Word: rabins
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many years I have been asking the Israelis to start making peace. Peace needs courageous men. Now it is Arafat and Rabin. It is very easy for anybody to start a war, but it is very difficult to achieve peace. There is a new world order. We want to be a part of this new order, as Palestinians, and as an Arab nation...
...About halfway through the process, when it was accepted by Rabin and Peres together...
Masterfully ambivalent body language -- Rabin had to make peace with a suddenly retired terrorist and also reassure Israelis he wasn't too happy about...
Oded Ben-Ami, a senior aide to Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, allowed himself a sweet moment of repose the other day. Fresh from Washington, Ben-Ami relaxed with his family during the Jewish New Year, but he had no illusions about the new way of life awaiting Israelis and Palestinians. Both sides have to fill in the blanks of their agreement in principle and figure out precisely how to transfer most government functions in the West Bank and Gaza Strip from the occupier to the occupied. "The game remains a puzzle of fitting hundreds of small details together," he said...
...lifelong enemies have undertaken a new relationship before making sure they know how to live it. Says a Rabin confidant: "We wanted to nail each ! other down at the lowest common denominator, make it public and from there build the layers that will lead to a settlement on the ground." That leaves a host of urgent issues to resolve if the first stage of the pact is to be implemented as planned in the next two to four months. "They range from questions of security to issues of regulating the tomato trade," says Ephraim Sneh, a Labor Party Knesset member...