Word: rabin
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...When you were on the stage at the signing of the peace agreement and you put your arms out for Arafat and Rabin to shake hands, did you plan to do that...
...many years I have been asking the Israelis to start making peace. Peace needs courageous men. Now it is Arafat and Rabin. It is very easy for anybody to start a war, but it is very difficult to achieve peace. There is a new world order. We want to be a part of this new order, as Palestinians, and as an Arab nation...
Cover: Photomontage: Rabin by Hammi -- SIPA Press; Arafat for TIME by David Rubinger; map from Argosy Gallery
...vital enabling details are fashioned. Thus while Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin reached beyond Washington's mediation in the 1970s, cementing the eventual Egyptian-Israeli treaty required Jimmy Carter's skill at Camp David. The play today is similar. As only they could, Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin have set the course, but America's continuing involvement is inevitable...
...forces helped monitor the Sinai accord a decade ago. Clinton must move beyond merely reviving the aborted U.S.-P.L.O. dialogue and actively embrace Arafat. As the P.L.O. leader's weakness dictated compromise with Israel, it now burdens the peace. Hard-line rejectionists want Arafat's head, literally. Prime Minister Rabin has come to understand that Arafat is as constrained by internal Palestinian politics as he is by Israel's. Washington will have to remind Rabin of that reality if Arafat rattles his saber to protect his flanks -- and perhaps act as a court of appeal when disputes arise...