Summary
Israeli politician (1948–), Vice Foreign Minister in the second Rabin government, whom Zionist Israel and the Question of Palestine credits, with Shimon Peres, with convincing the hesitant Yitzhak Rabin to take up direct negotiations with the Palestine Liberation Organization (Zionist Israel and the Question of Palestine, PDF p.179, 183 / printed p.170, 174).
Details
- Beilin was not a Nobel laureate: Rabin and Peres accepted the PLO under Yasser Arafat as a dialogue partner, and “For this, all three political leaders were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994” — the three are Arafat, Rabin and Peres (PDF p.183).
- After Rabin’s assassination in November 1995, Peres did not give the Foreign Ministry to Beilin, the man so strongly committed to work on Israeli-Palestinian relations, but to former Chief of General Staff Ehud Barak, who had taken a critical stance towards the Oslo Peace Process as army commander (PDF p.189).
- Beilin secretly negotiated in Stockholm with the Palestinian representative Mahmoud Abbas an agreement in principle for a permanent solution, the Beilin/Abu-Masen Paper; Peres could not take it up before the 1996 election, let alone make it the basis of his peace policy, and rejected endorsing it for the three reasons Avi Shlaim gives (PDF p.193-194).
Related pages
Beilin/Abu-Masen Paper, Shimon Peres, Mahmoud Abbas, Oslo Accords, Zionist Israel and the Question of Palestine