Word: arafats
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Yasser Arafat also seized the occasion to visit for the first time the country he had so long preached unrelenting war against. The Israelis refused to invite the Palestine Liberation Organization chief to Rabin's funeral. But an Israeli military helicopter flew him into Tel Aviv Thursday night to pay a condolence call at Leah Rabin's apartment. Arafat told Mrs. Rabin that her husband was a "hero of peace" and a "dear friend." She responded that "Yitzhak saw in you, Mr. Arafat, a partner in making peace." If tact forbade either to mention what both well knew--that Rabin...
...will finish pulling Israeli troops out of five of the West Bank Palestinian towns by year's end (excluding Hebron, where they must be out by March). That is to be followed by elections Jan. 20 for a new self-governing Palestinian Authority in the no-longer-occupied territories. Arafat is working very hard to get the extremist Hamas movement into switching from suicide bombings to balloting, something he needs badly to shore up his credibility and the authority of the newly elected governing council. But nothing is final. Two months after the voting, Arafat has promised, he will...
...very big gamble. Though Rabin's martyrdom has given the peace process a boost, says a U.S. Pentagon official, "the question is, will it outlast the next Palestinian car bomb that kills Israelis? Nobody knows." Earlier terrorist attacks that have killed 150 Israelis since the original Rabin-Arafat accord in September 1993 did more than anything else to turn almost half the Israeli public against those accords...
...varies from person to person," he said. For example, the Department of State's Office of Diplomatic Security provided extra protection for Arafat. But since Rabin was a head of state, the U.S. Secret Service replaced the State Department in security plans...
Singer said that he could not recall an event with greater security than Arafat's visit--not even for Vice President Al Gore '69 or other visiting dignitaries like former Soviet Prime Minister Mikhail Gorbachev...