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More than anything else, Yitzhak Rabin's life can be seen as an object lesson in dugri. When Rabin spoke, whether he was being cold or sentimental, he said what he meant. He once expressed a wish that the Gaza Strip would simply drop into the sea and disappear. But he also possessed a simple, human eloquence. Signing the Oslo accords at the Washington ceremony, he addressed the Palestinians with the following words: "We, like you, are people who want to build a home, to plant a tree, to love, live side by side with you--in dignity, in empathy...
...that incident." In Lebanon, many cheered Rabin's death. Palestinian refugees forced over the past several decades from Israel burned the Israeli flag and an effigy of the Israeli Prime Minister even as he was buried. Mohammed Zahhar, a leader of Hamas, told an Associated Press reporter in Gaza: "He practiced all forms of violence against us. I'm joyful because he was punished...
Palestinian fundamentalists greeted the news of Rabin's assassination, MacLeod reports. In Lebanon, PLO members fired guns into the air in celebration. Mohammed Zahhar, a leader of Hamas, told an Associated Press reporter in Gaza: "He practiced all forms of violence against us. I'm joyful because he was punished." Ramadan Abdallah Shallah, the new leader of Islamic Jihad who succeeded assassinated leader Fathi Shiqaqi, told Reuters in Damascus, Syria: "I am not sorry for the killing of Rabin who is the world's number one terrorist. What if the world lost one of the criminals and killers...
Israel expelled several thousand Palestinian workers to the West Bank and the Gaza Strip today and tightened travel restrictions on Palestinians, in an attempt to prevent revenge terrorist attacks after last week's assassination of Fathi Shakaki, the leader of the Islamic Jihad. "The fact that the Israelis are adopting such tough measures indicates that there is extremely serious concern of a terrorist response on Israel," reports TIME's Jamil Hamad from the West Bank. "I fear, however, that the Israelis are underestimating the effect of the restrictions themselves on Palestinians. These measures may do more harm than good: they...
...talk will be on] the Middle East peace process and where it goes from here, [and] the Palestinian perspective on the peace process and the future of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip," Singer said...