but also did not concern leah rabin largely felt that while one person was the gunman, there was incitement against rabin in the years leading up to the assassination by the right and the extreme right especially. people referred to rabin regularly as a murderer in street protests and held up signs of rabin dressed in a nazi uniform in one instance. for the family the culprit is not just amir, but a larger section of the right wing that incited against the israeli leader. >> host: amir's family, his brother is releasedded. what's he doing today? >> guest: so he was released a little more than two years ago and he was studying physics at the time. he was a university student studying physics in 1995. spent 17 years in prison and largely returned to the life he had left. so he's back in his home back in the same room that he shared with his brother where they plotted the murder, back to studying. i think it's electrical engineering. and now -- and i think one of the things that surprised me was the extent to which he and the rest of the amir family, and they're recognized on the street, they

but also did not -- leah rabin felt and this is largely true of the rabin family, that while amir, the shooter was the gunman, there was a broader campaign of incitement against rabin in the years leading up to the assassination by the right and the extreme right especially. people referred to rabin regularly as a murderer in street protests and held up signs of rabin dressed in a cas sia or dressed in a nazi uniform in one instance. for the family, the culprit not just amir, but a larger segment of the right wing that incited against the israeli leader. >> host: amir's family, his brother was released. what's he doing today? >> guest: so he was released a little more than two years ago and he was studying physics at time. he was a university student studying physics in 1995, spent 17 years in prison and largely returned to the life he had left. is so he's back that his home back in the same room that he shared with his brother where they plotted the murder, back to studying i think it's electrical engineering, and now -- and i think one of the thing that surprised me was the extent to

to my amazement, his widow, leah rabin, invited us to their apartment the next day. so strong. >> do you in any way blame the mainstream opposition, the conservatives, the likud party? >> yes. surely i blame. if you ever heard their speeches in the knesset you would understand what i mean. we are sending the country down the drain. there will be no israel after this peace agreement. i mean, this was not right. >> reporter: years later another memorable interview, far different subject. >> did you bet on baseball? >> yes, i did. and that was my mistake, not coming clean a lot earlier. i owe baseball. baseball don't owe me a damn thing. i owe baseball. >> reporter: columbine, 1999. >> once again a massacre in a small-town high school. >> when they first came in they said all the jocks please stand up. and nobody stood up. >> did it take a minute to sink in what was happening? >> i was froze. i couldn't move at all. >> reporter: and years later it was a college campus, virginia tech. >> and how would you describe his facial expression and his demeanor? >> he was blank.

rabine was assassinated on november 4th, 1995, by a jewish fanatic, and rabine's widow, leah, blamed netanyahu and his supporters for her husband's murder. netanyahu first became prime minister in 1996, has spent his political career nurturing jewish extremists, including during the 1948 war that established the state of israel. albert einstein, hannah eront, sydney hook and other jewish intellectuals described the party in a statement published in the new york times as a political party closely in its organization, methods, political philosophy, and social appeal to nazi and fascist parties. there has always been a strain of jewish fascism within the zionist project. now it is taken control of the state of israel. the left is no longer capable of overcoming the toxic ultra-nationalism that has evolved here. zev sternhill a holocaust survivor and israel's foremost authority on fascism warned in 2018, the kind whose european strain almost wiped out majority of the... are the zionist versions of blood and soil. jewish supremacy is sanctified by god, as is the slaughter of palestinians,