Word: yitzhak
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...symbolism surrounding Bill Clinton's witness-for-peace visit to the Middle East was almost too perfect. At the desert border crossing where he met Jordan's King Hussein and Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin to co-sign their treaty of friendship, the table was set up on an asphalt strip in the middle of a minefield. An area had been paved and fenced in specifically for the ceremony. "Walk 15 yards beyond that barbed wire," a U.S. Secret Service agent warned onlookers, "and you won't be coming back...
...leaders of Hamas -- the militant Islamic group opposed to the Israeli-PLO accord and responsible forthree serious attacks on Israelislast month -- today said they wanted to open a dialogue with the Jewish state. But Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin immediately snubbed the first-ever offer, calling Hamas "the enemy of peace" and saying that the only way to deal with the group "is to wage a war of annihilation against it." The two leaders, both moderate clerics, said they were responding to a recent request for talks by Israeli Police Minister Moshe Shahal. TIME Jerusalem Bureau ChiefLisa Beyersays Israel sees...
Hamas, until now, had been a frightening but amateurish opponent. With its October operations the group graduated to a whole new class. "We now have an internal security problem of emergency proportions," said Joseph Alpher, director of Tel Aviv University's Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies. Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin will have a harder time selling future accords with the Palestinians to anxious Israelis...
...peace treaty, the first such pact between Israel and an Arab nation since the treaty with Egypt in 1979. After 46 years in an official state of war, the reconciliation will boost commerce and facilitate travel between the two countries. President Clinton will join Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Jordan's King Hussein for the official signing ceremony on Wednesday on the border between the two countries...
...many times."What can be gleaned from the unprecedented closed-door talks, she says, is that negotiations over the last piece of the Mideast peace puzzle have shifted to top levels. Sources on all sides tell Marlowe only a handful of officials -- Assad, his foreign minister, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Secretary of State Warren Christopher, a U.S. envoy and Clinton himself -- are in on the details. Still, U.S. officials told her today they expect a breakthrough if not a full treaty by year's end. Syrian officials, for their part, said it'll be a lot longer than that...