Word: arafats
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Arab world. But none of us has shown the capabilities to deal with the challenges. I feel that Israel is able to focus on only one subject at a time. Maybe that is the reason for the delays on the other tracks. I hope that we will see Arafat back on Palestinian soil as soon as possible. But the sad part was that an agreement ((between Israel and the P.L.O.)) was made without filling in all the details. As a result, there has been a delay. In the meantime some terrible things have happened in the region...
...Israeli police who until recently slept there had already moved into other, more comfortable quarters downtown. The Israel Defense Forces fidgeted, guns at the ready, glancing at their watches as they eyed the restive crowd. Citing snags in the Cairo negotiations between Israel and the P.L.O., Yasser Arafat's representative sent word at the last minute that he could not accept the building. When the crowd learned this, the waiting suddenly ended. "Down with Israel! . . . Long live the P.L.O.! . . . Allahu Akbar!" they shouted, as boys scaled the barrier to plant a Palestinian flag on top of the fence...
...unmet deadlines were punctuated with more violence, more revenge. Within an hour of the canceled Gaza ceremony, 90 miles away in northern Israel, a 25-year-old Palestinian blew up seven Israelis in a suicide attack in the town of Afula. The killer, a member of the anti-Arafat Islamic movement Hamas, detonated his car bomb alongside an Israeli bus as passengers, many of them teenagers, were boarding. Hamas promised that the attack would be the first of five in retaliation for February's rampage by an Israeli settler at the mosque in Hebron. On Thursday, a Palestinian gunman from...
...months since Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin shook hands on the White House lawn, political violence in the occupied territories and Israel has claimed the lives of 150 Palestinians and 34 Israelis. Says Yechiel Leiter, spokesman for the Yesha Council, the main lobby group for Israeli settlers in the occupied territories: "This is not going in the direction of peace. Peace is less violence, not more." That is perhaps the only point on which settlers and Palestinians agree. Short of a miracle, the April 13 deadline for Israeli withdrawal from Jericho and the Gaza Strip and commencement of limited Palestinian self...
...after the attacks, Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres said that Israel "will do whatever [it] can to continue the peace momentum." Meanwhile, Yasser Arafat passed on a chance to publicly condemn the attacks, and under extreme pressure, more than two days after the Afula incident, the PLO simply stated that it "expresses its regrets for the incident which took place in Afula and which cost the life of a number of citizens." After the massacre, Yitzhak Rabin had a very different reaction: "As a Jew, as an Israeli, I am shamed by the disgrace imposed upon us by a degenerate...