...nos, a hatalom megtartása érdekében a szövegét már kezdi változtatni Arafat - kérdés, hogy a terroristái mikor kerülnek ismét abba a helyzetbe, hogy rászabadíthassa őket Izraelre. A jelek szerint még egy kis időre van szükségük, még egy kis "hudnát" szeretnének megjátszani - másrészt Izrael nem áll meg a terroristák felszámolásával, hanem azt ismételgeti, hogy a palesztínai arabok rendfenntartó erői szívesen látott partnerek lehetnek a palesztínai arabok terroristáinak felszámolásában - ha már ennyire zavarja őket, hogy helyettük kénytelen Izrael fáradozni a gyilkosok eltakarításával...
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Arafat calls on terror groups to renew hudna
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The Jerusalem Post Internet Staff Aug. 27, 2003
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Yasser Arafat called on terror organizations to reinstate the cease-fire on attacks against Israel which they formally abandoned last week, following an Israeli missile strike.
A statement by his office said Arafat is calling on the armed groups to renew their commitment to a truce and "to give a chance to political and peaceful efforts by the international community to implement the road map," a reference to the US-backed peace plan.
Israel dismissed Arafat's appeal as empty rhetoric and said the army would keep rounding up terror suspects and hunting down their leaders.
Raanan Gissin, an adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, said Arafat's statement was meaningless. "Arafat has never stopped supporting the strategy of terror," Gissin said. "He has over 60 percent of the Palestinian Authority forces under his control and has done nothing with them to pursue a peaceful solution. He has no interest in a peaceful solution."
Israel has already snubbed Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas' call to join any new cease-fire, demanding that instead Palestinian security forces clamp down on armed groups and carry out arrests.
Earlier Wednesday the Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat said that he was ready to take action against militant groups if Israel halted the targeted assassinations and missile strikes against them.
"I am prepared to implement the law (against militants) on condition Israel stops its attacks," Arafat said in an interview with the Reuters news agency at his headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah.
"I am not prepared to fuel a Palestinian civil war. I am, however, prepared to implement the law on condition Israel halts its attacks," he said.
The U.S. government had turned up the heat on Arafat on Tuesday.
"The security forces need to be consolidated under Prime Minister Abbas and Dahlan," White House spokeswoman Claire Buchan said, referring to Abbas' security chief, Mohammed Dahlan.
"Clearly, by blocking the consolidation ... Arafat undercuts the fight against terrorism and further undermines the hope of the Palestinian people for peace and a Palestinian state," she said.
But Arafat's new security adviser, Rajoub, said it was now up to the United States to persuade Israel to hold back and promised that the Palestinian Authority would quickly respond.
"The ball is now the American court to pressure Israel and monitor the process of implementation," Rajoub said. "If Israel stops its attacks and begins to take serious steps to end the occupation, all the conditions that are demanded of the Palestinians will be fulfilled on the spot."
Abbas: IAF strikes will restart violence
Also Wednesday Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas told his cabinet Wednesday that Tuesday's failed IAF assassination attempt on Hamas terrorists is an expression of Israel's brutality and would return the region to a cycle of violence.
An elderly Palestinian man was killed and 26 others, mostly bystanders, were wounded when IAF helicopters fired three missiles at a car containing two or three Hamas operatives on the road between Gaza City and the Jabalya refugee camp Tuesday evening.
Palestinian security chief Mohammed Dahlan also said that Tuesday's missile strike would only bring out a violent response from the Palestinian people.
(With The Associated Press)
