Yigal Amir's family "has no part or inheritance with the people of Israel," Knesset Speaker Dalia Itzik (Kadima) told the Knesset Wednesday night in a special session in memory of Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin." Your G-d is not ours," she charged in a bitterly sharp speech.

She also called on the media to stop giving publicity to efforts to work for the release of Amir, who is serving a life prison term for killing Rabin 12 years ago. She argued that disseminating news of the campaign has nothing to do with the freedom of expression or democracy.
 
"Drop Amir into the trashcan of history," the Speaker declared. "The media's chasing after him and his family only helps the flow of oxygen to crime."