Word: waxman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...image provoked an unusually fiery and emotional response in Israel. On Thursday 50,000 worshippers gathered at Jerusalem's Western Wall to pray for the young man's safety. Waxman's mother Esther, an English teacher who emigrated to Israel in 1969 from New York City, reminded Washington that Nahshon held dual citizenship and pleaded for the U.S. to "get my son released." Even Sheik Yassin, the incarcerated and quadriplegic spiritual leader of Hamas, declared on Israeli television, "Killing him is not useful, and our religion orders us to take care of him and his life...
...drama began on an unseasonably balmy Sunday afternoon as Nahshon Waxman, 19, a corporal in the Israeli army, was heading for his girlfriend's house. Hitchhiking in central Israel, he was picked up by activists from the militant Islamic movement Hamas. Two days later they named their ransom: the release from Israeli jails of their spiritual leader Sheik Ahmed Yassin and 200 other Palestinian and Lebanese prisoners. Waxman was hardly the first Israeli to be taken hostage. Fundamentalists from the West Bank and Gaza Strip have seized nine others during the past five years, killing all of them. But there...
Rabin insisted that his information made it clear that Waxman was being held in Gaza, over which Arafat was responsible. And so the Israeli Prime Minister made the kidnapping an issue of Arafat's authority and good faith and held the Palestinian leader "completely responsible" for the soldier's well-being. A further expansion of Palestinian self-rule, he said, rested on Waxman's safe release. Even as Israel's leader congratulated his Palestinian counterpart on the Nobel Prize, he issued a warning: "If there will not be security, there will also not be peace...
Rabin warned that Waxman's death would have "the gravest possible effect" on future Israeli-Palestinian relations: Israeli government officials suggested they might freeze plans to expand Palestinian authority in the West Bank. To highlight the threat, Rabin withdrew his delegation from talks in Cairo aimed at broadening self-rule. This was a marked departure for the Israeli leader, who previously had insisted on keeping negotiations going despite violence between the parties. U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher joined in pressuring Arafat, not only in the name of peace but for the sake of an American life. Arafat was motivated...
...mean to imply that Arafat ordred the kindapping he is responsible for controlling terrorist activities in the self-rule areas of Gaza and Jericho. It is his negligence that has allowed Hamas to flourish over the past several months, and the murder of Sergeant Waxman is a direct result of Arafat's irresponsible conduct...