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...students' tuition and widows' pensions in the occupied territories, which hurt his popular support. The militant fundamentalists of Hamas were winning converts and beating his candidates in elections for chambers of commerce, labor unions and student organizations. Bankrupt, dismissed by some U.S. officials as a spent force, Arafat needed Rabin. And in turn Rabin needed the Chairman. Like Arafat, Rabin had not intended to make a life of soldiering; he too wanted to go to the U.S. to become an engineer. But he had earned a reputation as a gifted military commander in the Palmach, the commando unit...
...developed a feeling of a besieged country, that the whole world is against us. This created a certain national psychology: Don't trust anyone; everybody is against you. It created a mistrust of peace.'' As a sabra -- a native-born Israeli -- Rabin does not have the refugee mind-set shared by the country's founding fathers. They feared any concession toward the Arabs was the first step toward annihilation. Rabin also had a special plea for the Palestinians. ''You who have never known a single day of freedom and joy in your lives: listen to us, if only this once...
...December TIME'S Jim Gaines, Joelle Attinger, Lisa Beyer and Dean Fischer met separately with Rabin and Arafat and asked them about common issues. Excerpts from the two interviews...
...world. RABIN: Let the Palestinians run their affairs, create a situation in which no Israeli soldier will have to maintain public order, whether in Gaza or the West Bank. Let's give it to the Palestinians, as long as there is security for us. No more occupying another people. ARAFAT: What is important for me is to fix my people on the map of the Middle East and not to be like those who have been canceled out in international agreements, like many communities after World War I and II. It is the continuous tragedy of my people that...
...skin. They had, over the years, arrived at stalemate, a no-exit of chronic hatred. The struggles (whether to liberate one's own people, or to suppress the dangerous other tribe, or simply to survive in the moral airlessness) became prisons. The Men of the Year of 1993 -- Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat, F.W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela -- did nothing more and nothing less than find a way to break out. By tradition, TIME's Men and Women of the Year are those who have most influenced history, for good or ill, in the previous 12 months. By that...