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Diplomatic signing ceremonies are supposed to be formal affairs, choreographed to the dotted i and not a handshake out of place. So the 2,500 guests in Cairo's International Conference Center, gathered to see Israel and the P.L.O. seal an agreement to begin Palestinian self-rule, were astonished by...
Like a couple committed to marriage but unsure how to live together, Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization last week shrugged off their mutual uncertainties and, fingers crossed, set a date to begin a new future. Though negotiators had still not resolved all the details of Palestinian self-rule despite...
According to Israeli officials, the breakthrough in the sclerotic talks came two weeks ago, when Arafat and Peres consulted over 48 hours in Bucharest. Rabin had told his Foreign Minister that it was time to trade some of the symbolic measures sought by the P.L.O. for the security concessions Israel...
The day after the attacks, Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres said that Israel "will do whatever [it] can to continue the peace momentum." Meanwhile, Yasser Arafat passed on a chance to publicly condemn the attacks, and under extreme pressure, more than two days after the Afula incident, the PLO simply...
The Middle East, However, is not a place where evenhandedness can be expected. The resolve of Rabin and Peres to continue the peace process was not shaken by these most recent terrorist acts, because they realize that now, the only hope to end the violence is the current process. Negotiations...