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Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chief Yasser Arafat shook hands on the White House's South Lawn just three weeks ago, but Kelman has quietly been bringing together leaders from both Israeli and Arab camps since 1971, employing the ideas of political psychology to help promote understanding between the groups...
...will administer self-rule until free elections are held for a Palestinian council within nine months. According to a P.L.O. official, the negotiators in Oslo discussed allowing the entire executive committee of the P.L.O. to relocate to the territories. Although Israeli officials won't say so explicitly, P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat will surely be among them. "It is not that he can come tomorrow," says Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Yossi Beilin. "That still should be discussed...
...peace. No large armies lying smashed and smoking in the far deserts. No victors, no vanquished. This was a search for peace in quieted minds and hearts, though no less perilous for that. Yet it was a profound statement of hope, this singular coming together of Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat on the broad green South Lawn of the White House, with chrysanthemums in bloom and robins calling...
Brushing aside the protests of hard-liners on both sides, Israel recognized the P.L.O. as the representative of the Palestinian people and the P.L.O. recognized Israel's right to exist unmolested. Yasser Arafat also suggested that Palestinian residents of the occupied territories end their nearly six- year-long anti-Israeli rebellion. Other long-standing Middle East stalemates began to budge as well: Jordan was poised to conclude an "agenda for peace" with Israel as soon as a P.L.O. deal for self-rule was signed. Following Israel's lead, the U.S. will also begin direct talks with the P.L.O...
...face agreements invariably fades as the vital enabling details are fashioned. Thus while Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin reached beyond Washington's mediation in the 1970s, cementing the eventual Egyptian-Israeli treaty required Jimmy Carter's skill at Camp David. The play today is similar. As only they could, Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin have set the course, but America's continuing involvement is inevitable...