Word: rabin
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...moved there at the time of the Oslo accords, when peace with the Palestinians seemed closer than ever, Avi never imagined that Dugit would be evacuated. Located so close to the Israeli border, these northern Gaza settlers were sure their villages would remain in Israeli hands. "It was Yitzhak Rabin (then Defense Minister) who gave the approval to establish Dugit," says Firouz. "He promised it would never be evacuated...
...P.L.O. quickly denied that it had anything to do with last week's airport assaults. Arafat in November denounced terrorist activities outside Israeli-occupied territory. But in Tel Aviv, Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin claimed that the newest attacks showed that "the Palestinian terrorist organizations are trying to reach us and harm us wherever they can." Israeli Foreign Ministry Spokesman Avi Pazner warned that "Israel will continue its struggle against terrorism in every place and at any time that it sees...
...Other Israeli officials contended that the U.S. had secretly persuaded Assad to withdraw them. Assad did so but, showing his muscle in the region, abruptly sent the weapons back into the Bekaa just two days later. That move was announced by Peres. The impasse led Defense Minister Rabin to declare ominously, "Israel will reserve to itself the ways, the means and the time to cope with this problem." Israel thus seemed poised to deal with both the missiles and the terrorist attacks, perhaps simultaneously...
...militia known as the South Lebanon Army, which protects the security zone along the Israeli-Lebanese border. The current drive began late last month, when guerrillas backed by Syria and Iran launched the most concerted barrage of Katyusha rockets against northern Israel since 1982. Warned Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin: "If normal life is not permitted to go on in northern Israel, there will be no normal life in southern Lebanon--if there will be any life...
...like a baleful warning. Inscribed on its side is a singular commandment: EARTH CONCEAL NOT THE BLOOD SHED ON THEE! Fourteen long, low mounds of mass graves are marked simply, starkly: HERE LIE BURIED 1,000 BODIES; HERE LIE 2,500 BODIES. In 1975, then Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin walked among the neatly tended graves of Bergen-Belsen and remarked bitterly, "It is so green that it is making me angry...