Word: rabins
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...perception was not lost in Jerusalem. Already torn over the wisdom of engaging in a negotiation that will require Israel to give up most or all of the Golan Heights at a time when Israelis are still digesting territorial concessions to the Palestinians, the government of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was looking for a bolder, plainer statement of Syrian intentions. The usually optimistic Foreign Minister, Shimon Peres, found the public remarks "too positive to be disappointing, but too general to be satisfactory...
...Palestinians in some of the occupied areas, the P.L.O. sees as a step toward its goal of a Palestinian state. Negotiators recognize that some form of shared responsibility for security on the borders will have to be reached to preserve Arafat's credibility as leader of the P.L.O. While Rabin's government has thus far fended off no-confidence motions in the Knesset sponsored by the right-wing opposition, Arafat has been shaken by a recent spate of resignations from his own Fatah movement. According to Ghassan Khatib, a West Bank-based official with the People's Party, a constituent...
...peace process. For two groups who can't work together on anything else, their collaboration at keeping violence alive has been remarkably successful: five days before Israel was scheduled to begin pulling its forces out of the Gaza Strip and part of the West Bank, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was forced to pour 5,000 more soldiers into the region to control the cycle of murder and reprisal that has killed 41 Palestinians and 14 Israelis since the signing of the Sept. 13 pact...
...first by the suddenness of the peace accord, the settlers became increasingly restive. But their noisy protests had little impact on the rest of the population until last week, when the killings pushed the government to treat their demands for protection with fresh urgency. At the same time, Rabin knows he must tame his own rampaging citizens if he is to work out security arrangements with the Palestinians...
Once a powerful force under Likud governments, the settlers have seen their leverage weaken since Labor's rise to power last year. Rabin made it clear that the settlers represented only 4% of the population, and he cared more about the other 96%. Although many Jews in the occupied territories are young married couples originally drawn by tax breaks and cheaper housing to the bedroom communities outside Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, a core of hard-liners are fired by a messianic fervor that charges them with settling the biblical lands where the Jews once lived...