Mr Beilin, deputy foreign minister at the time, was at the heart of things.
Mr Beilin, less outspoken, has preferred to meet other figures in the Palestinian leadership.
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Beilin understood that what Barak feared most was the fall of his government and new elections.
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So Barak dutifully elevated uber-leftist and then-justice minister Yossi Beilin to the head of his negotiations team.
But neither can they entirely expunge the Beilin-Abu Mazen understanding though it was never officially published from the historical record.
Yossi Beilin, the leading Labour dove, has spoken passionately in support of the decision to bomb the Syrians.
This is the result of Mr Beilin's second secret track, the Stockholm one.
Beilin convinced Barak to agree to the transfer of the Temple Mount and the Jordan Valley to the PLO.
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The bill proposing a return to the old system is sponsored both by Labour's Yossi Beilin and Likud's Uzi Landau.
In so doing, it brought in Ehud Barak and Yossi Beilin, the withdrawal from Lebanon and the Camp David summit.
On October 31st 1995, Mr Beilin and Abu Mazen, the Palestinians' chief negotiator, met in Tel Aviv to approve the plan.
Others drifted to Meretz over the years, including that party's three most recent leaders: Shulamit Aloni, Yossi Sarid and Yossi Beilin.
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Mr Beilin gave warning, though, that the Palestinians would reject it and that this impasse could quickly result in the collapse of the Palestinian Authority.
Labour's Yossi Beilin, a long-time campaigner for getting out of Lebanon, was joined this week by the Likud's Michael Eitan and the Centre Party's Ronni Milo.
On January 17th the Labour Party's central committee crushed a motion by Yossi Beilin, a former minister and indefatigable peace negotiator, to secede from the coalition government.
In staking out this position, Beilin is repeating he actions towards then prime minister Ehud Barak after the outbreak of the Palestinian terror war in September 2000.
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Two weeks ago Beilin met with the EU's External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner and elicited from her a clear EU rejection of Olmert's plan to determine Israel's borders.
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He empowered Beilin to make even more far-reaching concessions to Arafat at Taba, even as Arafat's security forces were lynching IDF soldiers and planning, financing and ordering the suicide bombings.
Yossi Beilin, a prominent dove and one of the original architects of the Oslo peace plan, disclosed the scheme on Wednesday November 18th and Mr Netanyahu's people did not deny it.
Because of this, Beilin was able to force Barak to adopt still more accomodationist positions after the outbreak of the Palestinian terror war than he had proposed at Camp David in July 2000.
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Far from disappearing as Barak and his deputy Yossi Beilin had promised it would, Hizbullah took over south Lebanon and used the area as a springboard for its eventual takeover of the Lebanese government.
Meanwhile Yossi Beilin, a former Labour minister, and Yasser Abed Rabbo, a former minister in the Palestinian Authority, has signed a similar agreement, known as the Geneva accord, after two years of dogged negotiation.
Behind the scenes, however, there have been some active goings-on: if Mr Beilin's party is able to form Israel's next government, a document containing the basic ingredients of a final agreement will be at its disposal.
Beilin, who served as justice minister in Barak's government saw that Barak had lost all security credibility with the failure of his peace talks and his inability to take effective actions against the Palestinian terror offensive.
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The latest disaster in Lebanon has compounded the confusion, with the hardest of hardliners, Ariel Sharon, and an avowed dove, Yossi Beilin, both publicly discussing the possibility of the unilateral withdrawal of Israeli forces from south Lebanon.
Regardless of who is in office, the likes of Brom, Dekel and Spiegel and their leader Yossi Beilin are always working with the Americans and Europeans to force Israel to maintain allegiance to the failed land for peace paradigm.
Beilin told The Jerusalem Post that Israel must surrender all the Israeli communities to the Palestinians and sign a deal with Abbas to this effect even if Abbas is incapable or unwilling to uphold any pledge to fight terrorism.
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But Mr Netanyahu, who was abroad when Mr Beilin's bill passed by 50 votes to 45 (it will need 61 votes in later stages), is confident that his presence and persuasion will see off the measure next time it comes up.
Yossi Beilin - the dovish minister of justice within the Barak government - has warned that he will leave the party and take a number of parliamentary colleagues with him, if it decides to join a national unity government with Ariel Sharon.
On television one night, he got into a shouting match with Yossi Beilin, an architect of the Oslo Peace Accord, in the mid-nineties, telling him that the pact with Yasir Arafat had caused the deaths of sixteen hundred Israelis in terror attacks.
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