- Title: WEST BANK: ISRAELI DEFENCE MINISTER VISITS BETHLEHEM.
- Date: 13th November 1984
- Summary: 1. GV Bethlehem centre 0.04 2. GVs Car arriving, Rabin steps out of car with aides and is greeted by Mayor of Bethlehem, enters centre (4 shots) 0.35 3. GV & SVs Rabin seated with Mayor and officials (3 shots) 0.56 4. CUs Rabin speaking to newspeople with Mayor listening (SOT) (7 shots) 2.22 SPEECH TRANSCRIPT: (SEQUENCE FOUR): RABIN: "As you know, we have started to
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- Location: BETHLEHEM, WEST BANK
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- Country: Palestinian Territories
- Topics: General
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- Story Text: BETHLEHEM, WEST BANK
Israeli Defence Minister Yitzhak Rabin visited Bethlehem, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank territories, on November 12. Mr Rabin, in an address to Arab officials including the mayor, Elias Freij, said he hoped that Lebanon and Israel would soon reach a negotiated settlement on Israeli troop withdrawals from South Lebanon. He was referring to the Naqoura talks, which opened on November 8, but stalled immediately as Israeli forces arrested four political officials of the mainstream Shi'ite Moslem movement Amal. Israeli refusal to release the four, has led to widespread unrest and strikes in Israeli-occupied South Lebanon. In an apparent bid to break the deadlock, U.S. Assistant-Secretary of State Richard Murphy flew to beirut and met President Amin Gemayel and Prime Minister Rashid Karami. The Lebanese government said the talks would be suspended until the four men were freed. Mr Murphy also conferred with Mr Rabin in Tel Aviv on November 12. After the meeting, attended by the U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Samuel Lewis, and Israeli military Chief of Staff, Moshe Levy, Mr Murphy said he hoped the talks would resume. A government source said Mr Murphy had proposed that Israel free three of the detained men immediately in return for Lebanon resuming talks on November 14. The fourth man would be freed after the November 14 session. Amal has rejected an Israeli demand to call of guerrilla attacks on Israeli troops during the U.N.-sponsored Naqoura talks. Israel said it would not free the four men while attacks continued.
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