Word: rabins
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...debut speech before Israel's parliament as the country's new Prime Minister, Yitzhak Rabin suggested that Arab heads of state come to Jerusalem to talk peace. Actually, Arab leaders have long had a standing invitation to do that, and Rabin was just repeating it -- predictably, to no avail. But the Prime Minister followed up with an extraordinary appeal to his own countrymen to shake off the siege mentality that until now has made the concessions required for peace too scary for them to contemplate. "No longer is it true," Rabin said, "that 'the whole world is against...
...saying, Rabin sought to prepare his people for meaningful negotiations aimed at establishing Palestinian self-rule in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. For the first time in a decade, a government exists that appears able to deliver such a deal. Rabin had originally pledged to form a centrist administration, but having failed to attract the ultra-nationalist Tzomet party into his coalition, he wound up with a left-leaning bloc, the most dovish in Israel's history. Labor's major alignment partner is Meretz, a constellation of peacenik organizations that favors allowing the Palestinians to decide their...
...move for both Washington and the Palestinians is Rabin's intention to slow the growth of Jewish settlements in the territories. He rejects the all-out freeze that the Palestinians have demanded and the Bush Administration would prefer, but has made plans to abolish financial incentives for building what he calls "political settlements" -- those in populated Palestinian areas that the Labor Party might one day relinquish in a land-for-peace swap...
...into reconsidering the $10 billion in loan guarantees Jerusalem wants to help resettle Russian Jews. Insofar as the settlement imbroglio was part of a campaign to show Israeli voters that the U.S. relationship was in jeopardy under Shamir, it has done its work. In part, the President simply likes Rabin better than the stubborn Shamir; moreover, caught in a tough presidential race, Bush would like to repair his relations with American Jewish voters...
...Labor won, but Rabin will have trouble delivering the peace...