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ISRAEL A String of Assassinations The assassinations of Israeli cabinet minister Rehavam Ze?evi and at least three Palestinian militants marked a fresh escalation of hostilities. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon blamed Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat for the killing of Israel?s hard-line Tourism Minister at a Jerusalem hotel and demanded that he hand over those responsible. Israeli troops reoccupied West Bank towns and a 10-year-old girl was among those killed by tank fire. The death of a Palestinian militant, Atef Abayat, in a car-bomb explosion in Bethlehem was seen as part of the Israeli response...
Though Nusseibeh says he is not trying to take over directly from Husseini, two weeks ago Yasser Arafat appointed him head of a new council for East Jerusalem?s 260,000 Palestinian residents. Nusseibeh hopes it will link them more strongly to Arafat?s Palestinian Authority (P.A.) in the West Bank while also smoothing relations with Israel. He intends that council members join with bureaucrats from Arafat?s ministries to allocate P.A. money to the city?s hospitals, schools and services, which are currently funded piecemeal by Israel and private charities. But he also argues that the council would have...
TIME: It was your plan to set up a council of leading Jerusalem Palestinians. Did this have Yasser Arafat?s approval...
After a Palestinian assailant murdered Israeli Tourism Minister Rehavam Ze’evi two weeks ago, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon gave Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Yasser Arafat a stark choice: hand over the murderers or pay the price. In the days since the first-ever assassination of a cabinet minister by a Palestinian, Arafat has not sufficiently cooperated with Israel in tracking down, arresting and handing over the suspects...
...another terrorist organization will likely retaliate for the invasions and the 38 Palestinians who died during them. As the staff says, Palestinian opinion is so anti-Israel (a higher percentage of people in Gaza support attacks on Israel than support the peace process) that it is nearly impossible for Yasser Arafat and the Palestinian Authority to try to bring terrorists to justice...