Word: covenanter
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Is he right? Most scholars don't think so, but one crucial discovery - an independent, ancient chronicle of Abraham's wanderings, perhaps - could change their minds in an instant. Similarly, a single discovery could erase all doubts about the Exodus or the sacking of Jericho or just about anything else...
Yet the insistence with which Rabin's mourners proclaimed that the peace process must not be buried alongside him betrayed their fear that eventually it might be. Not soon, certainly. The timetable for the next several months has been set by agreements already signed, and neither side has any reason...
"The Covenant had been written before my election to the PLO," Arafat said, adding that peace efforts have changed anti-Israel attitudes.
Although the phrase still exists in the Covenant, Arafat said he has made efforts to change attitudes toward Israel.
"I will not deceive you," Arafat added. "I will not cancel what has been written in the Covenant. We will make amendments," he said, likening the process to the U.S. system of Constitutional amendments.