31.   Some commentators have noted it is easy for Canada to forswear land mines at a time when none of its troops are in war zones.

32.   A radio commentator noted it was the first time that Rabin, who is also defence minister, warned that terrorism posed a strategic threat to the Jewish state.

33.   A radio commentator noted it was the first time that Rabin described terrorism as a strategic threat to the Jewish state.

34.   To beat him, one would have to be like him, and that goes particularly for the prodigious physical weight and stature which commentators always note.