Word: shimon
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HEBRON, West Bank: The stabbing of an Israeli settler by a Palestinian in Hebron on Wednesday added fuel to an already raging inferno of debate over Israel's agreement to pull out its troops from the city. Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres is under increasing pressure from religious and right-wing parties to delay the troop withdrawal until after elections May 29. The parties hope the right- wing Likud party will win the election and back out of the pullout agreement with Palestinians. "Hebron is a tinderbox," Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer says. "It is a tense place even under...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: President Clinton began two days of Middle East peace talks Monday by signing a joint declaration on terrorism with Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres. In finalizing an anti-terrorism accord begun at a March meeting in Egypt, President Clinton pledged $100 million in aid to help Israel to fight terrorists. Under the deal, the U.S. will provide Israel with equipment and technological assistance while also sharing intelligence resources and experts. It allows for the extradition of terrorists and forms a joint committee on counter-terrorism. Peace in the region will not come by "turning the other cheek," said...
What do I fear about Peres?" concerned about answering at all, Yitzhak Rabin mulled the question carefully. This was in the mid-1980s, and Rabin was hardly a disinterested observer. He and Shimon Peres had been bitter Labor Party rivals throughout their careers. Both men were still angling to lead Israel, and Rabin was reluctant to offend needlessly. "O.K.," he finally said, "but this is for later. You'll talk to me first...
...never got the chance. Today, though, with Rabin a martyr and Peres his successor, what was said back then is worth recording. Sitting in his spare Tel Aviv office--his clean desk marred only by an ashtray and the cigarettes he chain-smoked to distraction--Rabin began: "Shimon is in love with an idea, land for peace. Sometimes that's fine. Obviously we wouldn't have peace with Egypt if we hadn't given up the Sinai. But I worry that in seeking a larger peace, Peres, to prove that he's tough, might overreact in a way that...
JERUSALEM: Secretary of State Warren Christopher and Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres announced a cease-fire in Israeli's deadly conflict with Hizballah. The announcement comes after Christopher conducted an intense week of diplomatic shuttle missions with Peres, Syrian President Hafez Assad and Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. Christopher said that the today's agreement goes beyond the 1993 verbal agreement between Hizballah and Israel not to shell civilians on either side of the Lebanese-Israeli border. Under the deal, Hizballah will halt attacks into northern Israel, while Israel will not target civilian areas in Lebanon. A sticking point...