IDF Intelligence Chief Gen. Aharon Ze'evi-Farkash says that Arafat is personally preventing any chance for successful dialogue with Israel. Farkash told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee today that Arafat does not allow his underlings to have contacts with Israelis, while he continues to back terrorist attacks. The Intelligence Chief also warned that Arafat would try to influence the Israeli elections.
Environment Minister Tzachi HaNegbi joined the chorus of those calling for Yasser Arafat's expulsion today. Arafat, as the supreme commander of Fatah - which carried out the Kibbutz Metzer murders - must pay the price, HaNegbi said.
After a hiatus of a few days, three mortar shells fired by Palestinian terrorists hit a Jewish community in Gaza this morning... Arab gunmen fired at an IDF outpost in Gush Katif; no one was hurt, and the soldiers returned fire... A bomb exploded alongside an Israeli car near Elon Moreh in the Shomron; no one was hurt, but the car was damaged...
Following Sunday night's murder of two children and three adults in Kibbutz Metzer, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has ordered the IDF to transfer 1,600 M-16 rifles to residents in the area, just west of the 1967 armistice line. Sharon asked that bureaucratic procedures for the guns' transfer from IDF emergency warehouses be shortened. Regional council leaders have also been promised that the construction of electronic fences around the towns would be rushed up.
Environment Minister Tzachi HaNegbi joined the chorus of those calling for Yasser Arafat's expulsion today. Arafat, as the supreme commander of Fatah - which carried out the Kibbutz Metzer murders - must pay the price, HaNegbi said.
After a hiatus of a few days, three mortar shells fired by Palestinian terrorists hit a Jewish community in Gaza this morning... Arab gunmen fired at an IDF outpost in Gush Katif; no one was hurt, and the soldiers returned fire... A bomb exploded alongside an Israeli car near Elon Moreh in the Shomron; no one was hurt, but the car was damaged...
Following Sunday night's murder of two children and three adults in Kibbutz Metzer, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has ordered the IDF to transfer 1,600 M-16 rifles to residents in the area, just west of the 1967 armistice line. Sharon asked that bureaucratic procedures for the guns' transfer from IDF emergency warehouses be shortened. Regional council leaders have also been promised that the construction of electronic fences around the towns would be rushed up.