1.   If anyone bore moral guilt, some settlers argued, it was Rabin himself for pressing his peace initiative onto what they depicted as an unwilling population.

2.   Politicians and bureaucracies usually hate acknowledging moral guilt, even when a wrong was perpetrated decades earlier by a regime that no longer exists.

3.   The next step should be a separation of the legal wrong from moral guilt.

4.   Historians say that trial -- which sentenced both men to death in absentia -- established moral guilt but was a legal farce.