Word: rabins
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...hostilities. Officials read heavy meaning into Syria's initial refusal to admit Israeli journalists to the Geneva press conference. Even after Clinton sent two emissaries to Jerusalem to explain his belief that Assad's "normal" actually meant the open borders, tourism, free trade and diplomatic relations Israel seeks, Rabin was unconvinced. "The Americans were stretching things to try to convince themselves and us that Assad was developing some new thinking," said a Rabin adviser...
...Rabin was also deeply concerned that Assad had offered no new assurances about security arrangements if Israel does withdraw from the Golan Heights. Rising in a steep escarpment to a height of 2,970 ft. on the Syrian-Israeli border, the Golan commands all the low ground that constitutes northern Israel. Syria repeatedly shelled Israeli kibbutzim from the Heights in the 1960s. Not a shot has been fired there since Henry Kissinger brokered a troop- separation accord in 1974, but poised on both sides are thousands of tanks, a bristling reminder of the state of war that has existed between...
Despite his unease with Assad's vague linguistics, a realistic Rabin has put Israelis on notice that an agreement on the Golan is coming nearer -- and they're not sure they like it. The 13,000 settlers who live on the Heights, supported by many other Israelis, have mounted noisy protests denouncing Rabin's plans to give back territory. In the hours after the Geneva meeting, Rabin felt he needed to defuse a fresh outcry and abruptly called for a referendum on the future of the Golan. Whether or not a plebiscite would ever be accepted by Syrians -- or Israelis...
...Palestine Liberation Organization on bringing Palestinian rule to Jericho and the Gaza Strip. Peres and P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat were due to meet again at the end of last week in Norway. And if Syria is back on track, Jordan cannot be far behind. Clinton, Assad and Rabin do agree on one point: they would like 1994 to be the year for a breakthrough on peace in the whole Middle East...
Syrian President Hafez Assad, meeting with President Clinton in Geneva, said his country seeks "normal, peaceful" relations with Israel -- under certain conditions. Among them is the complete return of the Golan Heights, which Israel captured in 1967. Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin said that before a substantial Israeli withdrawal from the Golan Heights could be considered, his government would hold a national referendum on the subject. Israel plans to resume peace talks with Syria this week in Washington...