Word: palestinians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...BLOOD OF MARTYRS HAS fertilized political and religious causes for thousands of years. So too in the case of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. His murder by an anti-Arab Jewish fanatic gave immediate new life to the cause of peace with Israel's Palestinian and Arab neighbors that Rabin had determinedly pushed...
...Palestinians committed to the peace process, Rabin's death spells trouble. Palestinian security forces are now in a state of emergency because they fear that the assassination will inspire Palestinian enemies of peace to try to kill Arafat, who declined to attend Rabin's funeral for just that reason. Politically, Arafat had come to trust Rabin, and while Peres is viewed as a softer adversary, the Palestinians fear that he will not be able to rally Israel behind him. Says a senior Palestinian Authority official, "The Israeli politicians are sad now. But after three days you will see them again...
...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, as human beings, as free men." In action too Rabin believed in strongly pursuing a straightforward--if often difficult...
...next seven years, Rabin retreated to Labor's back bench until a national-unity government turned to him as Defense Minister in 1984. In this post, he proved implacable in his determination to suppress the Palestinian intifadeh, the uprising against Israeli rule that exploded across the occupied territories in 1987. When the beatings and deportations he ordered proved ineffectual, Rabin decided that 1.7 million captive people could not be ruled by force, and he made the idea of a negotiated peace the theme of his 1992 campaign against Likud Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir. To achieve peace, he told the voters...
...slain Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin ended, his apparent successor moved quickly to keep the peace process on track. Early this morning, Israeli troops lowered the Israeli flag over their military headquarters, got into 14 military vehicles and drove out of the West Bank town of Jenin. As they left, Palestinian police, followed by a jubilant crowd of Arabs, entered the building and raised the Palestinian flag. Jenin becomes the first town to gain autonomy under the agreement signed by Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Rabin last September. In fact, Acting Prime Minister Shimon Peres, who was formally approved as leader...