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It was Peres who glimpsed the potential opportunity in Oslo and, through various means, managed to persuade or drag Rabin along. Rabin, hesitantly, approached the opportunity, rejecting it intellectually and emotionally, but justifying it to himself by saying it might fulfill his need to disperse the First Intifada after it had become impossible to break its spirit. It might also contain the threat of Islamic movements, whose increasing growth was beginning to worry him, and whose repeated acts of resistance were troubling him, especially since they were confronting the Israeli army with a type of resistance he didn’t know, and moreover, didn’t understand. Furthermore, its moral and material costs were high, and preventing it was extremely difficult, as Rabin recounted during his last visit to Cairo. He added: “How can the IDF plan scientifically against people who are racing madly towards death?” At the very least, Rabin hoped that, in the event of an agreement with the PLO, the Palestinian Authority would assume responsibility for the daily needs of the Palestinian population in their densely populated areas of Gaza and the West Bank. Simultaneously, he expected this same authority to relieve him of the task of eliminating the “resistance.”
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