Word: rabin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...town meeting was especially delicate to organize. Palestinian audience members were bused to the theater for the 6:30 a.m. telecast only after special approval came from Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin. A number of potential Palestinian panelists refused to participate. Speaking for the Palestinians, they claimed, is a role that belongs only to the P.L.O. The three representatives who did appear insisted that the wall be set up and avoided even looking at the Israelis for most of the show...
...leaders of the Palestinian uprising issued leaflets addressed to their stone-throwing followers. The order: step up the violence on Land Day, the twelfth anniversary of the deaths of six Israeli Arabs who were killed while they protested Israeli government confiscation of their property. Anticipating trouble, Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin took the unprecedented step of sealing off the West Bank and Gaza for three days. He warned of harsher measures to come if the unrest did not end soon. Challenged Rabin: "Let's confront each other. We'll see who will be stronger...
Scores of angry settlers also demonstrated in front of Yitzhak Rabin's home and called on him to resign, Israel radio said...
Visiting the site in Gaza City where soldiers shot three Arabs to death on Saturday, Rabin explained a new tactic the army was using to take the initiative away from the Arab demonstrators...
...majority of the incidents," Rabin said about the recent bloodshed, "the confrontations were the result of our initiative, part of an effort to assure a calming of the situation, to suppress the violence...