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Wang was nominated for the prize this year, along with Israeli President Ezer Weizman and Pope John Paul...
CAIRO: Israeli President Ezer Weizman met with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak Monday in Cairo with relations between the two countries at an all time low since the two countries signed a historic peace agreement almost two decades ago. Weizman, who is a symbolic president with few political powers, made the trip despite strong criticism in Israel that he was overstepping the bounds of his ceremonial office. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said today that Weizman did not have the mandate to negotiate peace, but added that he hoped the meeting with Mubarak "will help bilateral relations." Weizman hopes the trip will...
...assiduously shunned Arafat and frozen plans to expand Palestinian self-rule, as promised in previously signed accords. Then Israeli intelligence agencies began warning that as a result, Arafat was fast losing standing among his people and that instability, perhaps violence, might follow. Finally, Israel's dovish President, Ezer Weizman, threatened publicly that if Netanyahu would not meet Arafat, he would. Netanyahu agreed to a summit...
...violence since the Israeli-Palestinian peace accord of September 1993. Citizens of Jerusalem were only just recovering from the city's first explosion when news broke of the second on the very same bus line--No. 18. Many wondered how the peace process could go on. Israeli President Ezer Weizman said, "It can't continue this way. We have to really stop and think...
...East: Another Bombing A Palestinian suicide bombing in the heart of Israel took the lives of 21 Israelis and wounded 64 others, sending waves of shock and fury through the country and threatening to derail the fragile peace process once and for all. Even the normally dovish Israeli President Ezer Weizman joined in the outrage, declaring that peace talks with the p.l.o. should be suspended. Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin held firm, however, saying ``There is no alternative.'' Some Cabinet members talked of erecting a fence, policed by border guards and dogs, that would keep West Bank Palestinians from entering Israel...