Word: rabins
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...When you were on the stage at the signing of the peace agreement and you put your arms out for Arafat and Rabin to shake hands, did you plan to do that...
Cover: Photomontage: Rabin by Hammi -- SIPA Press; Arafat for TIME by David Rubinger; map from Argosy Gallery
...accommodation between Israel and the Arabs has been pushing up through the Middle East soil for six or seven years, ripening but not ready. Who's to say, exactly, what made an avowed terrorist and a gruff, tough soldier reckon the time to pluck it had come? Rabin, hero of the Six-Day War, stern enforcer of the occupation, talked about territorial compromise but seemed an unlikely figure to break long-standing taboos. As Defense Minister during the early days of the intifadeh, he vowed to defeat it with "force, might and beatings," but the uprising ended up changing...
...vital enabling details are fashioned. Thus while Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin reached beyond Washington's mediation in the 1970s, cementing the eventual Egyptian-Israeli treaty required Jimmy Carter's skill at Camp David. The play today is similar. As only they could, Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin have set the course, but America's continuing involvement is inevitable...
...forces helped monitor the Sinai accord a decade ago. Clinton must move beyond merely reviving the aborted U.S.-P.L.O. dialogue and actively embrace Arafat. As the P.L.O. leader's weakness dictated compromise with Israel, it now burdens the peace. Hard-line rejectionists want Arafat's head, literally. Prime Minister Rabin has come to understand that Arafat is as constrained by internal Palestinian politics as he is by Israel's. Washington will have to remind Rabin of that reality if Arafat rattles his saber to protect his flanks -- and perhaps act as a court of appeal when disputes arise...