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...settlement remains and, according to Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, will not be relocated. While Rabin has no great affection for the place, he believes that dismantling it would amount to rewarding the militants, and thus encourage attacks against other Jewish settlements. Says Uri Dromi, director of Israel's Government Press Office: "The message we want to send is that to get something out of Israel, you have to sit down and talk." Under the limited self-rule agreement that Israel signed with Yasser Arafat, the fate of all the settlements is to be decided in negotiations, scheduled to begin...
Until the suicide attack, Arafat had managed to put his adversities to use in his most recent meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. The Palestinian's standing in the Gaza Strip had dropped so low that the Israeli leader -- though no fan of Arafat's -- felt it necessary to prop him up with promises to ease an economic boycott and expand Palestinian autonomy, which is limited to enclaves in the Gaza Strip and Jericho, to the rest of the West Bank. "The situation is alarming," said a senior Israeli negotiator. "We are worried that our agreements will be overturned...
...Israelis shared some of the blame for Arafat's mess. After a series of brutal attacks in Israel by Islamic extremists, Rabin barred Palestinians from crossing into Israel for day jobs. Last week Israel agreed to allow a total of 23,000 Palestinians to cross daily. Still, 40,000 others who had worked in Israel before the violence were left jobless -- and furious. As Rabin and Arafat met last week, several hundred laborers protested at the main crossing point into Israel. Asked whether he was demonstrating against Arafat or Rabin, Nabil Fami, a truck driver, replied, "What's the difference...
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin received assurances from President Clinton in Washington today that his country's $3 billion annual U.S. aid package -- the largest for any nation -- won't shrink under aGOP-controlled Congress. After the two met for 80 minutes today, Clinton said he would press for even more U.S. money for an Israeli anti-missile defense system. (The president also said he might argue for sending U.S. troops to the Mideast to monitor a possible Israeli-Syrian peace accord in the disputed Golan Heights, but then demurred, saying he'd not yet committed himself.) Incoming Senate Foreign...
Decisions of justice have to be reached through careful consideration of the circumstances and the possible consequences. When Rabin deported the Hamas activists, he knew that the consequences of not taking severe actions could be dire. Indeed, most of the Hamas leaders behind the recent terrorist attacks were among the 400, former deportees. Rabin's decision to deport the 400 Hamas terrorists was firmly rooted in reason. His decision to allow them back into Israel was a surrender to emotion...