The PA is looking for more United Nations intervention. It announced today that it would turn to the UN Security Council and ask it to intervene in what the PA called the \"siege that Israel has imposed on the villages in the Ramallah and Jerusalem areas.\" The IDF has instituted a strong encirclement around these areas, including dozens of new checkpoints and groups of soldiers patrolling the exits from the villages. Similar means have been in force along the Gush Etzion-Jerusalem highway for the past few days. The Palestinians claim that such a level of encirclement has not been seen since the days of the Six-Day War, but the army says that the measures are necessary in light of the many terrorist attacks perpetrated by terrorists from these areas.
Furthermore, the PA recently turned to the UN with a demand that 2,000 armed international observers be sent to areas of conflict in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza. Israel Radio reported that Israel\'s UN Ambassador Yehuda Lankri believes that the demand is likely to be approved by the Security Council, forcing the United States to veto the proposed resolution.
The European Union, for its part, is exerting heavy pressure on the Palestinian Authority to cease its violence upon Israeli targets from the areas under its control. The Union has made it clear that it will not transfer monetary aid if the violence continues.
Israel, in turn, rejects the PA\'s claims that it has no money to pay salaries. Prime Minister Sharon told Newsweek that for the time being - in light of the continued Palestinian Authority violence and its debts to Israel - Israel has no intention of remitting designated tax-monies to the PA. Sharon rejected the United States request on the matter, saying \"They have property worth over a billion dollars all over the world.\"
Furthermore, the PA recently turned to the UN with a demand that 2,000 armed international observers be sent to areas of conflict in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza. Israel Radio reported that Israel\'s UN Ambassador Yehuda Lankri believes that the demand is likely to be approved by the Security Council, forcing the United States to veto the proposed resolution.
The European Union, for its part, is exerting heavy pressure on the Palestinian Authority to cease its violence upon Israeli targets from the areas under its control. The Union has made it clear that it will not transfer monetary aid if the violence continues.
Israel, in turn, rejects the PA\'s claims that it has no money to pay salaries. Prime Minister Sharon told Newsweek that for the time being - in light of the continued Palestinian Authority violence and its debts to Israel - Israel has no intention of remitting designated tax-monies to the PA. Sharon rejected the United States request on the matter, saying \"They have property worth over a billion dollars all over the world.\"