CBS Evening News - 1993-09-10
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[0:02] Israel and the PLO put it in writing.
[0:04] After decades of hatred, is this the
[0:08] first step toward peace?
[0:12] This is the CBS Evening News.
[0:19] Good evening. Connie Chung is on
[0:20] assignment. Momentum is building tonight
[0:23] for peace in the Middle East. As Israel
[0:25] and the PLO formally agreed to end their
[0:28] arms struggle today, King Hussein of
[0:30] Jordan said he too expects to sign an
[0:32] agreement within days on a framework for
[0:35] peace with Israel. The United States
[0:37] resumed talks with the PLO and President
[0:39] Clinton said peace will come with what
[0:41] he called quote guarantees. But as Bob
[0:44] Simon reports now from Israel, all the
[0:47] hopeful signs came amid continued
[0:50] doubts, threats, and more violence.
[0:54] While history was happening inside the
[0:56] prime minister's office, protesters
[0:58] outside were trying to block its path.
[1:01] Right-wing Israelis, settlers mainly,
[1:03] afraid that Rabin was signing away the
[1:05] deeds to their land. On part of that
[1:08] land in Gaza, Muslim fundamentalists
[1:10] were on the march, convinced the PLO was
[1:12] selling them out. But foreign minister
[1:14] Shiman Perez defended the pact as a
[1:17] triumph of the future over the past.
[1:19] What we were trying seriously is to get
[1:22] rid of a poisonous past and to use a
[1:26] biblical wish to return to a land of
[1:29] milk and honey.
[1:30] >> It was a ceremony of recognition, but in
[1:33] a far deeper sense and is usually
[1:35] conveyed by that diplomatic phrase. For
[1:37] 45 years, the Israelis and the
[1:39] Palestinians have refused to recognize
[1:41] each other's existence as a nation, as a
[1:44] people. They've been waging war in an
[1:46] attempt to oblitera