Recent assurances by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon that he has a coherent pro-active plan for dismantling the Arab terrorist infrastructure in Judea, Samaria and Gaza were apparently contradicted this morning by two senior members of his own government. IMRA\'s Dr. Aaron Lerner notes that Foreign Minister Peres, speaking on Voice of Israel radio, asserted that the IDF has been instructed to only retaliate, but not initiate, strikes against Arab terrorist targets. Defense Minister Binyamin Ben Eliezer, also a member of Peres\' Labor party faction in the National Unity Government, confirmed that this is indeed the Sharon government\'s policy. Ben-Eliezer said that the main difference between the Barak and Sharon administrations is that the new administration refuses to negotiate under fire. Likud MK Yuval Shteinitz, however, said on the same program that Israel would be ill-advised to take a reactive approach; in Shteinitz\'s view, such a strategy would allow Arafat to \"call the shots,\" deciding which forces to expose to attack and which to keep in reserve for future battles.