US Mideast Envoy Gen. Anthony Zinni will wind up his four-day visit today after meetings with senior Israeli and PA officials. Zinni will brief Foreign Minister Shimon Peres this morning regarding the meetings with PA officials over the weekend.
US officials have indicated that despite Israel\'s capture of 50 tons of PLO war materials, if there is no escalation of violence between Israel and the PA, Zinni will return for another short visit in twelve days time.
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Ministers Peres and Ben-Eliezer met with Zinni and US Ambassador to Israel Daniel Kurtzer on Friday at Sharon\'s Shikmim farm in the Negev. They discussed various ways to press PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat and other PLO leaders to make a strategic decision to combat terrorism and the terrorist organizations. The Israeli team\'s position is that the only way to get Arafat to act is for the US and Europe to increase pressure on him.
US officials have indicated that despite Israel\'s capture of 50 tons of PLO war materials, if there is no escalation of violence between Israel and the PA, Zinni will return for another short visit in twelve days time.
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Ministers Peres and Ben-Eliezer met with Zinni and US Ambassador to Israel Daniel Kurtzer on Friday at Sharon\'s Shikmim farm in the Negev. They discussed various ways to press PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat and other PLO leaders to make a strategic decision to combat terrorism and the terrorist organizations. The Israeli team\'s position is that the only way to get Arafat to act is for the US and Europe to increase pressure on him.