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...will return his attention to the Middle East, departing Thursday for Damascus, Jerusalem, Egypt and the West Bank. TIME's Johanna McGeary says Peres thinks Christopher may be able to get the talks moving again: "Peres wants to use the U.S. as a key to unlock the negotiations. Unlike Rabin, whose style was to negotiate by incremental steps, Peres wants to secure a complete agreement. He's saying 'make me an offer.'" The reason, McGeary says, is political: "Peres only has a year before the election. His people think that he can gain a lot by making a deal with...
This largely abstract culture war that is being waged in Israel seems a million miles away from the cold-blooded assassination of this November. Yigal Amir, after all, murdered Yitzhak Rabin for the purest of political motives...
...assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin by a rightwing extremist was not intended as a symbolic act. Yigal Amir meant quite simply to wipe out the leader of a political party and a political process he despised. And that is what...
...cannot help but think, however, that this heinous act points to an identity crisis that permeates Israeli society today. The assassination of Rabin calls attention to the existence of two very different Israeli cultures--both Jewish--that are proving themselves fundamentally incapable of co-existence...
Clinton is also helped by an ability to deliver soaring rhetoric. This year he has given several magnificent speeches: in the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing, Clinton spoke words of comfort and pledged that the justice would be served: at Rabin's funeral, Clinton eloquently described the greatness of the slain prime minister; throughout the budget showdown, Clinton's radio addresses framed the argument as a decision between a future of e pluribus unum or a free for all in which special interests dominate...