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Still, Premier Yitzhak Rabin promised: "They will be punished"-but he did not say when...
...present ambassador carefully avoids the direct U.S. politicking engaged in by his predecessor Yitzhak Rabin. Under Rabin, the embassy openly supported the 1972 candidacy of Richard Nixon, thus offending much of the U.S. Jewish population. Rabin supported Nixon's Viet Nam policy precisely at a time when some antiwar Jews were
...much to Syria before Geneva, particularly since it is more difficult to negotiate territorial adjustment on the Golan Heights than on the broad Sinai desert. Kissinger, who had hoped to keep the Syrians soothed until he could finish Israeli-Egyptian negotiations, got scant help last week from Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin. Visiting settlements built on the Golan Heights after the 1967 war, Rabin stressed their security value for Israel and added: "We did not build settlements here in order to evacuate them...
...Israel's soft-spoken but highly articulate Defense Minister Shimon Peres, 51, the second most important man in the Israeli Cabinet, has emerged as his country's leading hawk on the crucial question of how to negotiate with the Arabs. He is thus a man that Premier Yitzhak Rabin (not to mention Kissinger) must reckon with. Peres almost defeated Rabin for the premiership last April, and is a plausible candidate to replace him if Rabin should falter...
...Egypt, and almost immediately began to hear some freewheeling suggestions. One Israeli diplomat offhandedly suggested that peace might be easier to attain if athletic contests could be arranged between the two countries. "That's not a bad idea for a settlement," said one weary aide to Premier Yitzhak Rabin at the end of the talks. "We could let our national football teams beat their brains out against each other and send the armies home to watch...