From the conquest of the occupied territories by Israel during the Six Day War, small numbers of Israeli settlements began to appear. ... To Israeli Labour peacemakers like Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres, the occupied territories provide the chance for a deal with the nations from whom they were conquered, much in the same way as the 1978-79 Camp David Peace Accords were signed between Israel's Likud Prime Minister Menachem Begin and the Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat. ... Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, before his assassination in 1996 thought along similar lines as these for a ...

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Jewish and Christian tour groups are still coming to Israel, but their numbers are down by over half because of the travel advisory. ... I was honored on my trip to visit with Mayor Ehud Olmert of Jerusalem; Former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu; Tourism and Transportation Minister in the Barak Government and Former Army Chief of Staff Amnon Lipkin-Shahak; Danny Seaman, Director of the Government Press Office; David Landau, Editor of Haaretz - Israel's largest newspaper - and Knesset Members Rueven "Ruby" Rivlin, Dan Meridor, and Benny Elon. ...

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