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...security, he chuckles. ''I only fear God.'' Visitors to Yitzhak Rabin's modest office in western Jerusalem expect their sessions with him to be strictly business. He is known to be abrupt, omitting from such visits so much as hello or goodbye. The office is hectic. Chants of angry Jewish settlers camped outside to protest the peace agreement fade in and out. A delegation of conservative Knesset members argue against giving weapons to the future Palestinian police force. But Rabin is calm, almost relaxed. Those who know him well say that since he signed the Declaration of Principles with Arafat...
...grasp the import of the uprising. As early as February 1988, Rabin was telling Labor Party activists, ''I've learned something in the past 2 1/2 months -- among other things that you can't rule by force over 1.5 million Palestinians.'' Annexing the occupied territories would dilute the Jewish character of Israel, he believed. But military rule would mean endless war. In the 1992 elections, Rabin campaigned as the man who could bring the country peace with security. But to succeed, Rabin told Israelis, they would have to relinquish a central part of their identity -- their sense of fearful isolation...
...Jerusalem. I remember living there with my uncle, near the Wailing Wall. The house was demolished. I imagine a future Jerusalem as a capital of two states, without a Berlin Wall. RABIN: Jerusalem is a different issue from others. For us it's the symbol. In the Jewish tradition, there is at the same time Jerusalem in the heavens and Jerusalem on the ground. Jerusalem is a living city, but also the heart, the soul of the Jewish people and the state of Israel. We understand that Jerusalem is holy to Christianity and Islam. We believe that we have...
...American youth do not know what the Holocaust was. A majority cannot correctly answer even one of four simple, basic questions about it. One can only hope Spielberg's film kindles interest in educating our children about the worst crime in modern history. Other recent surveys by the American Jewish Committee show that one-third of the American people find it ''possible'' the Holocaust never took place. Our surveys in France and Britain, by contrast, show that such potential ''Holocaust deniers'' make up only 6% of the French population and 16% of the British...
David A. Harris, Executive Director American Jewish Committee New York City...