Prime Minister Shimon Peres has said he is committed to the peace process set in motion by his predecessor Yitzhak Rabin, who was assassinated in November.
The most extreme members of this camp have argued that the killing of opponents is sometimes permissible that was the claim of the religious student who in 1995 assassinated Yitzhak Rabin, a former prime minister and architect of a plan to solve Israel's conflict with the Palestinians.
Even Dalia Rabin-Pelossof, the Labour Party deputy defence minister and daughter of Yitzhak Rabin, an assassinated prime minister and peacemaker, suggested on January 21st that the government (of which she is a fairly central member) may have missed an opportunity to move from violence to negotiations by failing to capitalise on the relative calm that prevailed between mid-December and early January.