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After almost five weeks of negotiations the Rabin government agreed to allow 160 international observers into the West Bank and Gaza Strip and to "explore a possible expansion of scope" of the self-rule negotiations beyond areas already agreed upon. These concessions prompted the Palestinians to resume talks. Rabin's reluctant acquiescence to the international observers, in the face of heated opposition in Israel, allowed the first non-Israeli deployment in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The deployment crossed a symbolic barrier, as Israel has never before allowed outside forces to tamper with its internal security...
...chance to publicly condemn the attacks, and under extreme pressure, more than two days after the Afula incident, the PLO simply stated that it "expresses its regrets for the incident which took place in Afula and which cost the life of a number of citizens." After the massacre, Yitzhak Rabin had a very different reaction: "As a Jew, as an Israeli, I am shamed by the disgrace imposed upon us by a degenerate murderer....To him and those like him we say: You are not part of the Zionist enterprise. You are a foreign implant. You are an errant weed...
...words of the New Republic staff editorial written following the Hebron massacre, which recently rang too true: "When, one needs to ask, did a Middle Eastern government or a Palestinian leader, or even a group of Arab intellectuals utter a word of contrition--to say nothing of words like Rabin's--about any of the scores of incidents in which Jewish innocents were cut down no less brutally than the men at prayer in Hebron, and cut down on orders from some official high command at that? The answer is: never...
...Middle East, However, is not a place where evenhandedness can be expected. The resolve of Rabin and Peres to continue the peace process was not shaken by these most recent terrorist acts, because they realize that now, the only hope to end the violence is the current process. Negotiations to replace the current Israeli civil authorities with Palestinians in Jencho and the Gaza Strip are in their final stages, and this is the first step in the interim period of Palestinian self-rule. It is crucial to this fragile process that the parties stick to the Declaration of Principles signed...
...things that flowed from Desert Storm were marvelous," says Bush. "It led to the Madrid meeting on the Middle East, and that led to the handshake on the White House lawn between Arafat and Rabin. And NAFTA was our baby. Clinton, once he got through trying to get by the labor and environmental crowd, worked like hell for it. Give him credit. But it was our deal...