Word: rabins
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...miniature soldiers marched across the marble mantel. Clinton asked for a masculine, library-like room, and, says Hockersmith, loves the deep red simulated-leather wallpaper, massive, specially designed bookcases and his easy chair and ottoman from the Arkansas Governor's mansion. Nine major treaties -- most recently the Arafat-Rabin agreement of last September -- were signed on the circa-1867 table that serves as his desk...
...Strip over the killing by Israelis of a leader of the militant Muslim group Hamas. The unrest was the most serious since the signing of the peace accord in Washington in September. On Friday Israeli soldiers killed another militant Palestinian leader. Concerned about security arrangements, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin warned that Israel may not be able to withdraw its troops from Gaza and the West Bank town of Jericho before the Dec. 13 deadline agreed to in September...
Since Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and P.L.O. chairman Yasser Arafat sealed their historic peace agreement on Sept. 13, hardly a week has gone by without a fatal clash between Palestinians and Israelis. The depressing chronology...
Kollek had long been prepared to step down until Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin declared the race a referendum on his agreement with Yasser Arafat to begin limited Palestinian self-rule, and begged Kollek to run again. It was a mistake not even Kollek's legendary charm could reverse. Olmert wisely let the mayor's 82 years speak for themselves: he kept silent on how a conservative Likud government would run the city. While Kollek tried to deflect the inevitable snooze jokes and sought unsuccessfully to woo Palestinians in East Jerusalem, who have traditionally boycotted elections and felt ignored...
Within hours of his victory, Olmert exacerbated Palestinian fears by affirming that "every Jew can acquire property anywhere in Jerusalem," an issue Kollek had resolutely tamped down. Anticipating that Jews would use such rhetoric to push for new settlements in Arab neighborhoods, Rabin swiftly retorted that such remarks "do great harm to the delicate fabric of relations." While it is the national government that sets Israeli policy on Jerusalem, the mayor's ability to maintain the delicate peace in this restive city is crucial...