Word: rabins
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...agreed to inform Rabin as soon as day broke in Israel. Shortly after midnight Christopher phoned Rabin, who had already heard the news from the Israeli embassy in Washington. "And so Mr. Rabin said, 'If he is coming, I have no other alternative. I'll come,' " recounted a senior Israeli government official. The official emphasized that Rabin did not feel he had any choice. "If No. 1 is coming, then another No. 1 must come," he said. "But you can be sure ((Rabin)) is not satisfied with it. He doesn't like this personality, Mr. Arafat, his past...
...threatens to abort the whole process before a real peace is nailed down. But the odds seem to be that one will be achieved. Last week's breakthrough was the result less of altruism than of simple realism. Secret talks in Oslo built enough trust to impel Arafat and Rabin to take the first step: recognition...
Arafat and Rabin may find it more difficult to deal with rejectionists on their own side than to deal with each other. Arafat has to win approval from two-thirds of the Palestine National Council, a sort of P.L.O. parliament-in- exile, to repeal the provisions of the organization's charter that pledge destruction of Israel. He is likely to prevail, but only after some jockeying. Then there is a threat of violence from Hamas, the Islamic fundamentalist organization that regards Arafat as a traitor for even talking to Israel. Hamas' current line is that it will not shed Palestinian...
...Rabin's Labor government is selling the agreement on the not entirely reassuring ground that it is "reversible" if the P.L.O. welshes or cannot contain extremist violence. Rabin almost surely will get the pact through the Knesset, and once it is approved, it will be difficult for any subsequent Israeli government to back out. Ariel Sharon, a leader of the opposition Likud bloc, thundered last week that if his party returns to power, it "will not honor" the pact. But no one else in Likud endorsed his view...
...arms buildups and aggressive international mischief, it might have sustained its oppressive empire for many more years. The unrelenting pressure from the U.S. and NATO that forced Moscow into bankruptcy opened the way for dissent that swelled to overwhelming dimensions. A whole realignment of the geopolitical stars brought Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat to their fateful accord: the end of the cold war eliminated superpower rivalry for the affections of Arab states, and made Israel realize that it could not count on a strategic alliance with the U.S.; victory in the Gulf War made the U.S. the sole regional power...