Word: arafats
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...reaction to the surreal sight of Rabin shaking hands with PLO leader Yassir Arafat that day was very different. We, like most Israelis, knew of Arafat's murderous history of terrorism, and his tactics of choosing children as targets and shopping malls as battlefields...
Members of the Israeli Likud opposition party have characterized Arafat as a man who has "more Jewish blood on his hands then anyone since Adolf Hitler." These claims accurately reflect the revulsion long felt for Arafat by Israelis and Jews cognizant of his violent past. If peace is to be made in the Middle East, Arafat must replace these memories of terror with new realities of conciliation...
Rabin was visibly distressed as he shook Arafat's eager hand. The Prime Minister began his remarks that day by calling the signing "not so easy" for himself or for the Jewish people in the Diaspora, who, he said, were "watching with great hope and apprehension...
Assad's performance in Geneva may help speed talks between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization on bringing Palestinian rule to Jericho and the Gaza Strip. Peres and P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat were due to meet again at the end of last week in Norway. And if Syria is back on track, Jordan cannot be far behind. Clinton, Assad and Rabin do agree on one point: they would like 1994 to be the year for a breakthrough on peace in the whole Middle East...
Pessimists are worried that Israel may come to see as pointless further concessions to an organization that is increasingly fractious. Arafat's task, as usual, will be to prove the pessimists wrong...