JERUSALEM (Reuter) - Yitzhak Rabin`s widow said on Thursday Israelis were once irrepressible "terrorists" and they should realise Yasser Arafat had little chance of uprooting Palestinian "terrorism". Speaking in bitter tones, Leah Rabin staked a clear claim to the legacy of the assassinated prime minister, striking an emotional chord the taciturn warrior-turned-peacemaker was never comfortable voicing. "I have doubt about how much terrorism can be uprooted," Rabin told Israel Radio before meeting U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, on a mission to breathe life into Middle East peace talks battered by suicide attacks. Britain conquered Palestine in 1917 and battled Arab and Jewish militants under a mandate which ended in 1948. Israel declared a state with Britain`s departure in May of that year and Arab states then attacked. Albright said she would demand from Arafat on Thursday a crack-down on Moslem militants. "It`s possible to try 100 percent. It doesn`t ensure 100 percent success," said Rabin, whose husband was gunned down in Tel Aviv in November 1995 by a right-wing religious Jew opposed to peace moves with the Palestinians. Asked if she thought Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wanted peace, Rabin told army radio: "Allow me to express doubt. He does everything against it." Netanyahu has said a clamp-down on militants by Arafat is a condition for carrying out peace deals. Rabin quoted a favourite phrase of her late husband. "Yitzhak would say, `We will make peace as if there is no terrorism. We will fight terrorism as if we are not taking steps towards peace`. That must be the approach," she said. Right-winger Netanyahu has rejected such a statement. There could be no peace, he said, while "terrorism" continued. Paying homage to Rabin, Albright and Mrs Rabin made a morning pilgrimage to his grave in Jerusalem. Albright, wearing black with a gold dove-of-peace pin given to her by Mrs Rabin, laid a wreath of red and yellow flowers. Arafat and Leah Rabin planned to sign a paper later on Thursday recommitting themselves to peace moves to mark the fourth anniversary of the Oslo peace accords. In a footnote to the peace anniversary, the trial began in Tel Aviv on Thursday of Margalit Har-Shefi, a friend of Rabin`s killer. She could go to jail for up to two years if convicted on charges of failing to prevent the assassination. Har-Shefi, a religious Jewish settler and university classmate of law student Yigal Amir, has said she never took seriously his "crazy plans" to kill Rabin. Amir gunned down the prime minister after a peace rally in Tel Aviv on November 4, 1995.