Word: rabins
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...trial, and others are to be disarmed and barred from praying at the tomb, which is holy to both Jews and Muslims. The community's greatest fear, though, is that it will be evicted en masse, an option advocated by six of the 16 members of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's Cabinet. "It's hard to imagine that the nation would allow it," says Horowitz, "but who knows? Anything might happen now." A Rabin aide tends to agree. "The Prime Minister knows that Hebron is a time bomb. He'll have to defuse it somehow, no question about...
...Hebron settlers feel they are being unfairly condemned for the sin of Baruch Goldstein, who came from neighboring Kiryat Arba. "What, we've all turned into bloodthirsty murderers?" says Horowitz. "We don't eat people." But they do incense them no end. Says the Rabin aide: "At least in other settlements, Jews can move around without rubbing it in the face of the Arabs. Not the Hebronites." When they chose their home, the Hebron Jews meant to trumpet their presence in the West Bank. Now the government must contemplate ejecting them to send as vocal a message...
...massacre of at least 30 Palestinians in Hebron two weeks ago. The Israeli government poured in troops to enforce a 24-hour curfew and sealed off the occupied territories with roadblocks, effectively confining most Palestinians to their homes. "The purpose of the curfews," said Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, "is to prevent a total uprising...
...clean up the political wreckage of the Hebron massacre. Talk of peace has been thrust aside by something close to urban warfare in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Palestinians are demanding the disarmament and dismantling of the Jewish settlements before they return to the negotiations. Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, no lover of the settlements, is under deeply conflicting political pressures about how to respond, and many feel he has failed to do enough. Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat will be damned by his own people if he does resume talks, and damned by history if he does...
...Rabin is scheduled to visit Washington next week, and the P.L.O. clearly expects Clinton and Christopher to persuade him to offer more concessions. The Secretary of State indicated that he believes the Palestinians deserve more than Rabin has offered so far. "They need to see that they can achieve a different future," Christopher said. The immediate issues of security and international observers can probably be compromised. But if Rabin refuses to talk about the settlements and the U.S. is unwilling to push him, the P.L.O. will have to decide whether there can still be a peace process...