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Israel's Knesset was about to vote for a bill that would force new elections on Prime Minister EHUD BARAK, humiliating the man who took office 17 months ago. But Barak upstaged the body by saying he wouldn't oppose the bill. In effect, he squared off against opposition leader...
DIED. LEAH RABIN, 72, widow of assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and blunt-spoken supporter of the Arab-Israeli peace process; of cancer; in Petach Tikva, Israel. Rabin's last public act was to ask Israeli leader Ehud Barak to send former Prime Minister Shimon Peres to negotiate with...
Once in Gaza, Peres sat back and listened to Arafat complain. The excitable Palestinian leader inflated the numbers of dead and wounded and sneered at measures Israel thought of as concessions. "I sensed an unbelievable gap," Peres said. But over dinner Peres calmed Arafat. After they ate a dessert of...
Q. What's your position on the agreement between Yasser Arafat and Shimon Peres?
A. The Palestinian Authority declared war against itself. Meeting with [Regional Cooperation Minister] Peres, [Transport Minister Amnon Lipkin-] Shahak, [Barak adviser Yossi] Ginossar and other generals at a time when the Israeli army and settlers were killing our people--well I don't want to give a name to this...