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...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...
...Yitzhak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel, said in an article in the New York Times: "Yigal Allon asked Ben-Gurion what was to be done with the civilian population. Ben-Gurion waved his hand in a gesture of `drive them out.' `Driving out' is a term with a harsh ring. Psychologically, this was one of the most difficult actions we undertook...
...Rabin, a brigade commander during the war, talks about the "great suffering" that was "inflicted upon the men taking part in the eviction action. The eviction went beyond the concepts they were used to. Prolonged propaganda activities were required after the action...to explain why we were obliged to undertake such a harsh and cruel action." Mr. Rabin finds it suitable to talk about the "great suffering" of the oppressor, the soldiers who expelled the Palestinians from their homes. Thus he emphasizes the mental "suffering" of the oppressor and neglects the harm inflicted on the oppressed and dispossessed. George Orwell...
...Mideast, Secretary of State Warren Christopher declared that Israel and its longtime archrival, Syria, soon will resume peace talks in Washington that could lead to a binding treaty this year. "There were some difficulties," said Christopher, visibly tired after hours of last-minute, back-to-back meetings with Rabin in Jerusalem and Syrian President Hafez Assad in Damascus. TIME State Department correspondent J.F.O. McAllister, who is travelling with Christopher, says the hitch -- concerning the security arrangements for a possible Israeli withdrawal from the disputed Golan Heights -- arose from cold feet and domestic qualms about peace in both countries. "When...
...philosophical implications," he says. "On a much larger scale this happens all the time. Eventually, the Israelis are going to have to learn to live with the Arabs. We have one world, and Gilligan's Island was my way of saying that." Gilligan and the Skipper as Arafat and Rabin? In the world of Sherwood Schwartz, it makes perfect sense...