Tuesday, July 23, 2002

Rabin's Daughter Resigns from Israeli Government
Dalia Rabin-Pelosoff, daughter of the assassinated Israeli leader who began a peace process with Palestinians, resigned her cabinet post Tuesday in protest at the army's reoccupation of Palestinian towns in the West Bank.

Rabin-Pelosoff, whose father Yitzhak Rabin struck interim peace deals with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in 1993, was named deputy defense minister in the broad coalition of right-wing Prime Minister Ariel Sharon last year.

An Israeli opposed to Rabin's peacemaking with the Palestinians killed him in 1995. Five years after the Oslo accords were signed, a Palestinian uprising erupted after talks on a final peace collapsed.

A senior Israeli political source told Reuters that Rabin-Pelosoff, a Labor Party member, was ``unhappy with Sharon and said that if he wants to reoccupy the West Bank and to destroy the Palestinian Authority, he should do so without us.''
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/world/international-mideast-israel-resignation.html

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