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Tactical Reasons. Premier Yitzhak Rabin apparently believes that Egypt, in return for the arms that the Soviets will undoubtedly agree to provide it, will join Moscow and Damascus in a demand for a resumption of the Geneva conference with the participation of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Rabin expects the Arabs to call for total Israeli withdrawal from occupied territories and for the establishment of a Palestinian state on the West Bank and in Gaza...
...Wrath. Lebanese police and the P.L.O. immediately blamed Israel, while rumors floated that an Israeli counterterrorist organization called the Wrath of God Squad, purportedly attached to the office of Premier Yitzhak Rabin, was responsible. Although Israeli officials denied both the existence of the squad and the participation of any military units in the attack, they did not issue a similar denial on behalf of Israel's civilian intelligence agencies...
...should there be any surprise that Yitzhak Rabin, a Sabra and inured to years of struggle, is now measuring up to the challenge these new crises pose? After all, a characteristic of the modern Israeli has been his ability to perform under extreme pressure...
Rabin was born in Jerusalem in 1922 to Russian parents (his father had spent 15 years in the U.S. before moving to Palestine during World War I to become a soldier in the Jewish Legion). At the age of 19, Yitzhak joined the elite, secret branch of the Jewish underground, the Palmach. Soon after, he met a high school girl named Leah Schlossberg, whom he married...
Jacketless and wearing an open-necked blue shirt, Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin last week discussed his country's problems with TIME Correspondents William Marmon and Marlin Levin in his spare, well-organized office in Tel Aviv. During the 90-minute interview, Rabin spoke slowly and methodically while chain-smoking from two different packs of local cigarettes...