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...DESCRIBED AS A "PACKAGE DEAL," THOUGH its real design was to forestall a package of economic sanctions by the U.N. Security Council and return attention to stalled Middle East peace talks. In the first policy shift since their expulsion in December, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin offered to repatriate 101 of 396 Palestinians still stranded in southern Lebanon. The rest, Rabin said, could return after a maximum of one year instead...
...they try not to point fingers and quarrel in public. But this time the diplomatic niceties slipped away in the middle of an emotional dispute about the 415 Palestinians Israel declared to be fundamentalist leaders and deported to Lebanon. Washington has leaned hard on Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin to take all or some of them back. Israel responded by implying that the U.S. was complicit in Hamas' terrorism...
...reverse the government's decision to deport the Muslim fundamentalists who are accused of inciting violence in Israel and the occupied territories. No, the Palestine Liberation Organization said, it would no longer delay pressing its demand for sanctions against Israel at the United Nations. No, said Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, he would not give in and take back the exiles despite that threat...
Four Ministers in Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's Cabinet recently proposed considering precisely that. Rabin refused even to discuss a move that would create an immense security threat along the Gaza border. But Hamas clearly has the Israeli government's attention -- a sharp departure from the past, when security officials believed the fundamentalists to be more interested in spiritual matters and social work than political or military struggle. The Israelis treated the movement with benign neglect and hoped that it would erode support for the P.L.O...
...about 13,000 Israeli settlers, in contrast to 140,000 such settlers in the West Bank. Despite the Golan's symbolic significance to both sides, its importance to Israeli security in the age of the missile has diminished. Though risking loss of support at home, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin has pledged to return part of the Golan in exchange for peace. Syria demands all the heights, but Assad has shown flexibility on other issues. Both sides admit that U.S. commitment and pressure are key to what happens next. For that reason, neither side wants to unsettle negotiations until more...