By not redeploying from West Bank towns, he showed Mr Arafat was unable to deliver much to his followers. Given that President Weizman was an early exponent of talks with the Palestinians, this looked like a blow below the belt. But it probably expresses majority opinion among Israelis.The problem for Mr Rabin is that he has offended everybody. Suicide bombs in Tel Aviv last October and Beit Lid on Sunday have shown they are not. He promised to separate Jews and Arabs but allowed Israeli settlements to expand, so two hostile communities on the West Bank and in Gaza are sitting on top of one another.On Sunday, the Israeli President, Ezer Weizman, said it was time to suspend talks unless the PLO chairman, Yasser Arafat, made a bigger effort to control Hamas and Islamic Jihad. There are no limitations; for the security services – a free hand. We have taken off the gloves,” said Efraim Sneh, Health Minister and a former West Bank commander, considered close to Mr Rabin.Israelis and Palestinians have been disappointed since the peace agreement was signed in September1993 Mr Rabin led Israelis to believe they would be more secure.

“We will continue on the path of peace since there is no alternative,” Mr Rabin said in an address to the nation on Israeli television, a day after Palestinian suicide bombers blew up 18 soldiers and a civilian near the coastal resort of Netanya “This path must lead us to total separation,” he said. Mr Rabin has resisted calls to suspend peace talks with the Palestinians and has given the security forces a freer hand to track down extremists.
Heavily manned army roadblocks kept about 50,000 Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza Strip from jobs in Israel yesterday and more than 500 Palestinians inside Israel illegally were arrested.”We have chosen to fight and by all means. The Israeli Prime Minister, Yitzhak Rabin, pledged last night to continue the peace process with the goal of completely separating Israelis and Palestinians. Akins accepted a plea bargain similar to one rejected by Crumitie.Akins faces a minimum three-year prison term for use of a weapon during a felony and a maximum of 40 years.. If he died now it would be all over for him; he doesn’t deserve that.Akins was one of four youths charged with Colley’s murder and becomes the third teenager to plead to lesser charges.The first trial of John “Billy Joe” Crumitie, 18, ended in a hung jury in November.

Speaking at his home in Bradford he said: “I didn’t really want the electric chair for him anyway – I would rather he just rot in jail for ever. Miss Jagger was present for the plea agreement.Colley’s brother, Stephen, said yesterday he would not be satisfied until Akins was behind bars for life. Akins was charged with being the triggerman in the botched robbery, in which Colley died and Miss Jagger was wounded.
The killing was one of a series of attacks on tourists in 1992 and 1993 that severely tarnished Florida’s image.The plea bargain was reached less than an hour before jury selection was set to begin. Aundra Akins, 16, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder in the September 1993 attack on Colley and his companion, Margaret Jagger, at amotorway rest-stop in north Florida. After his plea bargain, Akins may be used as a witness in the trial of an alleged accomplice.