Word: rabins
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...government's decision to deport the Muslim fundamentalists who are accused of inciting violence in Israel and the occupied territories. No, the Palestine Liberation Organization said, it would no longer delay pressing its demand for sanctions against Israel at the United Nations. No, said Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, he would not give in and take back the exiles despite that threat...
Although these penalties are relatively mild, Israeli officials are enraged at the very prospect of facing U.N. sanctions. "To put us in the same category as Iraq, Serbia and Libya -- it's unacceptable," says Rabin's spokesman, Gad Ben-Ari. "We've not swallowed another country or massacred thousands of people or harbored terrorists who blew up a packed airplane." To . block approval, Jerusalem has embarked on an intensive lobbying effort. Rabin took the unusual step of calling all ambassadors accredited to Israel to a late-night meeting at his office in Tel Aviv. There, they were served cold sodas...
...ambassador, William Harrop, had an earlier, private hearing. Rabin has expressed confidence that the U.S. will protect Israel -- but he wants to make sure. Israeli officials were on the phone intensively with Washington all week, and there was at least one personal conversation between Rabin and President Clinton. The Israelis tried to persuade the U.S. that a solution to the deportation crisis might yet be found in the appeals process set up by the court decision...
...accept a phased return as long as Israel gives it some cover by creating a process to review the cases. "No one should expect a dramatic breakthrough in which 396 people go home tomorrow," says a U.S. official. Creating his own version of "Read my lips," Rabin told visiting Spanish Foreign Minister Javier Solana, "Write this down. The ((deportation)) decision is irreversible...
...only hope for a peaceful resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian struggle lies in defusing Hamas' power. For this reason, a growing number of Israeli politicians, including a significant faction within Rabin's Cabinet, now advocate recognizing and speaking directly with the P.L.O. leadership. Beyond that, nationalists like Ghassan Khatib believe that Israel must offer Palestinians concrete proof that negotiations can pay off. "If there is progress in the peace talks, then the P.L.O. will be in a position to absorb Hamas," he says. "Otherwise it will be the other way around...