Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. Prelude[edit]
Yitzhak Rabin. Yitzhak Rabin (Hebrew: יִצְחָק רַבִּין; IPA: [jitsˈχak ʁaˈbin] ( ); 1 March 1922 – 4 November 1995) was an Israeli politician, statesman and general.
He was the fifth Prime Minister of Israel, serving two terms in office, 1974–77 and 1992 until his assassination in 1995. Yasser Arafat. Later in his career, Arafat engaged in a series of negotiations with the government of Israel to end the decades-long conflict between it and the PLO.
These included the Madrid Conference of 1991, the 1993 Oslo Accords and the 2000 Camp David Summit. Shimon Peres. Shimon Peres ( listen ; Hebrew: שמעון פרס; born Szymon Perski; 2 August 1923) is a Polish-born Israeli statesman.
He is the ninth and current President of the State of Israel. Peres served twice as the Prime Minister of Israel and twice as Interim Prime Minister, and has been a member of 12 cabinets in a political career spanning over 66 years.[1] Peres was elected to the Knesset in November 1959 and, except for a three-month-long hiatus in early 2006, served continuously until 2007, when he became President. Peres was nominated in early 2007 by Kadima to run in that year's presidential election, and was elected by the Knesset to the presidency on 13 June 2007 and sworn into office on 15 July 2007 for a seven-year term.[3][4] He is the first former Prime Minister to be elected President of Israel. In 2008, Peres was honorarily appointed Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George.[5] Palestinian leader vows peace, urges settlement end.
Embassy of the Kingdom of Bahrain to the United States. Bill Clinton's Warning to Democrats at CGI. Famed as Sonic Youth’s bassist, Kim Gordon is also an accomplished visual artist who once did a watercolor of Blondie.
She talks about life after the band—and the secrets of her artistic process. There is a certain school of thought that says Kim Gordon—"musician, vocalist, visual artist, record producer, video director, fashion designer, and actress," according to her ever-expanding Wikipedia entry—is the coolest person on the planet. Gordon, for her part, cannot possibly understand why anyone would think that, which has the effect, of course, of making her even cooler.
On a recent Monday afternoon, the former Sonic Youth bassist was high in the hills above L.A.'s Laurel Canyon, waiting to lead a group of local art students through her latest exhibition,Coming Soon, a series of 24 "wreath" paintings that she had hung, placed, or casually propped up throughout the Fitzpatrick-Leland House (1936) by legendary modernist architect R.M. Show Pages - Fareed Zakaria GPS. Transcripts. Return to Transcripts main page Interview With Shimon Peres; Interview With Abdullah Gul Aired September 26, 2010 - 10:00 ET FAREED ZAKARIA, HOST: Now for our "What in the World" segment.
What got my attention this week was a claim by Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. This one isn't about nuclear weapons or Israel or the holocaust, it's about execution. President Ahmadinejad claims that there is a death penalty double standard. And on the other hand, nobody protests again the execution this week of a woman in America. The United States executed 52 people in 2009.
Netanyahu calls for restraint as Israeli settlers celebrate end of building freeze. By Daily Mail Reporter Updated: 09:40 GMT, 27 September 2010 Fears restarting of construction work threatens peace deal Israeli Prime Minister Bejamin Neanyahu called on Israeli settlers to show restraint today as a freeze on building in Jewish West Bank areas expired.
He also called on Palestinians to continue working towards a peace deal despite serious opposition to any construction work going ahead. A moratorium on building in Israeli settlements elapsed at midnight this morning, threatening the recently resumed peace talks. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has kept hopes alive by saying that his team would not withdraw from the negotiating table. Middle East peace talks in jeopardy; Clinton and Abbas meet. NEW YORK -- Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton spent nearly a half-hour Friday meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas as the Obama administration tried to prevent Israeli-Palestinian peace talks from collapsing.
The Palestinians have threatened to walk out of the talks if Israel does not extend a slowdown in West Bank settlement activity that expires on Sunday. After Clinton's 25-minute meeting with Abbas, State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley told reporters that the U.S. efforts to keep the talks alive were continuing. 2000 Camp David Summit. The summit[edit] On 11 July, the Camp David 2000 Summit convened, although the Palestinians considered the summit premature. [1][2] They even saw it as a trap.[3] The summit ended on 25 July, without an agreement being reached.
At its conclusion, a Trilateral Statement was issued defining the agreed principles to guide future negotiations.[4] The negotiations[edit] The negotiations were based on an all or nothing approach, such that "nothing was considered agreed and binding until everything was agreed. "