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...Rabin, the Labor Party government and the peace plan have disappeared from Israeli auto bumpers, windows and walls. Some of the most militant Zionist groups hastened to condemn Rabin's assassin, Yigal Amir, and anyone who applauded his bloody act. The Council of Jewish Settlements in Judea, Samaria and Gaza even passed a resolution pledging to "silence those voices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NO PEACE AT HOME | 11/20/1995 | See Source »

Then comes the hard part. By next May, Peres must begin negotiating the final settlement with the Palestinians. That will raise all the most explosive questions, such as those about the permanent status of the West Bank and Gaza Strip: Full-fledged Palestinian state? Federation with Jordan? Autonomous entity? And about Jerusalem: United capital of Israel or some sort of divided city? And about the fate of the Jewish settlers in what will be Palestinian territory. And about the right or nonright of Palestinian refugees to return to Israel and reclaim property there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NO PEACE AT HOME | 11/20/1995 | See Source »

...last Saturday, senior correspondent Scott MacLeod met with Yasser Arafat in his Gaza headquarters for a one-hour interview. Arafat, sitting under a poster of Jerusalem, seemed drained of energy, shocked and worried. Excerpts: TIME: It was a terrible week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WE BECAME MORE THAN FRIENDS | 11/20/1995 | See Source »

AMERICANS HAVE AN UNFORTUNATE TENDENCY TO Think "ISLAMIC" or "Arab" when they hear the word terrorist. In Israel people know better: violent, hate-filled Jewish groups have been part of the political landscape there since Israel seized the Sinai, West Bank and Gaza Strip during the Six-Day War in 1967. They have insisted that these lands must be retained as part of Israel's biblical birthright--by violence if necessary. And they consider any Jew who opposes them a traitor to the race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ROOTS OF ISRAELI EXTREMISM | 11/13/1995 | See Source »

...another Kach offshoot, to which Amir has been linked, is a tiny organization based at Tel Aviv's Bar Ilan University. Its activities tend toward threats and harassment rather than outright violence. But its members, like most of the 15,000 or so extremists in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, tend to believe that any act, including murder, is justified if it thwarts the peace process. Says University of Pennsylvania political scientist Ian Lustick, an expert on Jewish fundamentalism: "It's the equivalent of the right-wing milieu that led to the Oklahoma City bombing." That event shook Americans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ROOTS OF ISRAELI EXTREMISM | 11/13/1995 | See Source »

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