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On the eve of the Jewish Sabbath last Friday, Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres felt the moment was right for a glass of Yardin champagne. Israelis consider this their finest drink, and Peres was convinced that nothing but the best would do, given what was about to occur. Earlier in...
HEBRON, West Bank: The stabbing of an Israeli settler by a Palestinian in Hebron on Wednesday added fuel to an already raging inferno of debate over Israel's agreement to pull out its troops from the city. Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres is under increasing pressure from religious and right...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: President Clinton began two days of Middle East peace talks Monday by signing a joint declaration on terrorism with Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres. In finalizing an anti-terrorism accord begun at a March meeting in Egypt, President Clinton pledged $100 million in aid to help Israel to...
At the time of our conversation, the Likud Party was uninterested in a peace beyond the treaty with Egypt. But Rabin, then Defense Minister in the government of national unity, predicted change "in a decade if not sooner." For its continued existence, he said, Israel needed "the goodwill of friends...
Perhaps in responding to the Hizballah rockets, Rabin would have acted exactly as Peres has. But at a time when Israel's counterstrikes are being criticized as an election ploy designed to portray Peres as tough, the Prime Minister must work overtime to rebut the idea that he is acting...