Word: rabins
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...leaders on both sides, forced to look into the abyss of madness, retreated to sanity. Rabin phoned Arafat in Tunis and said, "I am ashamed as an Israeli that such a horrible incident took place here." That was an astonishing expression from the icily reserved Rabin, especially given his never concealed loathing for the P.L.O. chief. Politicians on the don't-give-the-Arabs-an-inch Israeli right also spoke in tones of sorrow and repentance. "It's a crime, a terrible crime, and I condemn it totally," said Benjamin Netanyahu, leader of the Likud party, which has said that...
...Rabin accepted immediately. Arafat withheld a public reply, but Clinton and Secretary of State Warren Christopher talked to him by phone and reportedly got an informal promise that P.L.O. negotiators would be there. U.S. officials hope the talks will start this week. American representatives will not sit in unless they are asked, but they will stand by, offer informal suggestions and talk to the two sides separately to clear up misinterpretations by one side of what the other's true position...
...most of the security issues but leaving some details undecided. Palestinians complain that the Israelis have been shying away from anything suggesting they were giving the Palestinians the appurtenances of statehood: they did not even want to let the Palestinians issue their own postage stamps. Arafat's aides say Rabin seemed to think time was on his side; the longer an agreement took, the more desperate the P.L.O. would become...
...Hebron bloodbath may actually make it easier for Rabin to comply. The Prime Minister and the more fanatic settlers are anything but allies, and his government has made no secret of its distaste for holding the entire Israeli population hostage to the Greater Israel dreams of a few thousand zealots. His reward has been to be jeered by settlers who yell, "Rabin is a traitor!" on his rare visits to their towns. Even so, his government has been assiduous in negotiations about safeguarding the settlers in the Gaza and Jericho areas once the Israeli army withdraws...
...Rabin and his aides think of one day buying out any of the 130,000 settlers who would be willing to move back to more conventional communities if they were amply compensated. That might lure the estimated one-third to one-half of the settlers who have moved into the territories for pleasant scenery and lower living costs. But it would do little to remove those who live in the land they call Judea and Samaria out of religious conviction -- the burning belief that it is not just the right but the duty of Jews to occupy the entire biblical...