Edited sentence: " Juergensmeyer identified this as religious terrorism.A former combat soldier who had studied Jewish law, Amir stated that his decision to kill the prime minister was influenced by the opinions of militant rabbis that such an assassination would be justified by the "pursuer's decree" of Jewish legal precedence.According to Amir, allowing the Palestinian Authority to expand on the West Bank represented such a danger.Amir is today considered a martyr figure and national patriot by other religious militants, as "the man who stopped the train and delivered the nation of evils".Amir was associated with the radical Eyal movement, which had been greatly influenced by Kahanism.Jewish control over the sacred city is seen as essential to making this happen, and hence believers bitterly opposed the Oslo Peace Accord between Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat.Lerner and his colleagues believed that they were already at war, and therefore a death sentence was appropriate.Lerner felt that an assassination might not have been justified under the "pursuer's decree", as it couldn't be shown that Rabin intended to kill Jews, but had concluded that an execution was justified on other grounds - the illegitimacy of a Jewish and Arab coalition government, the "anti-Jewishness" of Rabin's policies, and his "treason" in giving away state land - a crime that in wartime is punishable by death.The principle morally obligates a Jew to halt someone who presents "a mortal danger" to Jews.They believe in a form of "Messianic Zionism" - that the prophesised Messiah will come to earth only after the Temple in Jerusalem is rebuilt and made ready for him.Yigal Amir carried out the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin on November 4th, 1995, and was quoted as saying he had "no regrets" and had "acted alone and on orders from God.Yoel Lerner and his colleagues had discussed a religiously justified assassination of Rabin months prior to the event, and felt that such an action was "morally justified"