Word: yasser
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first Arab-Israeli talks since the massacre, the political adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin met with p.l.o. chief Yasser Arafat in Cairo. The meeting was described as "a starting point" in which both sides "explained their positions and went home...
...Palestinians are demanding the disarmament and dismantling of the Jewish settlements before they return to the negotiations. Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, no lover of the settlements, is under deeply conflicting political pressures about how to respond, and many feel he has failed to do enough. Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat will be damned by his own people if he does resume talks, and damned by history if he does not. When Dr. Baruch Goldstein walked into the Hebron shrine and opened fire on rows of kneeling worshippers, his intention was not just to kill Arabs but also to destroy...
Clinton had telephoned Arafat after the massacre and expressed optimism about the talks. "I think they want to come back" to the negotiating table, the President said. But even that seeming promise from Arafat angered some of his top lieutenants. Yasser Abed Rabbo, a member of the P.L.O. executive committee, denied there was any such agreement in principle and demanded, to start with, a U.N. Security Council guarantee of international protection for Palestinians in the occupied territories...
...that followed throughout the occupied territories and in Israel. Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin vowed that the incident would not derail the peace process. Insisting that the rampage was the work of a lone "lunatic" -- though some victims say more than one gunman was involved -- Rabin phoned P.L.O. chairman Yasser Arafat with an apology: "I am ashamed as an Israeli that such a horrible incident took place here." Arafat called for disarming Israel's West Bank settlers...
...attack by Palestinians on a uniformed Israeli and opened fire. Nabil Shaath, the Palestine Liberation Organization's chief peace negotiator, claimed that eight worshippers were killed at the mosque entrance by Israeli soldiers. Even if true, these contentions would not necessarily point to the conspiracy that P.L.O. chief Yasser Arafat alleged; the few soldiers on the scene could simply have panicked as hundreds of frantic and bleeding Palestinians fled the carnage...