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...Arafat and other Arab leaders would not even utter the word Israel. When they absolutely had to name the enemy, they referred to "the Zionist entity." On the Israeli side, former Prime Minister Golda Meir denied there were any such people as Palestinians, and one of her successors, Yitzhak Shamir, implied that Palestinians are not quite human; he described them as "grasshoppers compared...
...were one and the same thing. Thus in 1988, at the height of the Israeli crackdown in occupied Palestine, when Secretary of State George Shultz proposed talking to Said and another Palestinian-American professor, Ibrahim Abu-Lughod, to discuss his Middle East peace effort, Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir vehemently objected. The meeting took place anyway...
...talks more about peace thanYitzhak Shamir did. But he talks about a partial withdrawal. If he sticks to this logic, there will not be peace, because we cannot give up our land. If he does not agree to complete withdrawal from the Golan, I believe he will lose the support of the Israeli political parties that demand it. There are even rabbis, including the Chief Rabbi, who have said that the Golan is not Israel's land...
There was even a sign of possible progress on what has been one of the most intractable of all Middle East issues: the Golan Heights. Former Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir had insisted that the area was so vital to Israel's security that Jerusalem could never give the tiniest bit back to Syria. But his successor, Yitzhak Rabin, says the principle of trading land for peace applies to the area, and Israel need not "cling to every single centimeter...
...Israel is genuine, and the President is eager to reward every accommodating step that Israel takes. The withholding of U.S. loan guarantees earlier this year after the Jewish state refused to freeze its settlements in the occupied territories guaranteed a lengthy chill in relations between Bush and Yitzhak Shamir. The only graceful exit from this impasse seemed a defeat of Shamir's Likud at the polls. Since that is exactly what happened, Bush took pains at a Kennebunkport summit last week to emphasize his warm feelings for Rabin, whose government has canceled Likud's plans to build 6,500 houses...