I wish to comment on the feature article written by Queen Noor of Jordan (January 5).

Israelis are marking the 13th anniversary of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin’s death at the hands of an assassin opposed to his peace policies.

THE head of Israel’s internal security service said yesterday he is “very concerned” that Jewish extremists could assassinate an Israeli leader in an attempt to foil peace moves with the Palestinians.

More than 100,000 Israelis gathered in the square where their prime minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated 12 years ago to remember him – and protest against a decision to allow the assassin to be present at his son’s circumcision today.

Syrian President Bashar Assad expressed scepticism today towards US President George Bush’s call for an international Middle East peace conference, dismissing the offer as “just words”.

THE internal fighting between Palestinian factions in Gaza is the latest stumbling block to attempts to secure a peace that has been elusive since the formation of the state of Israel.

Israeli authorities have agreed to allow Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin’s assassin to receive conjugal visits in prison so he and his wife can try to start a family, Israeli media reported today.

Israel’s Supreme Court has issued a temporary injunction barring the jailed assassin of Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin from donating sperm to impregnate his wife, pending a final court ruling.

Tens of thousands of Israelis packed the Tel Aviv square where Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated 10 years ago to mourn the former prime minister and to express hopes that his memory would spur new efforts to bring peace between Israel and the Palestinians.

A mysterious blast levelled a building in Gaza city, killing four people and wounding at least 30, residents and hospital officials said.

EGYPTIAN president Hosni Mubarak plans to visit Israel in November, an Israeli official said yesterday, in what would be just his second visit to the Jewish state.

A mysterious blast after nightfall tonight levelled a building in Gaza City, killing four people and wounding at least 30, residents and hospital officials said.

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak plans to visit Israel in November, an Israeli official said today, in what would be just his second visit to the Jewish state.

Yitzhak Rabin’s assassin has threatened to begin a hunger strike if he is not granted conjugal visits with the woman he says he married by proxy, a spokesman for the Israeli Prisons Authority said today.

Militant settlers warned of violence and civil war after Israel’s parliament cleared away a major obstacle in front of a planned pullout from all 21 Gaza settlements and four in the West Bank this summer, handily defeating a call for a referendum.

FORMER US President Bill Clinton offered condolences to Palestinians after the death of Yasser Arafat but said their leader had missed the opportunity to create lasting Middle East peace in 2000.

Bill Clinton held Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat responsible for the collapse of Middle East peace efforts, and told him so, the former president said in an interview published ahead of his new book’s release.

ISRAEL’S prison director said yesterday he would forbid the killer of former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin to marry in prison, after reports of his wedding plans caused national uproar.

The daughter of assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was admitted to hospital last night after being told that the jailed killer is to be married.

YOUR editorial comment on the tit-for-tat violence following the publication of the Middle East road map for peace was disingenuous (Irish Examiner, June 13).