Word: rabins
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...shooting and it's getting worse. It is very widespread, and there are thousands of people involved on both sides. One commentator here said the violence has obliterated all gains of the peace process, and we're basically back to square one, before former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Arafat signed the peace accord." Israel has sealed off Gaza and the West Bank in the wake of the new clashes and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is cutting short a trip to Germany to return to Israel. He reportedly will meet with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat today. The violence follows Netanyahu...
...exactly a year before Election Day, Bob Dole was jetting from South Dakota to accompany the man whose job he sought. As Senate majority leader, Dole had been asked to join a high-level, bipartisan delegation assembled by Bill Clinton to attend the funeral of Yitzhak Rabin, the Israeli Prime Minister assassinated only hours earlier. Dole had barely known Rabin but viewed him as a soul mate nonetheless--a "no-nonsense kind of guy," he told me as we flew toward Washington--someone "who knew how to get things done." Those words, expressing Dole's highest compliment, were the very...
JERUSALEM: Former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin made a secret promise to President Clinton that Israel would return the entire Golan Heights to Syria in exchange for peace, a prominent Israeli journalist said Wednesday. Rabin even kept the pledge secret from then-foreign minister Shimon Peres, Orly Azulai-Katz wrote in a new book about Peres, excerpts of which were printed in the Yediot Ahronot daily on Wednesday. Azulai-Katz says Peres was upset when he found out about the deal after he took office. "Look at what Rabin did to me, and people say I'm not trustworthy...
...least four years, and represents a manifestation of promises made by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in his election campaign this spring. TIME's Eric Silver reports from Jerusalem that the new housing is part of a plan drawn up years ago but shelved under the Labor governments of Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres. The new apartments will be in Kiryat Sefer, a settlement of strictly observant Jews that is essentially a suburb of Jerusalem. Observant Jews traditionally have large families, creating population pressure in existing orthodox communities, so the new apartments should fill quickly. Silver says that other than being...
Rudenstine says the fact that Harvard has such a high-profile and often attracts extremely influential politicians as speakers--such as PLO leader Yasir Arafat who visited here last fall, shortly after the assassination of Israeli President Yitzhak Rabin--the University has little to fear...