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...bombings brought a bloody end to Israel?s peace talks with Syria, Benjamin Netanyahu says he's ready to resume talks with Syrian President Hafez Assad. Although Netanyahu said he would not set preconditions for talks, preconditions for peace appear still on the table. According to the Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronot, Netanyahu told both President Clinton and Secretary of State Madeleine Albright in meetings Thursday that "you must make it clear to Assad that he must think of other options -- the option of a total withdrawal from the Golan does not exist from our point of view." It probably...
...boots and bags are black, shiny and made of tough hide--tough enough to be labeled "Nazi leather" by some enterprising salesfolk. The words are offensive to begin with. But in Israel, where the Holocaust is living memory, they are abominable. The daily Yediot Aharonot created a stir as it revealed the use of the appellation by a boutique belonging to the trendy Tel Aviv chain Grosso Modo. To reporter Sigalit Shahor's astonishment, a clerk boasted, "It is high quality and doesn't get dirty--all the boots worn by the Nazis in World War II were made...
...Yisrael Lederman, who asked, "Do you want tea?" Dayan responded, "Please." Then Lederman, later revealed to be a right-wing extremist and convicted murderer, allegedly tossed the steaming brew into her face. Dayan suffered second-degree burns; Lederman turned himself in two days later. Dayan lamented in the daily Yediot Aharonot that nothing had improved since the assassination. Political extremism in Israel, she said, is "a hothouse that is continuing to breed something terrible. If we do not do anything substantial, we will fall apart...
...that Israel would return the entire Golan Heights to Syria in exchange for peace, a prominent Israeli journalist said Wednesday. Rabin even kept the pledge secret from then-foreign minister Shimon Peres, Orly Azulai-Katz wrote in a new book about Peres, excerpts of which were printed in the Yediot Ahronot daily on Wednesday. Azulai-Katz says Peres was upset when he found out about the deal after he took office. "Look at what Rabin did to me, and people say I'm not trustworthy," the book quotes Peres as saying in reference to his long-standing rivalry with Rabin...
Terrorism or no, the surge of grief for Rabin and emotional support for his cause cannot continue long at its present intensity. When it ebbs, Peres will again have to face the fact that Israel is a nation sharply and closely divided. The Yediot Aharonot poll shows that three-quarters of the public favors the peace process at the moment, but over the long run nearly half have expressed opposition...