
Deja Vu: 'Peace in Our Time'
Algemeiner
It was in August 1993, just 20 years ago, when Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, strongly pressured by then Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, embarked on what he described as a “gamble for peace” and consummated the Oslo Accords with the PLO, an act which ...

Hawking boycotts for all the wrong reasons
Cleveland Jewish News
Last week, Hawking sent a letter to Israeli President Shimon Peres saying he would not participate in the June event, “based on advice from Palestinian academics” that he should respect the boycott. ... Peres, in fact, won a Nobel Prize (a prize which ...

China Tip-Toes into Mideast Peace
Middle East Online
Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin won the prize for their work on the subject even though what they did failed to bring lasting peace, and Jimmy Carter also got a Nobel in large part for his work on the same subject. Barack Obama won the ...

Palestinian negotiation tactics
Times of Oman
Twice as many settlers are now living in illegal Jewish-only settlements in Palestinian areas compared with before the famous handshake at the White House Lawn between Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat. Both leaders have since died unnatural deaths but ...