Word: yasser
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Yasser and Yitzhak, we send our best wishes...
...Israeli-Palestinian relations looks depressingly like the last one, filled with smoke and flame and gunshots. The agreement Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat sealed with a handshake on the White House lawn last September is supposed to change that. Next week Palestinians are to begin an experiment with self-government, and Israeli troops are scheduled to start withdrawing from the Gaza Strip and the Jericho area on the West Bank...
...structure of a new governing authority, he still prefers to be out of his office -- last week he toured Scandinavia -- and he does not delegate full decision-making powers to his aides while he is gone. In protest, two of his most trusted lieutenants, Mahmoud Abbas and Yasser Abed Rabbo, boycotted an executive committee meeting last week, forcing Arafat to postpone it for lack of a quorum...
Since Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and P.L.O. chairman Yasser Arafat sealed their historic peace agreement on Sept. 13, hardly a week has gone by without a fatal clash between Palestinians and Israelis. The depressing chronology...
Kollek had long been prepared to step down until Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin declared the race a referendum on his agreement with Yasser Arafat to begin limited Palestinian self-rule, and begged Kollek to run again. It was a mistake not even Kollek's legendary charm could reverse. Olmert wisely let the mayor's 82 years speak for themselves: he kept silent on how a conservative Likud government would run the city. While Kollek tried to deflect the inevitable snooze jokes and sought unsuccessfully to woo Palestinians in East Jerusalem, who have traditionally boycotted elections and felt ignored...