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...always believed that most of the people want peace and are ready to take a risk for it." --The late Yitchak Robin, addressing a peace rally of more than 100,000 people in Tel Aviv, as quoted in the New York Times...
Members of the Harvard community reacted in stunned disbelief this weekend to the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzak Rabin, who was shot and killed by a right-wing law student at a peace rally in Tel Aviv Saturday...
...Rabin was reelected Prime Minister in 1992. "There are no good wars," Rabin wrote in his memoirs. Jerusalem Bureau Chief Lisa Beyer reports: "One of Rabin's main jobs during the 1948 war was to help break the Arab blockade of Jerusalem and to keep the road to Tel Aviv open and safe for Israeli convoys. For this purpose, the Harel brigade was formed, with Rabin at its command, and by the time the fighting was done, 70 percent of its members had perished. To this day, the government maintains the rusted remains of the convoys that didn't make...
...WOULD ASK CHIRAC, "EXACTLY FOR whom does France need a nuclear deterrent?" Surely, the problems of rampant terrorism and growing public distaste for your political hubris cannot be affected by such tactics. The world does not need a Western Vladimir Zhirinovsky. MICHAEL ZUCKER Tel Aviv Via E-mail...
...surrendered about an hour after the plane landed at Ovda Airforce Base in Israel's southern Negev Desert. (Jordan and Saudi Arabia both refused the hijacker's requests to land in those countries.) Allis says the man was also turned down at Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv because Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin feared the hijacking might be a cover for a suicide attack. No passengers were hurt...