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Sharon plans to urge Bush to sever all contacts with Arafat
>From David Horovitz, in Jerusalem
THE MIDDLE EAST: Having made clear in one Hebrew newspaper interview
his regrets that Mr Yasser Arafat was not killed by Israel 20 years
ago, the Israeli Prime Minister, Mr Ariel Sharon, told a second
newspaper yesterday that he will urge President Bush next week to
sever all contacts with the Palestinian Authority president.
Mr Sharon, who is to visit the White House on Thursday, told the top-
selling Yediot Ahronot tabloid he planned to tell Mr Bush: "Ignore
Arafat. Boycott him. Don't have any contact with him and don't send
him delegations."
Palestinian officials yesterday urged Mr Bush to reject such demands.
But in practice, the president is already virtually following them.
While his meeting with Mr Sharon will be the fourth in the past year,
he has not met Mr Arafat and shows no sign of intending to do so. And
he has suspended the peacemaking efforts of the US State Department
envoy, Mr Anthony Zinni, demanding yesterday that Mr Arafat "do a
better job to fight terror".
Mr Bush indicated he considered Mr Arafat responsible for the 50-ton Iranian arms
shipment intercepted by Israel, apparently en route to Gaza, in the Red Sea last
month, saying that it had been ordered "for terrorist purp
oses" and "in total contrast to what he [Mr Arafat] assured us: that he would help us
fight against terror."
EU officials are attempting to moderate the strong anti-Arafat line. Mr Javier Solana,
the EU's foreign policy chief, has been urging US officials not to sever contacts with
Mr Arafat. A Palestinian delegation, led by the
parliamentary Speaker, Mr Abu Ala, is to hold talks with US officials next week, with
the same aim.
Mr Sharon's moderate Labour party partners are also increasingly discomfited by the
prime minister's rigid anti-Arafat position, but have yet to indicate a serious desire
to bolt the coalition.
The ongoing intifada confrontation is causing dissent within the army, however, where
some 50 reserve officers have signed a letter pledging to refuse further service in
the occupied territories. All are expected to lose
their officer rank.
A former head of the Shin Bet security service, Mr Ami Ayalon, has said that soldiers
are sometimes being asked to take "illegal" actions and too few of them are refusing
to do so.
"To shoot an unarmed youth is a blatantly illegal order," said Mr Ayalon. "I am very
worried by the number of Palestinian children shot in the past year."
Israel is still on high alert for further bombing attacks; sappers defused a large
explosive device placed in an apartment block in the town of Tsur Hadassah, outside
Jerusalem, yesterday morning.
In remarks published by the Ma'ariv newspaper on Thursday, Mr Sharon was quoted as
saying he was "sorry we didn't eliminate" Mr Arafat in Lebanon in 1982.
In the full text of the interview, published yesterday, Mr Sharon
does not make that remark, but answers "yes" when asked by the
interviewer whether he regrets the failure to kill the Palestinian
leader at the time and then adds: "Our situation would be a lot
better."
© The Irish Times
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