Word: plo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lasting peace depends on the PLO guaranteeing Israel's security...
...reaction to the surreal sight of Rabin shaking hands with PLO leader Yassir Arafat that day was very different. We, like most Israelis, knew of Arafat's murderous history of terrorism, and his tactics of choosing children as targets and shopping malls as battlefields...
...Rabin and Peres have emphasized in the past few months, peace is never made with friends, only with enemies. Israel can't choose its negotiating partners--the ineffectiveness of the non-PLO Palestinian delegation to Madrid proved this point. For a negotiating partner with authority and legitimacy in the territories, Israel was forced to turn to Yassir Arafat and the PLO...
Peres, an instrumental figure in last September's Israel-PLO accord and a negotiator in the talks about Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and Jericho, will speak on "An Arab-Israeli Peace: A Promise for the Future...
Finally, Clinton acted with great dignity during the historic Middle East peace ceremony in September. He gave credit to his predecessors, to former Secretary of State James Baker and to the Israeli and PLO negotiators and in general maintained a low profile. Sometimes, a president enhances his stature by deflecting credit to others...