saw me and said, ‘Are you with the administration?’ I said, ‘Yes, I’m doing advance here.’ He said, ‘Do you speak Hebrew?’ I said, ‘Yes, can I help you?’ He pulled out a bag of dirt and said, ‘I have dirt from my brother’s grave site, and I’d like to give it to Mrs. Rabin.’ It was so moving it brings me to tears, but he never told anyone about it. Nobody knew anything about it.”

 

Leonard Fein of Americans for Peace Now also wrote something similar in The Forward.

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