The IDF operations have drawn almost no reaction from the international community. The Italian Prime Minister phoned Prime Minister Sharon last night and asked him to \"show restraint,\" promising to transmit the same message to Arafat, while from the U.S. criticism was heard only from an unnamed Administration source to Reuters. The Danish Foreign Minister compared last week\'s assassination of Minister Rehavam Ze\'evi by Palestinian terrorists to Israel\'s killing of leading PA terrorists; Israeli officials
accused him of being purely anti-Israeli.
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak told an Aermican official a few days ago that he \"does not believe Arafat and his declarations about fighting terrorism.\" He further told a Newsweek interviewer, \"Arafat can\'t make decisions by himself, or else his people will leave him. Arafat has some terrible people around him, like Marwan Bargouti, the head of the Tanzim.\"
accused him of being purely anti-Israeli.
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak told an Aermican official a few days ago that he \"does not believe Arafat and his declarations about fighting terrorism.\" He further told a Newsweek interviewer, \"Arafat can\'t make decisions by himself, or else his people will leave him. Arafat has some terrible people around him, like Marwan Bargouti, the head of the Tanzim.\"