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Until the suicide attack, Arafat had managed to put his adversities to use in his most recent meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. The Palestinian's standing in the Gaza Strip had dropped so low that the Israeli leader -- though no fan of Arafat's -- felt it necessary to prop him up with promises to ease an economic boycott and expand Palestinian autonomy, which is limited to enclaves in the Gaza Strip and Jericho, to the rest of the West Bank. "The situation is alarming," said a senior Israeli negotiator. "We are worried that our agreements will be overturned...
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin received assurances from President Clinton in Washington today that his country's $3 billion annual U.S. aid package -- the largest for any nation -- won't shrink under aGOP-controlled Congress. After the two met for 80 minutes today, Clinton said he would press for even more U.S. money for an Israeli anti-missile defense system. (The president also said he might argue for sending U.S. troops to the Mideast to monitor a possible Israeli-Syrian peace accord in the disputed Golan Heights, but then demurred, saying he'd not yet committed himself.) Incoming Senate Foreign...
With Israelis already concerned about Republican threats to slash foreign aid, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin today downplayed fears that GOP firebrand Sen. Jesse Helms -- in 60 days chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee -- might go after the historic U.S.-Israel relationship. The source: Israel's biggest newspaper, Yedioth Ahronoth, today cited a Helms staff trial balloon proposing that the U.S. forgive Israel's debt in exchange for a huge cut in its $1.2 billion annual economic aid package. Rabin -- on his way to the U.S. for a week -- told reporters that he'll meet with decision-makers...
...Galilee and became the second Arab leader -- after Egypt's President Anwar Sadat -- to visit Israel publicly. Hussein arrived in northern Israel by helicopter, then shook hands with well-wishers and even kissed a baby on the way to three hours of talks with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. The King has secretly slipped into Israel over the years for negotiations during periods when the two countries were privately chummy but officially at war. BTW: Sadat, whose visit was also televised, was assassinated in 1981 by Islamic militants opposed to the Egypt-Israel peace treaty.Post your opinion on theInternationalbulletin board...
Ending 46 years of enmity, the leaders of Israel and Jordan signed a peace treaty, witnessed by President Clinton. Jordan's Prime Minister Abdul-Salam al-Majali and Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin signed the treaty, which settles long-standing territory disputes and pledges cooperation in trade and tourism...