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Dramatic internal dissension over the past 24 hours has stalled Israel's progress toward peace with Syria, the missing-link deal in the Middle East peace. The ruling Labor Party today submitted a parliamentary resolution that would tie Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's hands in the negotiations, capping a weeks' long movement by hawkish Israelis to keep the heavily settled Golan Heights from falling under Syrian control. The move was a rebuke to Rabin, Labor's own leader. In response, he has threatened to drop the peace talks altogether -- and to call a vote of confidence in his peace plan...
Stung by the Israel-Jordan peace agreement, which acknowledges Jordan's "special role" as custodian of Jerusalem's Muslim holy sites, P.L.O. < Chairman Yasser Arafat said talks on the city's future should begin immediately. Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin refused and reaffirmed his position that Jerusalem must remain united under Israeli sovereignty...
...Syria, the new surge of peacemaking in the Middle East is mostly a spectator sport. When the exuberant Israeli-Jordanian summit took place in Washington last week, Syrians gathered in hushed groups to stare at their television sets as Jordan's King Hussein and Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin warmly pledged an end to a state of war and the beginning of an era of cooperation. Following so quickly on the return of Yasser Arafat and officials of his Palestine Liberation Organization to the Gaza Strip and Jericho, last week's handshake confirmed that the mood in the region...
...minutes after Israel's Knesset formally approved a peace agreement with Jordan. The veteran pilot swooped low for the first time over Jerusalem's Muslim holy sites, over which Jordan will soon resume its ancient caretaker role as part of the pact with the Jewish state. Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin radioed his greetings to the King: "Your majesty, welcome to Israel, even though...
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin told Israel Radio that he'd made an agreement to "some signs of components of peace" with Syria, and Israeli officials said Egypt would join in the efforts to complete the Mideast peace circle. Rabin offered no details and said there were still "huge gaps" between his government and Syrian President Hafez Assad over ending nearly half a century of conflict. On Sunday, Rabin will meet with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who shuttled to Syria last week. Days later, Rabin will confer with Secretary of State Warren Christopher in an attempt to break the deadlock...