Word: rabins
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...granddaddy of the Nobel awards -- the peace prize -- will go to Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat on Friday, the Norwegian daily Aftenposten reported today. But the notion of honoring the duo, who clinched the Sept. 13, 1993 accord for Mideast peace, has reportedly tied the Nobel Peace Prize Committee in knots. Sources close to the deliberations told the Oslo paper that former Norwegian government minister Kaare Kristiansen, one of five Peace Prize Committee members and a longtime Israel supporter, has vowed to step down in protest because he still considers Arafat a terrorist. TIME Copenhagen...
Dramatic internal dissension over the past 24 hours has stalled Israel's progress toward peace with Syria, the missing-link deal in the Middle East peace. The ruling Labor Party today submitted a parliamentary resolution that would tie Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's hands in the negotiations, capping a weeks' long movement by hawkish Israelis to keep the heavily settled Golan Heights from falling under Syrian control. The move was a rebuke to Rabin, Labor's own leader. In response, he has threatened to drop the peace talks altogether -- and to call a vote of confidence in his peace plan...
Stung by the Israel-Jordan peace agreement, which acknowledges Jordan's "special role" as custodian of Jerusalem's Muslim holy sites, P.L.O. < Chairman Yasser Arafat said talks on the city's future should begin immediately. Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin refused and reaffirmed his position that Jerusalem must remain united under Israeli sovereignty...
...wave of violence on Iran and the Islamic radical groups it supports. But Assad's laissez-faire attitude toward them, especially Hizballah, the main militant organization based in Lebanon, makes it easier for them to operate. Discussing attacks on Israeli occupation forces in southern Lebanon by Hizballah last week, Rabin noted, "If you ask me if Syria can place limits on Hizballah's activities, I will say yes." But does Syria want to use this power? "My answer is: In a very limited...
...Both Rabin and Secretary of State Warren Christopher felt certain Hizballah was, as the Secretary put it, "at the bottom of some of these" bombings of Israeli and Jewish targets. "Groups like Hizballah that wreak havoc and bloodshed," he said, "and Hizballah's sponsor, Iran," must not be allowed to prevail. If their goal is to halt the moves toward peace, they probably will not succeed. Car bombings and terrorist atrocities now seem irrelevant to a Middle East so close to an overall settlement...