Word: rabin
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
What do I fear about Peres?" concerned about answering at all, Yitzhak Rabin mulled the question carefully. This was in the mid-1980s, and Rabin was hardly a disinterested observer. He and Shimon Peres had been bitter Labor Party rivals throughout their careers. Both men were still angling to lead Israel, and Rabin was reluctant to offend needlessly. "O.K.," he finally said, "but this is for later. You'll talk to me first...
...never got the chance. Today, though, with Rabin a martyr and Peres his successor, what was said back then is worth recording. Sitting in his spare Tel Aviv office--his clean desk marred only by an ashtray and the cigarettes he chain-smoked to distraction--Rabin began: "Shimon is in love with an idea, land for peace. Sometimes that's fine. Obviously we wouldn't have peace with Egypt if we hadn't given up the Sinai. But I worry that in seeking a larger peace, Peres, to prove that he's tough, might overreact in a way that...
SENTENCED. YIGAL AMIR, 25; to life imprisonment; for the assassination of Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin; in Tel Aviv. The Jewish ultra-rightist brought new depths of meaning to the word unrepentant, grinning and yawning through a trial in which he freely admitted he shot Rabin to derail peace negotiations with the Palestinians. Amir's fellow extremists are taunting Rabin's successor, Shimon Peres, by chanting Amir's name...
...that U.S. policy was at a critical point. "This was the most risky derailment we have had," he told TIME. "My first reaction was what a sense of trauma it must be for the Israeli people and for Peres. You can try to deal with the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, which for the Israeli people was so much harder than most people realize because it was a Jew killing a Jew. Then there was the terrorist incident the prior weekend. I knew that with another one, they would cross an emotional line...
Students at the speech said they were impressed by Rabin's presentation and her passionate defense of the peace process...