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Khalid Saffuri, assistant executive director of the Washington, D.C.-based American Muslim Council, heard the news as he was walking into his office. "Oh my God!" he thought. "The peace process is dead." Speaking to TIME's William Dowell Saturday, Saffuri expressed concern that Shimon Peres, who lacks Rabin's charisma, may lose the next election. He told Dowell: "If the Labor Party loses the next election, the peace process is over. I am shocked. For the first time since it began, I think the peace process is in real danger. This is a real blow. Rabin...
...peace talks." Today's violence came on the second anniversary of the Israeli-PLO accord, signed in Oslo in 1993. Hebron is the main obstacle between Israel and the PLO as they negotiate on expanding Palestinian autonomy to the West Bank. Because of the incident, Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and PLO chief Yasser Arafat postponed a meeting on Hebron until the weekend. Israel wants to retain control over much of Hebron to protect the 450 Jewish settlers living in the city of 120,000 Palestinians. The PLO insists on an army pullout like the ones planned for other Palestinian...
...Arafat's government stops militants who oppose peacemaking from attacking Israelis in the self-rule areas. "I think that the Palestinians who enter the cities understand very well that if there will be terrorism, everything that was agreed upon will not stand the test of reality," Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres told a news conference. Peres and Arafat set July 25 as a target date to signthe emerging accord, already a year overdue and one of the key preconditions for Palestinian independence.The first troop evacuations under the plan would begin by the end of August, and all Israeli troops would...
...agreeing last week to a shared set of principles to guide their talks. According to Israeli officials, the two sides for the first time have reached an implicit understanding that Israel will withdraw completely from the occupied Golan Heights. "To remain on the Golan Heights," declared Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, "is to give up on peace." Military experts from both sides will meet in Washington in late June to talk further...
...after reaching abreakthrough agreementto resume peace negotiations with Syria, Israeli officials admitted they might jettison 28 years of tough talk and withdraw from the disputed Golan Heights. "We must not allow the chance ofcomprehensive peace in the Middle Eastto slip through our fingers," Foreign Minister Shimon Peres said. "No one will forgive us if children learn one day that it was possible to end the wars . . . and we ran away from a decision." Israel, he noted, made a similar territorial concession when it returned the entire Sinai peninsula to Egypt as part of the 1979 peace treaty. But Prime Minister...