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...this incident that Dole had in mind as he flew back from South Dakota on Nov. 4 to join the U.S. delegation to Yitzhak Rabin's funeral. "I told them, 'No more of those pledges,'" he said. "That's it." And then, for the second time in three months, Dole mentioned a man named Rick Smith. Richard Norton Smith directs the Ronald Reagan presidential library, and has been close to Dole since helping the candidate write his book, The Doles: Unlimited Partners. Smith is one of a small cadre of Dole friends and Senate staff members who have been doing...
...BLOOD OF MARTYRS HAS fertilized political and religious causes for thousands of years. So too in the case of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. His murder by an anti-Arab Jewish fanatic gave immediate new life to the cause of peace with Israel's Palestinian and Arab neighbors that Rabin had determinedly pushed...
...Palestine Liberation Organization chief to Rabin's funeral. But an Israeli military helicopter flew him into Tel Aviv Thursday night to pay a condolence call at Leah Rabin's apartment. Arafat told Mrs. Rabin that her husband was a "hero of peace" and a "dear friend." She responded that "Yitzhak saw in you, Mr. Arafat, a partner in making peace." If tact forbade either to mention what both well knew--that Rabin had brought himself only with the utmost reluctance to shake Arafat's hand--well, good manners are not the least important ingredient in peacemaking...
THOUGH THE ASSASSIN WHO KILLED YITZHAK RABIN was a stranger to me, I feel in some sense that I know him, know something of the ecstatic rage and false love that summoned him to try to become a savior of Israel...
...shocking assassination of the Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin on November 4 is undoubtedly a huge loss to Israel, the Jewish community and the peace process in general. Rabin was not only an initiator and an architect of the ongoing peace process with Palestinians and other Arab countries, but also instrumental in overcoming many of the current domestic obstacles facing both Israelis and Palestinians as they march in the direction of peace. I was hardly surprised when the New York Times and the Boston Globe quickly alerted their readers in front-page articles to the parallels between the assassination...