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...Israeli officials still thought they could overcome those issues. But in November 1995, Schwartz told them Ross would not change his mind "probably because of his reluctance to get involved in a politically sensitive situation," says the memo. After Yitzhak Rabin's assassination, Peres became prime minister. But his interests shifted, and that phase of the Israeli campaign for Rich ended in 1996. A State Department spokesman declined to comment on the memo. Ross, Indyk and Schwartz could not be reached...
...tactics, but they share the same core concerns. For example, the idea of ordering Israeli soldiers in the West Bank to systematically break the arms and legs of Palestinian demonstrators is probably beyond even Sharon, right now; yet those were the precise orders issued in 1988 by Yitzhak Rabin, more commonly remembered as the architect of the peace process...
...broke off talks without a counteroffer. Tensions rose, and Palestinians--angered by Israeli hard-liners and reputedly egged on by Arafat--launched attacks and drew blistering reprisals. The fighting killed hundreds. By December, Arafat, a 1994 Nobel Peace Prize winner who had publicly clasped the hand of Yitzhak Rabin, was appearing in public clasping a submachine...
DIED. LEAH RABIN, 72, widow of assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and blunt-spoken supporter of the Arab-Israeli peace process; of cancer; in Petach Tikva, Israel. Rabin's last public act was to ask Israeli leader Ehud Barak to send former Prime Minister Shimon Peres to negotiate with the Palestinians...
...White House dinner, just about two weeks after that first Mideast handshake with Arafat and Rabin. Afterward, Clinton took us out to the terrace to show us where the handshake had been. Then he took us into the Oval Office, showing us John Kennedy's desk and all. You had the sense that this was a guy who loved being President, and not merely for the power of it. It was also for the engagement with the ideas of it, with the possibilities. Then I saw him years later, at a fund raiser right in the middle of the Monica...