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After almost five weeks of negotiations the Rabin government agreed to allow 160 international observers into the West Bank and Gaza Strip and to "explore a possible expansion of scope" of the self-rule negotiations beyond areas already agreed upon. These concessions prompted the Palestinians to resume talks. Rabin's reluctant acquiescence to the international observers, in the face of heated opposition in Israel, allowed the first non-Israeli deployment in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The deployment crossed a symbolic barrier, as Israel has never before allowed outside forces to tamper with its internal security...

Author: By Mayer Bick, | Title: Speed Up the Peace Process | 4/13/1994 | See Source »

...chance to publicly condemn the attacks, and under extreme pressure, more than two days after the Afula incident, the PLO simply stated that it "expresses its regrets for the incident which took place in Afula and which cost the life of a number of citizens." After the massacre, Yitzhak Rabin had a very different reaction: "As a Jew, as an Israeli, I am shamed by the disgrace imposed upon us by a degenerate murderer....To him and those like him we say: You are not part of the Zionist enterprise. You are a foreign implant. You are an errant weed...

Author: By Mayer Bick, | Title: Speed Up the Peace Process | 4/13/1994 | See Source »

...words of the New Republic staff editorial written following the Hebron massacre, which recently rang too true: "When, one needs to ask, did a Middle Eastern government or a Palestinian leader, or even a group of Arab intellectuals utter a word of contrition--to say nothing of words like Rabin's--about any of the scores of incidents in which Jewish innocents were cut down no less brutally than the men at prayer in Hebron, and cut down on orders from some official high command at that? The answer is: never...

Author: By Mayer Bick, | Title: Speed Up the Peace Process | 4/13/1994 | See Source »

Jerusalem -- At Israeli army headquarters in the Gaza Strip, workers are painting walls and fixing things up. It's not because they plan to stay -- they're making repairs for the P.L.O. to take over after they leave, which could happen soon. To show goodwill, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin ordered troops to turn over facilities in pristine condition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Informed Sources: Mar. 28, 1994 | 3/28/1994 | See Source »

...things that flowed from Desert Storm were marvelous," says Bush. "It led to the Madrid meeting on the Middle East, and that led to the handshake on the White House lawn between Arafat and Rabin. And NAFTA was our baby. Clinton, once he got through trying to get by the labor and environmental crowd, worked like hell for it. Give him credit. But it was our deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: The Grandfather in Chief | 3/28/1994 | See Source »

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