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...referendum on a deal he said would only provide ever closer launching pads for P.L.O. attacks on Israel. Rafael Eitan, a former army Chief of Staff who heads the Tsomet Party, charged the government with signing "an agreement with the greatest murderer of Jews since Hitler." In the Knesset, Peres coldly dismissed hecklers with, "You are the men of yesterday. The world has changed...
...they don't represent a substantial number of Israelis." While Jews used violence against Jews to stop the return of the Sinai to Egypt, this time the threat is likely to be contained by two factors -- Israel's reverence for democracy and its highly effective security forces. Once the Knesset votes to uphold the plan, only a few zealots would try to destroy it. And Rabin, a man with a deserved reputation for toughness, will not shrink from arresting violent subversives. "One should never forget that Israel is still a state, a people and a democracy," Peres warns. "Just...
Rabin, who was also entertaining feelers from the Palestinians by way of Egypt, remained cautious about the talks. But by March, Rabin authorized Peres to keep close but still unofficial tabs on what was being called the "Oslo Channel." By then, the Knesset had repealed the law prohibiting Israelis from meeting with the P.L.O...
...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...
...unconditional return. Meeting with American Jewish leaders on Tuesday, Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali suggested that the proposal did not satisfy U.N. demands. Back home, Rabin, attacked by the right-wing Likud Party for "capitulation to terrorist organizations, Arab governments and leftist ministers in the Cabinet," told the Knesset that Israel retained the option of deporting more Palestinians...