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Thursday, October 12, 2000
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Thursday, Oct. 12, 2000 / Tishrei 13, 5761
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TODAY'S HEADLINES:
1. TWO ISRAELI SOLDIERS LYNCHED IN RAMALLAH; IDF
RETALIATES
2. THE RETALIATION
3. REACTIONS
4. PALESTINIAN SHOOTING ATTACKS INCREASED LAST NIGHT
5. REACTIONS BY YESHA LEADERS
1. TWO ISRAELI SOLDIERS LYNCHED IN RAMALLAH; IDF RETALIATES
The IDF reacted to today's brutal lynching of two Israeli
soldiers in
Ramallah with five bombing raids on carefully-selected buildings
in
Ramallah and Gaza.
Today's events began when two soldiers, on their way back to
their army
base in or near Beit El after a short furlough from their
reserves duty,
were brutally lynched by a wild mob of Arabs. Palestinian
sources falsely
reported that they were undercover agents. The Israelis
entered the city
by mistake, and were detained by the Palestinian police.
After they were
brought to the police station in central Ramallah, a crowd of
between 1,000
and 2,000 Arabs broke into the building, overcame the police, and
murderously beat and killed the Israelis. Some of the
Palestinian police
took part in the lynch. The body of one of the Israelis was
dragged around
the city chained to a car. Television pictures show Arabs
in the window of
the station, alternately beating and stabbing someone inside and
gleefully
making a V sign out the window; the video clip can be seen on
Arutz-7's
homepage, <www.israelnationalnews.com>.
The soldiers were viciously beaten all over their bodies.
Military
officials who handled the bodies told Arutz-7 that they were
"deliberately
tortured and abused... The bodies were mutilated and torn
to
pieces. There was great difficulty in recognizing
them..." The bodies will
not be autopsied unless specific permission is received from the
families
of the dead soldiers; as of now, such permission has not been
received.
At approximately 5 PM this afternoon, Palestinian Arabs shot at
an Israeli
news-crew from Channel Two television; two cameramen were
wounded. Arabs
shot at Israeli targets near Adam and in Hevron late this
afternoon; no one
was hurt.
2. THE RETALIATION
In Ramallah, the targets of the first IDF bombing attack, at
approximately
3:00 PM, were Palestinian television buildings, from where heavy
incitement
against Israel is broadcast daily; Arafat's headquarters; and the
police
station where the lynch occurred. Two of four Palestinian
television
stations ceased broadcasting afterwards, and Palestinian Radio is
broadcasting weakly, if at all. A second attack two hours
later targeted
other buildings in Ramallah. Military installations in
northern Gaza were
bombed as well, including five Palestinian Authority ships and a
floor of
the Palestinian police that housed the Tanzim force.
IDF officials made clear today that today's retaliatory bombings
were "a
symbolic signal to the PA that we will no longer show restraint
in the face
of continued attacks... This shows that the IDF will from
now on initiate
attacks, and not only react." The officials
emphasized, however, that the
army is not interested in an escalation. The IDF says that
all PA
officials were warned three hours in advance that their buildings
were in
danger. The army is prepared for a possible escalation on
the part of the
Palestinians. IDF tanks are now surrounding all PA
towns. Arafat's
headquarters and home in Gaza were not bombed, contrary to some
reports.
Gaza security chief Muhammad Dahlan told Gazan Arab residents
that IDF
troops and tanks had filled Gaza streets. The IDF spokesman
dismissed
these reports, and said that the PA is now waging a propaganda
war. PA
officials said that the IDF bombings today are a
"declaration of war on the
PA."
The residents of Psagot, bordering immediately adjacent to the
Ramallah
suburb of Al Bireh, were instructed to enter their bomb
shelters. The
cellular phone system in the PA areas is on the verge of
collapse, and
Palestinians have been called upon by their leaders not to use
their
cellular phones.
3. REACTIONS
Communications and Housing Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer said
after the
lynching: "There is no peace process, period. It is dead, it
is behind us.
Arafat wants war, that's all."
Interior Minister Chaim Ramon, a leader of the peace camp, said,
"In the
end, there will be peace, because there has to be. But
meanwhile, Arafat
has made a very big mistake, which will cost his people a
terrible
price. On the very verge of peace, he has chosen to go the
way of
war... In his schizophrenic personality, his desire to
attain diplomatic
gains was apparently overcome by his violent, terrorist
nature..."
MK Yossi Sarid (Meretz), after the bombings: "Barak reached
the limit of
his restraint, I think this retaliatory action was
unavoidable. After the
lynch of today, and all the events of the past days, I estimate
that there
was no other choice, as the situation was deteriorating and if
there was no
reaction on our part, it would have continued to
deteriorate."
The bombings were preceded by militant remarks by two government
ministers
- Binyamin Ben-Eliezer and Dalia Itzik. The latter called
for military
offensives that will hurt the other side. Rabbi Yitzchak
Levy, National
Religious Party, said after the lynch, "The Palestinian
Authority has
officially turned into a body that cooperates with bloodthirsty
Arab
mobs. This is a war for all intents and purposes, and we
must relate to
the PA representatives in this way."
MK Rehavam (Gandi) Ze'evi (National Union-Yisrael Beiteinu) said
this
morning after the lynch: "Tanzim head Marwan Bargouti
must be considered a
wanted criminal and must be arrested. Electricity should be
closed off to
Ramallah, and no traffic should be allowed in or out; Arafat's
air traffic
must be stopped, Barak must resign, and Beilin must be fired and
leave
public life."
4. PALESTINIAN SHOOTING ATTACKS INCREASED LAST NIGHT
Close to 30 Palestinian shooting incidents took place last night
and today.
Palestinian police opened fire this morning on IDF soldiers in
the Gush
Katif junction; no one was hurt. Earlier, a firebomb was thrown
at a Jewish
school in Jaffa; a classroom was burnt. Not far from there, a
Jewish boy
was stabbed yesterday. Last night, there was heavy firing in
Psagot - where
bullets penetrated one house - and in Hevron, where three
soldiers were
wounded. The Jews of Hevron, for the umpteenth time, demanded
that the army
take over the hills of Abu Sneinah overlooking the Jewish homes
and where
much of the shooting originates - as was promised for such
circumstances at
the time of the signing of the Hevron withdrawal agreement by the
Netanyahu
government in early '97.
Other shootings took place outside N'vei Tzuf, wounding one Jew,
and three
soldiers were lightly wounded in shooting incidents in Gush Katif
and
Halhoul; Palestinians fired shots outside Rechelim, Luban
a-Sharkiyeh
(north of Ramallah), Tulkarm, Rafiah, and elsewhere.
5. REACTIONS BY YESHA LEADERS
Rabbi Eliezer Melamed, the rabbi of the Shomron town of Brachah,
said:
"There is no choice. The solution proposed by [some on
the left] to give
away the settlements in Yesha is not an option. If we
withdraw, it must be
all the way to the sea. What, do they think that if we
retreat to a narrow
strip along the coast, they won't want to attack us? Our
only option is to
defeat them." He said that he met with army leaders
this week, and told
them that many of his townspeople have begun to despair of the
army's
ability to protect them. "The soldiers plead with us
to do speak to the
politicians with whom we have connections, because they see Arabs
coming to
bombard Jewish cars with rocks, and the government does not allow
them to
shoot!" When asked if he is then in favor of an
all-out offensive, he
said, "Yes, 100%! It should begin with killing... the
top commanders who
drive the mobs. Yes, I am wary of the world's reaction, but
it will be
against us in any event, so it might as well come when we are
strong."
I am in favor of an all-out attack. It should begin with
killing Arafat,
and then the top Palestinian commanders that drive the
mobs. Yes, I am
wary of the world's reaction, but it will be against us in any
event, so it
might as well come when we are strong."
Elon Moreh resident Benny Katzover spoke to Voice of Israel radio
after the
murder of the two soldiers today and the resulting Israeli
bombing of PA
buildings in Ramallah: "I was part of the funeral for
Hillel Lieberman,
who was murdered this past weekend. He was murdered after
the IDF pulled
out of Joseph's Tomb; this move - the abandonment of Jewish
holy sites -
was translated by the Palestinians as a weakness, and led to the
lynch of
Lieberman. When Israel decided not to act harshly against
Shechem
residents, who carried out that lynch, we were offered a second
lynch,
today in Ramallah. Why does the Israeli military
respond only after it
costs us in Jewish lives?"
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Brief: Friday, October 13, 2000
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Friday, Oct. 13, 2000 / Tishrei 14, 5761
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TODAY'S HEADLINES:
1. ANCIENT JERICHO SYNAGOGUE SET ABLAZE BY
PALESTINIANS
2. REACTIONS TO THE ANCIENT-SYNAGOGUE BURNING
3. BARAK ATTEMPTING TO EXPAND GOVERNMENT
1. ANCIENT JERICHO SYNAGOGUE SET ABLAZE BY PALESTINIANS
A mob of Palestinian Arabs from Jericho set the ancient
"Shalom Al
Yisrael" synagogue on fire last night, and the wood
structure was
burnt to the ground. Palestinians prevented Israeli fire trucks
from
putting out the fire. About two hours later, the Israel Air
Force
bombed a Palestinian Authority police academy building in
Jericho, in
retaliation. Early this morning, the Air Force bombed
targets in
Shechem as well. A French news agency reports that Israel
Air Force
planes circled targets in Lebanon this morning.
Minister of Diaspora Affairs Rabbi Michael Melchior (Meimad) told
Israel Radio today that the mistake of Oslo was that Israel did
not do
enough to stop the Palestinian Authority's continuing and intense
incitement to hatred of Israel, to the extent that was reflected
in
the brutal lynching of the two Israeli soldiers by the crazed
Palestinian mob.
2. REACTIONS TO THE ANCIENT-SYNAGOGUE BURNING
"A Palestinian Authority that burns people by day, and
synagogues at
night, has no right to exist." So said former MK
Chanan Porat, who
was very active on behalf of maintaining a Jewish presence at the
site
over the past few years, to Arutz-7 last night. "We
must know that
our mission today is to put an end to this body, and to return to
all
of Eretz Yisrael and its holy sites. I have no doubt that we will
have
to return to Jericho and Shechem, because if not, these places
will
continue to serve as bases from which the murderers will shoot at
us..." MK Benny Elon called on the government to retaliate
for the
desecration of yet another holy Jewish site by bombing the nearby
Palestinian Authority casino. "We must hit Arafat in his
pocket," Elon
said, "which will make more of a dent in him than all the
Palestinian
children that he sends to be killed."
Chief Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau recalled that after the NRP's Chanan
Porat and Chaim Falk turned to him almost seven years ago on the
matter of the Jewish site in Jericho, "I turned to
then-Prime Minister
Rabin, and he promised that a yeshiva would be allowed to operate
there. He later came back to me with a letter showing a special
clause
in the Oslo I agreement, stipulating that a 'Jewish spiritual
center'
would operate there, and that Israelis would be allowed to travel
back
and forth."
Yisrael Medad, member of the Executive Board of the Shalom Al
Yisrael
Synagogue - the name comes from the words that appear on the
ancient
mosaic floor there - released the following statement: "The
act of
senseless vandalism that is the destruction of the Shalom Al
Yisrael
Synagogue in Jericho, stoked by evil minds and fed by a cruel
hatred,
will be answered. The 1,250-year old mosaic floor will be
restored to
the best of our ability, and Jewish prayers and sounds of Torah
learning will again be heard in the city that was the first of
the
conquests of Joshua in the Land of Israel."
3. BARAK ATTEMPTING TO EXPAND GOVERNMENT
A national-emergency government is apparently in formation,
although
many questions remain unanswered. Prime Minister Barak will
meet with
heads of most of the Knesset factions today. The Meretz
party
announced that it would not yet respond to Barak's invitation to
join
such a government, as it is not yet clear what its diplomatic
policies
will be. The planned government will not involve the
distribution of
portfolios - too complex a task for the short time available -
but is
scheduled to include almost all the parties of the Knesset.
It was
agreed that the government would be formed for the period of a
month -
during which time issues such as the secular revolution would be
frozen - and would then be reconsidered in light of the
circumstances.
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Sunday, October 15, 2000
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Sunday, Oct. 15, 2000 / Tishrei 16, 5761
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TODAY'S HEADLINES:
1. FOURTH ISRAELI CAPTURED BY HIZBULLAH
2. VIOLENCE CONTINUES
3. NO CONDITIONS FOR SUMMIT
4. PALESTINIAN INCITEMENT TO MURDER JEWS
1. FOURTH ISRAELI CAPTURED BY HIZBULLAH
Sheikh Nasrallah, head of the Hizbullah terrorist organization,
announced this morning that it had captured a high-ranking
Israeli
officer. Only several hours later did the terrorists
release the name
of their prisoner: Chanan Tennenbaum, whom they termed
"head of the
Mossad." Shortly afterwards, Israel confirmed that
such a man exists,
that he was a reserves soldier abroad on private personal
business,
and that it sees his kidnapping as a "very grave"
incident. Hizbullah
is currently holding three Israeli soldiers it captured eight
days ago
along the Lebanese-Israeli border.
2. VIOLENCE CONTINUES
Palestinian shooting incidents and disturbances continued today,
at
Rachel's Tomb, Hevron, the Ayosh junction north of Ramallah, and
elsewhere. A car overturned on the Tunnels Highway between
Israel and
Gush Etzion when Arabs threw rocks at it; four Jewish passengers
were
lightly injured.
Government spokesman Nachman Shai said yesterday that there had
been
30 Palestinian shooting incidents against Israeli targets in the
preceding 24 hours. These included heavy gunfire at the
Jewish
neighborhood in Hevron, from the Abu Sneinah hills. An Army
Radio
reporter noted that the army's fortifications in the area are not
effective. Hevron spokesmen remind their listeners again
that the
government promised, at the time of the army's withdrawal from
most of
Hevron, that should the high ground, such as Abu Sneinah, be used
to
attack Jewish targets, the army would retake the areas. One
soldier
was lightly wounded by Arab-hurled rocks.
Several incidents took place in Jerusalem: a firebomb was
hurled last
night at the tomb of Shimon HaTzaddik, and two others were thrown
at a
Hadassah-Mt. Scopus Hospital building; no one was hurt. A
bus going
to the Western Wall was bombarded by stones. On the road
from
northern Jerusalem to Binyamin in Samaria, Arabs shot at Israeli
soldiers near the Arab village of Hizme, near Pisgat Ze'ev.
Around
Jerusalem, boulders were hurled down at cars on the Ma'aleh
Adumim
highway, and Israeli cars were stoned near Beitar. In the
Galilee,
Arabs stoned two Egged buses last night on the road from Acre to
Carmiel; one woman was lightly hurt.
North of Jerusalem, between Ramallah and Beit El, an Arab driver
heading for Israel's military court tried to break through the
Israeli
checkpoint; soldiers fired, hit a window of the car, and the car
sped
off. In Gush Katif (southern Gaza), there was shooting
today at
Israeli soldiers, and rocks and firebombs were hurled at Israeli
bases
there.
On the other hand, at last night's soccer game at Jerusalem's
Teddy
Stadium, two people shouted, "Kahane was right!" - and
were arrested
for 'incitement.'
3. NO CONDITIONS FOR SUMMIT
Prime Minister Barak has agreed to take part in a summit meeting
tomorrow in Sharm a-Sheikh, with the participation of Yasser
Arafat,
U.S. President Clinton, King Abdullah of Jordan, and a European
Union
representative; the meeting will be hosted by Egyptian President
Hosni
Mubarak. Barak told his Cabinet today that he believes
that, in the
end, the peace process will continue, but that Arafat is
currently not
ready.
Tanzim head Marwan Bargouti said today that the PA's agreement to
take
part in tomorrow's summit does not mean the end of the intifada
against Israel. "The battle for Al-Aksa [a mosque on
the Temple
Mount] will continue until the establishment of a Palestinian
state,"
he declared.
The official Israeli position regarding the summit meeting was
expressed in a press briefing last night by Nachman Shai,
recently
appointed as Coordinator of Information Policy for the government
during the ongoing crisis with the Palestinians. Shai said
that there
are "no preconditions for the summit" from either the
Israeli or the
Palestinian side. He emphasized Israel's "demands -
not preconditions
- that we expect the Palestinians to respond to, to carry out:
... The
summit should put an end to the recent violence which was
initiated by
the Palestinians [and] should produce an agreement on the
operational
steps that Chairman Arafat will take in order to avoid further
violence... We insist that those [Hamas and Islamic Jihad]
terrorists
[released by the PA] will be immediately be arrested and put back
in
jail... [The] ongoing incitement in the Palestinian media,
especially
television and radio, against Israel... has to be stopped
immediately
by the Palestinians." Another demand was the disarming
of the Tanzim
organization, and a Cabinet statement today added also the
"preservation of holy places, such as Joseph's Tomb and the
Shalom al
Yisrael synagogue."
Shai also said that there will be no diplomatic negotiations at
the
summit; "[these] will take place in the future, when there
is no
violence." He also made sure to emphasize that Israel
had not agreed
to an international inquiry into the violence that began over two
weeks ago, but only to "fact-finding."
Opposition leader Ariel Sharon of the Likud says that if Ehud
Barak
makes the slightest move to advance the Oslo process during
tomorrow's
meeting, the opposition will try to topple his
government. Coalition
whip MK Ophir Pines-Paz reiterated that the government does not
need
Sharon's warnings, since its policy is that there will be no
diplomatic negotiations until the violence has been controlled.
Approximately half of the Likud Knesset faction is against
establishing a national-emergency government at present.
They say
that if a cease-fire is achieved tomorrow, there will no longer
be an
emergency situation, and the moves to topple the government could
proceed as before. The Likud MKs will convene tonight to
decide the
matter.
4. PALESTINIAN INCITEMENT TO MURDER JEWS
Palestinian Television continued over the weekend to re-broadcast
excerpts from a Friday sermon in the Zayed bin Sultan Aal Nahyan
mosque in Gaza. Translation supplied by The Middle East
Media
Research Institute (MEMRI):
"The Jews are Jews, whether Labor or Likud... They do
not have
any moderates or any advocates of peace. They are all
liars... O
brother believers, the criminals, the terrorists are the Jews,
who
have butchered our children, orphaned them, widowed our women and
desecrated our holy places and sacred sites. They are the
terrorists.
They are the ones who must be butchered and killed, as
Allah the
Almighty said: 'Fight them: Allah will torture them at your
hands,
and will humiliate them and will help you to overcome them, and
will
relieve the minds of the believers... The cost and the
dowry of this
bride, the dowry of this paradise, is that we fight in the path
of
Allah, and kill and be killed. Allah has purchased from the
believers
their persons and their property in return for the promise that
they
shall have paradise, for they fight in the cause of Allah, and
they
slay the enemy and are slain. This is a promise that He
[Allah] has
made incumbent upon Himself, as set out in the Torah, the Gospel,
and
the Koran. The Jews are the allies of the Christians, and
the
Christians are the allies of the Jews, despite the enmity that
exists
between them. The enmity between the Jews and the
Christians is deep,
but all of them are in agreement against the monotheists against
those
who say, 'There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is his
messenger,'
that is they are against you, O Muslims. Even if an
agreement of Gaza
is signed - we shall not forget Haifa, and Acre, and the Galilee,
and
Jaffa, and the Triangle and the Negev, and the rest of our cities
and
villages. It is only a matter of time... Have no
mercy on the Jews,
no matter where they are, in any country. Fight them, wherever
you
are. Wherever you meet them, kill them. Wherever you
are, kill those
Jews and those Americans who are like them."
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Monday, October 16, 2000
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Monday, Oct. 16, 2000 / Tishrei 17, 5761
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TODAY'S HEADLINES:
1. PALESTINIAN SHOOTINGS AND ATTACKS ESCALATE
2. THE STONE THAT WAS REJECTED - "EVEN MA'ASU
HABONIM"
3. CHRISTIANS SUPPORT ISRAELI JERUSALEM
4. 94 SENATORS SUPPORT ISRAEL
1. PALESTINIAN SHOOTINGS AND ATTACKS ESCALATE
Palestinian shootings on Israeli targets increased this
afternoon,
after a short period of relative calm. Arabs shot at
Israelis in two
locations near Shechem, at the Ayosh junction north of Ramallah,
and
elsewhere. These incidents were generally accompanied by
rock-throwings and other violence. All in all, two Israeli
soldiers
were lightly wounded, while two Palestinians were killed.
Other Arab
violence took place in Beit Sahour, along the road to Beitar
Illit,
Bethlehem, and other places.
Rachel's Tomb in Bethlehem was specially opened for the Chief
Rabbis
to pray there - the violence of the past two weeks has caused
prevented its opening - and Palestinian youths took advantage to
throw
rocks at the soldiers there. The IDF regional commander in
Shechem
said today that the army is continuing to act with "the
restraint that
comes from strength, in order not to escalate the situation still
further."
A Palestinian policeman fired, from a moving car, at a convoy of
Israeli cars near the Gush Katif junction late this
morning. Near
Shechem, Palestinians opened fire several times on an Israeli
tractor
working on a bypass road there. Palestinians fired on the
Binyamin
town of Psagot early this afternoon; no one was hurt in the above
incidents.
2. THE STONE THAT WAS REJECTED - "EVEN MA'ASU HABONIM"
Gershon Solomon and the Temple Mount Faithful were again
prevented
from ascending to the Temple Mount this holiday - something which
has
become somewhat of a tradition. The police say that the Mount
must be
closed to the group because of threats of violence broadcast by
Voice
of Palestine Radio. Solomon and associates were planning to lay
the
cornerstone for the rebuilding of the Holy Temple. Over
10,000
worshippers arrived at the Western Wall this morning for the
traditional Priestly Blessing ceremony held every Pesach and
Sukkot.
3. CHRISTIANS SUPPORT ISRAELI JERUSALEM
A unique petition calling for a united Jerusalem under Israeli
sovereignty, signed and endorsed by millions of Christians
worldwide,
was presented on Saturday night by the International Christian
Embassy
Jerusalem to Diaspora Affairs Minister Rabbi Michael
Melchior. The
occasion was the ICEJ's 21st Annual Feast of Tabernacles in
Jerusalem,
which, despite the violence that has rocked the region and caused
many
tourists from canceling their trips to Israel, was attended by
over
4,000 delegates - more than 90% of those who had signed up.
The
petition was signed by over 100,000 Christians from 118
countries, and
was endorsed by Christian ministries representing another 15
million
members around the world. The petition supports
"Israel's exclusive
claim to sovereignty over united Jerusalem as the capital of
Israel.
We commend Israel for its exemplary record in guaranteeing access
to
the biblical sites in Jerusalem and throughout Israel, and
support the
continuation of Israel in this role."
Patrick Goodenough, of the ICEJ, recently told Ruth Matar of
Women in
Green on Arutz-7 that when he and a friend once went up to the
Temple
Mount to pray, "we were prevented from doing so by Moslem
Waqf
officials there." Ruth Matar then played, on air, a
quote of Yasser
Arafat explaining his refusal to agree to Israeli sovereignty on
the
Mount with the words, "I cannot betray the Christian
people."
4. 94 SENATORS SUPPORT ISRAEL
Ninety-four Senators have signed a letter to President Clinton
expressing solidarity with the State and people of Israel at this
time
of crisis, condemns the Palestinian leadership for encouraging
the
violence and doing little to stop it, urges the administration to
veto
the passage of unbalanced resolutions at the U.N. Security
Council,
and calls on all parties to revive the peace process. The
letter also
calls on President Clinton to take all necessary steps to secure
the
return of the three Israelis soldiers kidnapped by Hizbullah
terrorists. The letter begins, "We write to you to
express both our
solidarity with the State of Israel at this moment of crisis and
our
profound disappointment and frustration with PLO Chairman Arafat.
It
is, of course, unacceptable for him to resort to violence at any
time.
But to usher in a deliberate campaign of violence now, when the
Government of Israel has been willing to consider unprecedented
and
painful compromises to achieve a final peace agreement, can only
cast
deep and troubling doubts about his desire for peace."
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