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...symbolism surrounding Bill Clinton's witness-for-peace visit to the Middle East was almost too perfect. At the desert border crossing where he met Jordan's King Hussein and Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin to co-sign their treaty of friendship, the table was set up on an asphalt strip in the middle of a minefield. An area had been paved and fenced in specifically for the ceremony. "Walk 15 yards beyond that barbed wire," a U.S. Secret Service agent warned onlookers, "and you won't be coming back...
...leaders of Hamas -- the militant Islamic group opposed to the Israeli-PLO accord and responsible forthree serious attacks on Israelislast month -- today said they wanted to open a dialogue with the Jewish state. But Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin immediately snubbed the first-ever offer, calling Hamas "the enemy of peace" and saying that the only way to deal with the group "is to wage a war of annihilation against it." The two leaders, both moderate clerics, said they were responding to a recent request for talks by Israeli Police Minister Moshe Shahal. TIME Jerusalem Bureau ChiefLisa Beyersays Israel sees...
Perhaps the best portent from last week was Rabin's repeated insistence that Israel would continue talking peace with the Palestinians even in the face of such a frightening and grisly assault. Although Israeli confidence in the virtues of accommodation with the Palestinians has been shaken, Hamas may have actually improved the prospects for peace by laying down a challenge the Israelis can only answer. "We can't afford to grant them the satisfaction of stopping the talks," says Health Minister Ephraim Sneh. "We have to defeat them, not surrender to their demands." That may entail accepting a less perfect...
...peace treaty, the first such pact between Israel and an Arab nation since the treaty with Egypt in 1979. After 46 years in an official state of war, the reconciliation will boost commerce and facilitate travel between the two countries. President Clinton will join Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Jordan's King Hussein for the official signing ceremony on Wednesday on the border between the two countries...
...Hamas organization of Palestinian Islamic militants detonated a package of tnt on a crowded bus in normally placid Tel Aviv; 21 people were killed. The especially grisly suicide attack came just days after the bloody denouement of a Hamas kidnapping in which two Israeli soldiers and three Palestinians died. Rabin vowed to crack down on Hamas suspects and urged Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to do the same...