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...entirely. As Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who made that statement on ABC's Nightline last week, was well aware, the TWA hostage crisis was an Israeli problem as well. As captor of the 776 mostly Shi'ite Lebanese detainees whose release was demanded by the hijackers of TWA Flight 847, Israel seemed to hold the key to freedom for the 40 captured Americans in Beirut. If Jerusalem refused to assist its most powerful ally, it ran the risk of alienating U.S. public opinion. Yet by cooperating in a trade, Israel would violate its longstanding rule against dealing with terrorists...
...general reaction in Israel was one of skepticism. Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin, visiting in New York City, emphasized to TIME editors that Israel insists on nothing less than direct negotiations with Jordan without prior conditions, and is not convinced that Hussein will accept such a process. But, Rabin continued, if the King wanted to assemble a Jordanian- Palestinian delegation for direct talks, "it's fine with us." Rabin said he personally favored an Arab delegation that included representatives from the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip because it is those territories that would be directly affected. Israel's only...
...said Israel's Defense Minister, Yitzhak Rabin, last week as his government completed the most controversial prisoner exchange in the country's history. The swap was lopsided: 1,150 Palestinians and Lebanese, including scores of convicted terrorists, for three Israeli prisoners of war captured in Lebanon in 1982. It involved complex arrangements, took almost 24 hours to accomplish, and spanned half a dozen cities and towns in the Middle East and Western Europe. And it occurred only shortly before Israel's national unity government, headed by Prime Minister Shimon Peres, quietly began withdrawing the last army units from Lebanon, thereby...
...compromise with terrorism. But to Peres and his Labor Party colleagues, the prisoner swap was an essential step in ending the war in Lebanon and in living up to another long-standing policy: that Israel will do everything in its power to bring its POWs home. Insisted Defense Minister Rabin: "I don't feel any moral right to say to a captured soldier and his family that he should be left to rot in prison because the price is too high." In Lebanon, meantime, the instability precipitated by the war continued to grow. Sporadic fighting has been going...
...streets, showering Lebanese soldiers with rice and flowers as they moved in. The pullback was a Syrian success of sorts--Syrian forces are remaining in Lebanon--but Damascus so far has refrained from moving its units into the territory abandoned by Israel. Said Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin as he watched the pullback: "I hope the Syrians understand we have certain limits, and we will not be able to stay on the sidelines if they exceed them." Earlier in the week the Israeli Cabinet had voted to complete the three-stage withdrawal from Lebanon by early June, but the Israelis...