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...YITZHAK RABIN Election prospects for Israel's beleaguered PM are brighter following opposition rift...
Syria rejected an Israeli demand for athree-year test of peaceful relations before it withdraws from the Golan Heights, then suggested that Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was seeking toundermine peace talksscheduled for June 27 in Washington. "Israel has resumed the policy of maneuvering and scattered the wave of optimism . . . and put all peace efforts exerted by the international community in jeopardy," Syria's official government daily, Tishrin, wrote today.TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyersays the statement contradicts positive signals that Syrian President Hafez Assad has sent through diplomatic channels in the wake of Secretary of State Warren Christopher...
...poll conducted in late April found that only 45% of Israelis still favored the peace accord. At the time it was signed, 61% favored it. Other recent polls show Israelis consistently preferring Benjamin Netanyahu, leader of the opposition Likud Party, over Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Netanyahu is harshly critical of the peace agreement and has said he considers it a dead letter because of Palestinian violations. Most Palestinians -- 69% by one survey -- approved of the agreement when it was made. Now only 40% report satisfaction with it, according to a poll released last week by the Jerusalem Media and Communications...
...startling about-face at an emergency meeting, the Cabinet of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin suspended the government's seizure of 131 acres in Palestinian areas of East Jerusalem for the purpose of building mostly Jewish housing. The plan had stirred widespread international protest and threatened Rabin's government with a no-confidence vote...
...children learn one day that it was possible to end the wars . . . and we ran away from a decision." Israel, he noted, made a similar territorial concession when it returned the entire Sinai peninsula to Egypt as part of the 1979 peace treaty. But Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin still faces widespread opposition among Israelis afraid of surrendering the Golan, where Syrian gunners used to attack northern Israeli settlements before Israel captured it in the 1967 Mideast war. "It's clear thatin these meetingshe has already given up the Golan Heights, without which there can be no security," said Benjamin Netanyahu...