Word: rabins
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...know this from the bitter experience of the Oslo accords. They were to be interim, preparatory. At the time, after the Gulf War, the P.L.O. was ostracized, exiled and broke. It was dying. Yitzhak Rabin revived it in order to produce an interlocutor for peace. But he did not go for a final agreement with Yasser Arafat. He decided to leave all the tough issues--Jerusalem, statehood, final borders, refugees--for later...
...fraught to be tackled early on, and should be postponed to allow interim agreements to foster greater trust between Israelis and Palestinians. If anything, the reverse has been true, with the result that Arafat and Barak have to make an even greater leap of faith than the late Yitzhak Rabin made with the Palestinian leader at a time when their uniformed men are as prone to fire on each other as they were a decade ago, and their supporters are more vehemently opposed than ever to compromising on the key issues. "Israel?s Lebanon withdrawal has led the Palestinians...
...original team members struggled with how to "create a fantasy world when the reality is so harsh." They almost had to scrap the project when Israeli Prime Minister Yitzak Rabin was assassinated the Saturday night before the first creative meeting for the show. While the staff predicted the arrangement would fail, each side felt the project was one Rabin would have supported, and the show went...
...challenges. Barak faces defections from his coalition, while concern over the reaction of the Palestinian street and of his Arab allies makes it almost impossible for Arafat to accept the current Israeli proposals on the West Bank and Jerusalem." The "peace of the brave" of which Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin spoke has long since followed the slain Israeli leader to the grave, and whatever messy outcome concludes the current process is likely to be, at best, the peace of the sullen. More ominously, though, the current breakdown may point to the eventual creation of a Palestinian state under conditions that...
...excellent colleague to have here," Rabin said...