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...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...
...continued killing of Israelis inside the pre-1967 borders is especially damaging. No less a figure than President Ezer Weizman called for a halt in the implementation of the peace accords. It was a stunning pronouncement coming from so dovish a leader. Though several members of Rabin's Cabinet quietly backed the suggestion, the Prime Minister ignored it and insisted that the process of establishing Palestinian self-rule would go on. But his aides are skittish about the prospects for progress. Said Uri Savir, director-general of the Foreign Ministry: ``We need a profound change of direction to make...
...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...
...Pinchas Pistol, a Plaszow survivor who witnessed too much of the Nazis' random sadism. "Every time I see one, the memories come back, and I can't sleep or work." Yet he went, as did scores of other Holocaust survivors, as well as Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and President Ezer Weizman...
...HAWK, THE OTHER A DOVE. EACH HAS NOW soared to great political heights in Israel. Former Deputy Foreign Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, 43, was elected chief of the opposition Likud bloc, and ultraleftist politician Ezer ) Weizman, 68, was chosen by the Knesset to be Israel's next President, a largely ceremonial post...