Word: shimon
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...begin a new future. Though negotiators had still not resolved all the details of Palestinian self-rule despite six months of wrangling, they agreed to worry later about the few outstanding issues and get on with the long-delayed transfer of power, beginning this week. Said Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, after sealing the date with P.L.O. chief Yasser Arafat in Cairo: "It is, I think, the end of a long voyage and the beginning of a new chapter between the Palestinians and ourselves...
...after the attacks, Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres said that Israel "will do whatever [it] can to continue the peace momentum." Meanwhile, Yasser Arafat passed on a chance to publicly condemn the attacks, and under extreme pressure, more than two days after the Afula incident, the PLO simply stated that it "expresses its regrets for the incident which took place in Afula and which cost the life of a number of citizens." After the massacre, Yitzhak Rabin had a very different reaction: "As a Jew, as an Israeli, I am shamed by the disgrace imposed upon us by a degenerate...
...Hebron. A "temporary international presence" made up of 160 observers from Norway, Denmark and Italy will enter the Hebron area by mid-April. Earlier in the week in Gaza, Israeli undercover agents disguised as Palestinians killed six members of the Fatah wing of the P.L.O. Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres called the killings "very regrettable...
...Israeli government's response to such incidents has been almost nonexistant. Its most usual retort is to reassert that the Israeli armed forces have full authority for the security of the region. Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, on his recent visit to Harvard, reiterated that Palestinians cannot be trusted with issues of security and that Israel should be responsible for the protection of Israelis as well as Palestinians...
...Cairo last week Arafat and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres shook hands on a new agreement they insisted had brought the stalled peace plan much closer to fruition. Negotiated with the help of Egyptian Foreign Minister Amr Moussa and President Hosni Mubarak, the accord settled a number of sticky disputes that have delayed the transfer of power, notably concerns about the safety of Jewish settlers in the enclaves and the control of border crossings into the occupied territories. But the pact leaves to further negotiations numerous other issues, including the size of the Jericho district and economic relationships. Until they...