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...staff's call for Peres and Rabin to decline their Nobel Peace Prize is based on the kind of blind self-righteouness that has thwarted the peace process in the past...
Before TV cameras, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and his Cabinet spun a whirlwind of threats and possible further moves to get at the elusive terrorists--including an international campaign to cut off donations to Hamas from charity groups in the U.S. and elsewhere, and drafting all eligible Israeli youths into the police force, rather than the army, ostensibly to fight the group. "There's a political necessity for creating a lot of noise and the illusion you're doing something," says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer...
Several months ago, for example, Arafat made a big fuss about his desire to visit Jerusalem, even though the act would only serve to weaken Rabin's popular support without producing any tangible gains for the Palestininans...
Complacency on his part will permanently derail the peace talks, since Rabin, Peres and the Israeli people will eventually lose the capacity to continue in the face of unchecked Palestinian terror...
...pieces aboard an Israeli bus in Tel Aviv this morning, dramatically escalating the shadowy war between Israel and the militant Islamic group, the only one opposing the Israel-P.L.O. peace accords. At least 48 people were wounded. The attack -- which prompted worldwide condemnation and forced Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin to rush back from London -- was one of the worst in the annals of Middle East fighting. Shortly before 3 a.m. EDT, a 10-kilo bomb eviscerated the crowded No. 5 city bus, just as it had pulled alongside another bus in downtown morning traffic, blowing body parts, apparently from...