Word: yitzhak
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...wise of both sides to put off resolving these divisive issues while they test each other's sincerity, and perhaps the confidence built up over the trial period will make a final settlement easier. But it will still be enormously difficult for both Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat to deliver on their opposing promises of what a peace accord will look like...
...they were one and the same thing. Thus in 1988, at the height of the Israeli crackdown in occupied Palestine, when Secretary of State George Shultz proposed talking to Said and another Palestinian-American professor, Ibrahim Abu-Lughod, to discuss his Middle East peace effort, Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir vehemently objected. The meeting took place anyway...
PUBLICLY, ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER YITZHAK RABIN HAS REjected a proposal, backed by a faction within his Cabinet, that Israel withdraw from the Gaza Strip before reaching an agreement with the Palestinians on arrangements for the West Bank. But a Palestinian leader has told TIME the plan is being discussed in secret talks between the Israelis and the Palestine Liberation Organization. Such an agreement may run into a snag named YASSER ARAFAT. The P.L.O. chief favors the deal only if he gets to head the Palestinian administration that would replace Israeli authorities in the Strip...
...Egyptian officials believed that if the Israelis went through with such a plan, it would strengthen Arab opposition to the peace talks and derail negotiations. Late Wednesday night Osama El-Baz, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's troubleshooter and confidant, arrived in Israel with a warning to Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin that the consequences of such an attack would be dire. By the end of the week, the threat seemed to have been headed...
With the articulate and popular Netanyahu at the head of the opposition, the government of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin will probably face a tougher time selling its policies. Trickiest will be Rabin's proposal to return at least part of the Golan Heights to Syria, a move opposed by Netanyahu and about half the population. Concessions for peace will have an eloquent advocate in Weizman, a former Defense Minister and chief of the air force and one of Israel's most flamboyant politicians. Once an avid hawk, Weizman now supports withdrawal from the Golan, direct negotiations with the P.L.O...