The Yesha Council (Council of Judea, Samaria, and Gaza Communities) leadership held an emergency meeting at Karnei Shomron last night. The Council demands that Prime Minister Sharon immediately put an end to the policy of restraint and urgently \"defeat the largest terror organization in the world - the Palestinian Authority.\" The last 18 months have proved that it is not enough to thwart specific actions and to carry out limited responses, the Council resolved, but rather \"an operation to bring down the Palestinian Authority and clean out the territory of terrorists and the terror infrastructure must be carried out.\"



MK Michael Kleiner (Herut) said in response to last night\'s murderous attack, \"The Palestinians are trying to win the war with points and we must defeat them in a knockout. We can\'t win the war without retaking the territories of Judea, Samaria and Gaza, and expelling everyone holding a weapon and every terrorist.\"



MK Tommy Lapid, head of the socially-left but politically-right (somewhat) Shinui party, demands that Sharon appear before the public today and explain the situation. \"It cannot be that after a weekend of killing, and when Sharon is quoted as declaring war, he doesn\'t tell the public what is going on,\" Lapid said.