Word: yasser
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...Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Arafat signed the peace accord." Israel has sealed off Gaza and the West Bank in the wake of the new clashes and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is cutting short a trip to Germany to return to Israel. He reportedly will meet with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat today. The violence follows Netanyahu's decision to open a second entrance to an archeological tunnel under Temple Mount. Al Aqsa, one of Islam's holiest mosques, sits atop the site, but the new entrance also seems to violate an Israeli promise not to expand its activities in disputed...
...giant leap. For the peace process, not quite a small step. Before his election as Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu had sworn he would never deign to meet Yasser Arafat, a man he considered little more than a terrorist. Last week, however, Netanyahu was finally nudged into a handshake with the Palestinian leader. It was an enormous psychological hurdle for the Israeli leader. His Palestinian partners, though, felt as if they were beginning a relationship from scratch...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fresh from his tepid handshake with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat last week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked President Clinton for help in forging a peace with Syria during an hour-long Oval Office meeting Monday afternoon, telling reporters "the United States fully understands our position." That position is awkward. As the new player at the peace table, Netanyahu is finding it difficult to carve himself a different road to peace with his neighbors. He is determined to live up to his campaign vow to give paramount priority to Israeli security, while also carrying forward his predecessor...
JERUSALEM: But does he talk the talk? Israeli Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu today shook hands with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, a man he used to deride as a terrorist and murderer. In their first meeting, the two men discussed the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, amid rumors that the United States demanded the meeting as a prerequisite for Netanyahu's trip to the United States next week. Although the two leaders settled none of the issues troubling the peace process, they did make unspecific, encouraging statements to the press. While Netanyahu praised the goal of assuring the "security and well being...
JERUSALEM: In an action reminiscent of the days of the Intifada, some two million Palestinians closed up shop Wednesday in response to Yasser Arafat's call for a general strike. Stung by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's plans for new Jewish settlements on the West Bank, the demolition of a Palestinian youth center in east Jerusalem and an Israeli unwillingness to fulfill the peace agreement, Arafat called the first general strike since May 1994. Throughout Palestinian areas of the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem, streets emptied as schools, stores and transportation shut down. "The strike...