Word: arafats
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...drama in which he took part, this, perhaps, is the one for which Rabin will be best remembered. As he stepped onto the lawn, he was clearly wrestling with the fact that by events of his own making, he was now being asked to shake the hand of Yasser Arafat, a man Israelis had reviled for decades for his role in planning, financing or inspiring hundreds of attacks on Jewish men, women and children. But despite the setting and the players and the audience (the world), perhaps what was most remarkable about the occasion was the expression on Rabin...
...grimaced, he swallowed, he hesitated--and then, glumly, reluctantly, he took Arafat by the hand. Here he was making history, yet he could not simply play the euphoric part that the TV cameras were assigning him. He was, it seemed, performing a difficult but necessary chore. Typically, he made no effort to make his feelings appear anything other than the conflicted jumble they undoubtedly were. "Of all the hands in the world, it was not the hand I wanted or even dreamed of touching," he said, attesting to the fact that to achieve peace, one must sometimes swallow hard. There...
...Amir, was arrested on the spot. He reportedly said he acted alone, although he has been linked to a tiny extremist group called Eyal, which fiercely rejects Rabin's participation in peace negotiations with the Palestine Liberation Organization. "I am very sad and very shocked," said P.L.O. leader Yasser Arafat. President Clinton, who called Rabin "a martyr for his nation's peace," will attend Monday's funeral. The Israeli Cabinet immediately named Foreign Minister Shimon Peres acting Prime Minister. A government spokesman vowed "to press ahead with the peace process...
When we decided to explore [peace] with Arafat, frankly, he was in poor shape. As a result of the crisis in the gulf, he lost $400 million to $500 million of revenue. He was isolated even in the Arab world...
...terror: If you ask me what is the obstacle to the implementation [of the peace plan], it is terror. Arafat stopped the terrorism by the p.l.o. No Israeli has been killed by them since the end of 1992. Terror is carried out mainly by the Hamas and the Islamic Jihad with the clear purpose of undermining the peace process. We face a unique kind of terrorism--the suicidal terror mission. There is no deterrent to a person who goes with high explosives in his car or in his bag and explodes himself. We find remnants of his body. Sometimes...