The IDF anti-terrorism offensive in the PA-controlled areas: Prime Minister Sharon, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, and Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer - the three ministers who together compose the security mini-Cabinet - will convene this evening to decide if and when to withdraw the Israeli forces. Peres, who returned to Israel from Washington this morning, said at Ben-Gurion International Airport, \"Israel should not take lightly the serious American request that we leave these areas. The U.S. feels that it responds to our requests, and we must therefore do the same.\" Peres then qualified his impression, saying, \"The moment the situation calms down, and the Palestinians carry out what they are supposed to, this will enable us to leave.\"