Mazuz, in an appearance at the Knesset Audit Committee today, rejected the connection that has been made over the past decade between the protest campaign against the Oslo process and Rabin's assassination.
The Attorney General said that the murder occurred not because of prior incitement, but as a result of a failure by the General Security Service (Shabak) to protect Rabin.
The Knesset committee session dealt with what some are calling incitement as the public protest over the expulsion plan heats up. Several Knesset Members accused Mazuz of turning a blind eye towards the invective against Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. Mazuz said in response that incitement did not lead to Yigal Amir's murder of Rabin nearly ten years ago.
MK Zahava Gal'on, of the extreme left-wing Meretz party, was incensed at Mazuz's remarks. She said that he is "hiding his head in the sand," and that incitement made its mark "via Yigal Amir's gun."
Another left-wing MK, Roman Bronfman, said that Mazuz is playing innocent – and even intimated that Israel's right-wing is like the Nazis. "If the legal system, with Mazuz at the helm, does not stop showing weakness towards the extreme right," Bronfman said, "Israel's fate will be like that of the Weimar Republic, and the liberal camp will find itself in work camps."