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...Minister Yitzhak Rabin came under withering fire from opposition parties on both the right and left. Hard-liners charged the army was not doing enough. Doves attacked Rabin for the mounting death toll. "This policy is not only killing Palestinians but also the souls of Israeli soldiers," said Yossi Sarid of the left-wing Citizen's Rights Movement. Hecklers finally drove Rabin from the parliamentary chamber...
...concerns. They feared that the attack might backfire, unleashing a vengeful and more virulent wave of violence in the territories, strengthening extremist forces within the P.L.O. and weakening the already thin prospects for a U.S.-sponsored regional peace plan. "Abu after Abu can be liquidated," warned Knesset Member Yossi Sarid. "But this will not liquidate the Palestinian problem...
...scrap a warplane that has become a symbol of national pride and a key source of jobs. The need to make that choice has triggered a vitriolic debate in which military and economic issues have frequently given way to pure emotion. "The real question," shouted Knesset Member Yosi Sarid last month, "is whether we become a state which has a fighter plane or a fighter plane which has a state." Even Rabin admits that the choice is the "most difficult and important decision faced by an Israeli government in more than a decade...
According to the third principle, "the final decision [which relates to the form in which the Palestinian Arab Nation will realize its right to self-determination] must be taken--when the time comes--by the Palestinian Arab nation itself" However, Sarid indicated that there are many in Israel, the Arab world, and elsewhere who believe that the solution should take into account "the close links and the strong ties between the West Bank and the East Bank--the Kingdom of Jordan...
Prof. Khalidi declared--to the astonishment and relief of several Israelis in the Forum Room that he had no problem in accepting the formula that was presented by Yossi Sarid, in its precise language...