Posted on 02/18/2004 1:52:05 PM PST by yonif
President Moshe Katzav, visiting in France, said yesterday that the late Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin never would have signed the Oslo accords had he known that Yasser Arafat would continue terrorism. The French news agency AFP reports that Katzav, speaking at a reception in his honor at the Council of Jewish Institutions in France, said, "Since the signing of the Oslo accords, we have not had one day of peace - while we have made far-reaching compromises."
"Rabin took this historic step," Katzav said, but "if he had known that Arafat would continue with terrorism, he would never have signed. [While] Israel has accepted the Road Map plan, the response from the Palestinians is to increase terrorism." Rabin and Arafat received the Nobel Peace prize for having signed the 1993 Oslo accords.
President Katzav condemned "rich" Arab countries for not being "able to build a town or a village for Arab refugees. Where is their sensitivity?" he said. Katzav met yesterday with French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin.
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