Word: arafats
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...followed throughout the occupied territories and in Israel. Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin vowed that the incident would not derail the peace process. Insisting that the rampage was the work of a lone "lunatic" -- though some victims say more than one gunman was involved -- Rabin phoned P.L.O. chairman Yasser Arafat with an apology: "I am ashamed as an Israeli that such a horrible incident took place here." Arafat called for disarming Israel's West Bank settlers...
...attack by Palestinians on a uniformed Israeli and opened fire. Nabil Shaath, the Palestine Liberation Organization's chief peace negotiator, claimed that eight worshippers were killed at the mosque entrance by Israeli soldiers. Even if true, these contentions would not necessarily point to the conspiracy that P.L.O. chief Yasser Arafat alleged; the few soldiers on the scene could simply have panicked as hundreds of frantic and bleeding Palestinians fled the carnage...
...ramifications of the Hebron massacre may not be quite what was anticipated. Arafat spoke with justifiable outrage and a hint of reluctance to continue negotiating, but he kept his options open. Yitzhak Rabin made a point of sounding genuinely horrified when he called Goldstein "deranged," and he extended uncharacteristically warm offerings to the Palestinians while imposing unheard-of measures against the settlers. Bill Clinton, with unusual decisiveness, made merit out of mayhem and invited both parties to resume their talks in Washington immediately. The Hebron rampage may end up achieving the opposite of what Goldstein intended: speeding up the Israeli...
...Arafat's aides think they deserve credit for even getting Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin to resolve most of the security issues, especially since his military advisers kept raising objections right up to the last minute. At 7 p.m. last Wednesday, when the Egyptians summoned journalists for the signing ceremony, Peres suddenly received a telephone call from Rabin. Army officers still had questions about the procedures for screening Palestinians coming across the Allenby Bridge from Jordan into the West Bank. Mubarak sent a personal message to Rabin urging flexibility, while Moussa offered a compromise that allowed a Palestinian policeman...
...Arafat's constituents are feeling let down, it is partly because the P.L.O. chairman raised their expectations too high when he made the original agreement with Israel in September. He told them then that he had achieved "sovereignty" in the Gaza Strip and Jericho, when in fact the accord provided only for limited self-rule. Now every missed deadline feeds distrust on each side about the good faith of the other and breeds violence among the disappointed citizens in the territories. While Palestinian factions fight one another in Gaza, a black market in guns is flourishing as ordinary citizens ! seek...