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Mail & Guardian
April 27, 2018
[U.S. President Bill Clinton (C) looks on as Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (L) and Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) leader Yasser Arafat shake hands after the signing of the Israeli-PLO peace accord at the White House in this September 13 1993 (Gary Hershorn/Reuters)]. The abortive processÃâà...
The Independent
April 27, 2018
Then there was the famous handshake on the lawn of the White House between Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat confirming a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians in 1993 that, whatever else happened, did not produce peace. Rabin was assassinatedÃâà...
Buffalo Reflex
April 27, 2018
For example, in 1994 Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and two Israelis, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin, shared the Nobel Peace Prize for “their efforts to create peace in the Middle East.” But there was no lasting peace. President Bill Clinton offered Arafat the best deal he could ever possibly get, butÃâà...
ABC News
April 26, 2018
Secret talks on Israeli-Palestinian peace that began in Oslo, Norway, led to a famous handshake between Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat, overseen by President Bill Clinton. The Accord provided for the creation of a Palestinian self-government and withdrawal of theÃâà...
http://hamodia.com
April 25, 2018
“Champagne” was the codename of Shin Bet agent Avishai Raviv, who fomented rightwing violence and was accused of prior knowledge of the plot to assassinate Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin but not acting to prevent it. Attorney Adi Keidar said that “the phenomenon of security forces employing agentsÃâà...
BBC News
April 24, 2018
In September 1993, on the lawn of the White House in Washington, an agreement was signed to bring about peace between Israel and the Palestinians. In the months leading up to the historic handshake between Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, Norway had beenÃâà...
Al-Monitor
April 10, 2018
The late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who was known for his off-the-cuff “witticisms,” once declared that he would like to see Gaza drown in the sea. Just like that, nothing more, nothing less. I also remember a conversation that then-opposition leader Shimon Peres and I had with Egyptian President AnwarÃâà...
SCNow
April 3, 2018
During his career, Golden has interviewed Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush; Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger, Alexander Haig, George Shultz and Lawrence Eagleburger; Israeli Prime Ministers Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Shamir; and SovietÃâà...
Ventura County Reporter
March 21, 2018
In the cigarette smoke-filled Israeli cabinet room, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (Lior Ashkenazi) searches for a response that would neither give in to the hostage takers nor endanger Israeli lives. Defense Minister Shimon Peres, played by veteran British actor Eddie Marsan, is steadfast, almost sneering,Ãâà...
Charleston Post Courier
March 18, 2018
Infighting — among hijackers over strategy, and between Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (a marvelous Lior Ashkenazi) and Defense Minister Shimon Peres (Eddie Marsan) over whether to negotiate — lends drama to the standoff. For several days, nothing happens, as the hijackers demand that IsraelÃâà...
JNS.org
March 18, 2018
He wrote the 1974 amendment named after him: Jackson-Vanik, which blocked trade benefits to countries that denied their people the right to emigrate. The amendment was intended to pressure the Soviet Union to allow Soviet Jews to emigrate to Israel. As Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin wrote, “thisÃâà...
HollywoodChicago.com
March 16, 2018
CHICAGO – What would you expect from an event subject that has been already rendered four times on film, and deals with terrorism, hijacking and government negotiation? “7 Days in Entebbe” contained all of this, and yet still maintained a separate energy and cinematic artistry. In many ways, it's one ofÃâà...
BU News Service
March 16, 2018
The Honorable George J. Mitchell, former United States Senate Majority Leader, opened the 4th Annual Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Lecture at the BU Elie Wiesel Center Wednesday. Mitchell was elected to a full term in the Senate in 1982 and served as U.S. Special Envoy for Middle East Peace from 2009 toÃâà...
TheStranger.com
March 14, 2018
We meet all participants in the conflict, including Israel's prime minister Yitzhak Rabin (Lior Ashkenazi) and minister of defense Shimon Peres (Eddie Marsan), Ugandan dictator Idi Amin (Nonso Anozie), and of course the dozens of miserable passengers, some of whom may or may not be Israeli spies.
Haaretz
March 5, 2018
... captives and soldiers missing in action. He was also involved in sensitive issues such as bringing Ethiopian Jews to Israel in 1991. As a diplomat, Lubrani served as ambassador to Iran, Uganda and Ethiopia, and also as envoy for prime ministers Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin, Ehud Barak and others.
The Massachusetts Daily Collegian
March 5, 2018
This was the command that General (and former Prime Minister) Yitzhak Rabin gave his officers during the First Intifada—a mass wave of protests where Palestinians took to the streets to protest the well-equipped Israeli army as part of a wider resistance against their brutal subjugation. Rabin made goodÃâà...
Haaretz
November 5, 2017
One of the foolish remarks Yasser Arafat used to make – and which you can still hear some of his people saying to this day – was that if Yigal Amir hadnt assassinated Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995, the Oslo process would have continued and reached a good conclusion: a Palestinian stateÃâà...
