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...very big gamble. Though Rabin's martyrdom has given the peace process a boost, says a U.S. Pentagon official, "the question is, will it outlast the next Palestinian car bomb that kills Israelis? Nobody knows." Earlier terrorist attacks that have killed 150 Israelis since the original Rabin-Arafat accord in September 1993 did more than anything else to turn almost half the Israeli public against those accords...
Terrorism or no, the surge of grief for Rabin and emotional support for his cause cannot continue long at its present intensity. When it ebbs, Peres will again have to face the fact that Israel is a nation sharply and closely divided. The Yediot Aharonot poll shows that three-quarters of the public favors the peace process at the moment, but over the long run nearly half have expressed opposition...
TIME: How do you think Rabin's death will affect the peace process...
Arafat: These are not bilateral agreements. These are international agreements. Who signed the last one? Me and Rabin. Then President [Hosni] Mubarak, King Hussein, [Secretary of State Warren] Christopher, [Russian Foreign Minister Andrei] Kozyrev, [Spanish Prime Minister Felipe] Gonzalez [Marquez] in the name of the European Union...
Arafat: And Hamas didn't sign. But I am representing the Palestinians. And Rabin was representing the Israelis. TIME: Are you satisfied with your own security...