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...settlement remains and, according to Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, will not be relocated. While Rabin has no great affection for the place, he believes that dismantling it would amount to rewarding the militants, and thus encourage attacks against other Jewish settlements. Says Uri Dromi, director of Israel's Government Press Office: "The message we want to send is that to get something out of Israel, you have to sit down and talk." Under the limited self-rule agreement that Israel signed with Yasser Arafat, the fate of all the settlements is to be decided in negotiations, scheduled to begin...
...agree on anything, it is that Syria can't be trusted. The President won't say so publicly. The incoming chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee says it all the time. Despite their shared skepticism, Clinton and Helms view the future differently. In concert with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Clinton is pushing an Israeli-Syrian peace treaty. Like Israeli opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu, Helms dismisses the process as a "fraud." Syria, says Netanyahu, wants Israelis "resting in peace, not living in peace...
While some Israeli commentators see the conflict in the Gaza Strip as the beginning of the end for Hamas and other fundamentalist radicals, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's government is alarmed by the developments. "Last Friday opened Israeli minds to how fragile the whole peace process is," said Uri Dromi, director of the Government Press Office. "And Rabin is also invested in this. What can he tell the Israeli people? That he was wrong to make peace with Arafat...
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, in Washington on a two-day visit, got some good news from President Clinton, who said he would seek to include U.S. troops in any peacekeeping force in the Golan Heights. The chairman- presumptive of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, Republican Jesse Helms, had earlier raised questions about the wisdom of such a U.S. mission and called the Israeli-Syrian peace negotiations a "fraud...
...terrorist acts and protests have fatally weakened PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat's grip on his people, began a major, three-day policy debate over whether they can pull their troops from the West Bank before Palestinian elections -- a key part of the historic 1993 Mideast peace accord. Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin said today that Israel had "no interest in dragging things out" but effectively no-commented on whether Israel would try to leave some troops in Palestinian areas after the elections, most likely this month. Arafat today instructed the negotiators who'll represent him when autonomy talks reopen Tuesday...