Word: rabins
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...DESCRIBED AS A "PACKAGE DEAL," THOUGH its real design was to forestall a package of economic sanctions by the U.N. Security Council and return attention to stalled Middle East peace talks. In the first policy shift since their expulsion in December, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin offered to repatriate 101 of 396 Palestinians still stranded in southern Lebanon. The rest, Rabin said, could return after a maximum of one year instead...
...Washington, satisfied few outside the Clinton Administration. The deportees held out for full enforcement of Security Council Resolution 799, which demands their immediate and unconditional return. Meeting with American Jewish leaders on Tuesday, Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali suggested that the proposal did not satisfy U.N. demands. Back home, Rabin, attacked by the right-wing Likud Party for "capitulation to terrorist organizations, Arab governments and leftist ministers in the Cabinet," told the Knesset that Israel retained the option of deporting more Palestinians...
...they try not to point fingers and quarrel in public. But this time the diplomatic niceties slipped away in the middle of an emotional dispute about the 415 Palestinians Israel declared to be fundamentalist leaders and deported to Lebanon. Washington has leaned hard on Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin to take all or some of them back. Israel responded by implying that the U.S. was complicit in Hamas' terrorism...
...large part of that stubbornness arises from Rabin's confidence that ultimately the U.S. will -- as it always has -- veto any U.N. punishment of Israel. The Palestinians also expect that. Says Sa'eb Erakat, a Palestinian delegate to the Middle East peace talks: "Anybody who thinks that Clinton will start his presidency off by imposing sanctions on Israel is crazy...
...strong chance of a U.S. veto sobers the exiled Palestinians scraping by on the southern slopes of Lebanon. Their spokesman, Rantisi, posed another question the other day during his hillside sermon. In urging the world "to prove who is the highest authority," he wanted to know, "is it Rabin and his Supreme Court or the U.N. Security Council?" It is neither, of course, but rather the world's single surviving superpower, which, however loath it may be to use it, still has the power to utter the most important...