Word: yitzhak
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...AVIV, Israel: With the Mideast peace process teetering, Israel commemorated the one-year anniversary of the assassination of one of the architects of the policy, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Marchers carried torches and signs declaring "Peace will avenge his blood" as they walked amid heavy security from the site of Rabin's shooting on the steps of city hall to the hospital where he died 90 minutes later. Rabin's assassination, at the hands of a nationalist Jew opposed to his peace efforts with the Arabs, occurred on November 4, but according to the Hebrew calendar the one-year anniversary...
...sounds of former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin singing the Jewish Song of Peace wafted through the courtyard of Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel during a memorial service for Rabin last night, one Jewish calendar year after his death...
Mubarak: To freeze the peace talks--thinking you will maintain security first--you will keep working on security until the end of the world. When you are implementing peace agreements, there will be violence. It happened with [the late Prime Minister Yitzhak] Rabin. There will be some sacrifices. But it is worth...
...wisdom of opening the tunnel was called into question by no less than Netanyahu's Defense Minister, Yitzhak Mordechai, a retired general who allowed that he couldn't say "with finality that...all considerations were taken into account." The army chief of staff, Lieut. General Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, said he had not been consulted. And Ami Ayalon, head of the Shin Bet, Israel's internal intelligence agency, said his recommendation that the opening be paired with a concession to the Palestinians was ignored...
...little more than talk softly and wring its hands. It has little leverage with Netanyahu. The relationship between an Israeli Prime Minister and a U.S. President is always crucial--and that between Clinton and Netanyahu is merely cordial. The warm affection between Bill Clinton and the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin will never be replicated with Netanyahu. "What you've got here is two individuals who are wary of individuals like themselves," says one White House official. "Ultimately it's a matter of shared motives--that's the mark of deep common chemistry, and that's what's missing." Until...