-Caveat Lector- Kahane's son killed after Arafat's Fatah urges intensified attacks By DINA KRAFT The Associated Press 12/31/00 3:17 AM JERUSALEM (AP) -- The son of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane, an anti-Arab leader, was killed along with his wife in a shooting attack on their car in the West Bank on Sunday, a day after Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction called for an intensification of violence. The couple's five children were injured. The victims were in a car that was fired upon as it passed the Palestinian village of Ein Yavrud, an Israeli army spokesman said. The car flipped over and fell into a ravine after the driver, Binyamin Zeev Kahane, 34, was killed. His wife Talia, 31, also died and five children were injured, one seriously, the army said. Meir Kahane, who headed the now-outlawed Kach movement, advocated expelling Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza Strip. He was assassinated in New York in 1990. His son Binyamin lived in the West Bank settlement of Tapuah and ran a religious school that kept the extremist policies of his father alive. Before the victims were identified publicly, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak called the shooting was a "grave attack" and said that due to such violence, reservations among Israeli security officials will be included in Israel's list of proposed amendments to an American peace plan. But Barak said the army does not oppose the government's persistence in seeking a peace deal. "There of course is not a problem here of support for the continuation of the peace process," he told Israel radio. Three months of hostilities have killed almost 350 people, most of them Palestinians. With Israel and the Palestinians appearing deadlocked over terms of a peace plan that President Clinton has suggested, Fatah called on Palestinians Saturday to step up their attacks on Israelis. Arafat's movement urged its followers and fighters "to make the next two weeks days of struggle against Israeli soldiers and settlers." "The continuation of the Intefadeh is the only way, the only method, of achieving independence," Fatah said in a statement that spoke of Palestinians' "utter rejection" of Clinton's ideas. While Arafat is under international pressure to accept Clinton's proposals as the basis for a final peace deal, he faces broad demands at home to stay with the popular uprising. Arafat traveled to Tunisia for talks Sunday with Tunisian President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali, his latest bid to gauge Arab support for peace on Clinton's terms. A key test will come next week, when Arab foreign ministers are to weigh in on the peace plan. Israeli Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben-Ami spoke Saturday with the foreign ministers of Egypt and Jordan and told them Israel accepts the basic guidelines of Clinton's proposals but has some reservations, Ben-Ami's office said. Making a final peace push in his last three weeks in office, Clinton is asking the two sides for a trade-off: Israel would concede Arab parts of Jerusalem, including control of Judaism's most revered holy site. In turn, Palestinians would scale back demands on the "right of return" for millions of Palestinian refugees and their descendants. Both sides have signaled unwillingness to compromise on those crucial points, although Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak has not explicitly ruled out international sovereignty over the disputed holy site, known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as Haram as-Sharif, the Noble Sanctuary. Palestinian officials said Saturday that recent days had seen back-channel negotiations in New York with Palestinian and Israeli officials and U.S. mediators -- but that the meetings had ended in deadlock. Senior Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said he called U.S. mediator Dennis Ross on Saturday to insist his side needed more details on the terms of Clinton's plan before it could respond to his invitation to peace talks. "We can't make a decision on the U.S. proposals since issues like Jerusalem, the border, security and settlements and refugees are not clear," Erekat told The Associated Press. A leader of Israel's dovish Meretz party urged compromise, saying one side would have to give ground if the other did: Palestinians on refugees, and then Israel on the sovereignty of the Temple Mount. "If the leaders don't take the responsibility to do this, this historic chance, which is the greatest opportunity in the history of both nations, will be missed," lawmaker Yossi Sarid said. Clashes Saturday moved to Israel's northern frontier, the scene of Israeli-Lebanese violence earlier this week. Israeli security forces said their troops shot a man among a crowd of Lebanese stone-throwers when he tried to climb over a border fence. The man died. Spurred by the earlier border violence, Iranian Defense Minister Ali Shamkhani was quoted in Saturday's Kuwaiti Al-Watan newspaper as saying Iran would not leave its "strategic ally Syria" or Lebanon to face Israel alone. Iran's state-run Islamic Republic News Agency later carried a Defense Ministry statement denying that Shamkhani had made similar comments to a Lebanese daily newspaper, Al-Mustaqbal. The statement said the minister had not granted the Lebanese newspaper any interview. Iranian Defense Ministry officials could not be reached late Saturday, and it was not clear whether the ministry was denying only the Al-Mustaqbal interview or the substance of the report. Israel has threatened to take action against Syria if the violence along its northern frontier continues. Syria is the main power broker in Lebanon, where it stations some 30,000 troops, and Iran is the principal backer of Lebanon's Hezbollah guerrillas. In the West Bank town of Nablus, 2,000 Palestinians turned out for a rally organized by the militant Islamic group Hamas to pay tribute to a suicide bomber who blew himself up in an Israeli cafe last week. Three Israeli soldiers were injured. In the Gaza Strip, the army said soldiers foiled a bomb attempt along an Israeli-controlled road. The soldiers confronted a group of people setting the explosive, injuring one of the suspects, an army spokesman said. In Austria, meanwhile, a Defense Ministry official confirmed Austrian authorities were mediating in an attempt at a prisoner exchange between Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah militia. Media reports have said the efforts, under way since early November, seek the return of three Israeli soldiers and one reserve officer captured in October in exchange for 19 Lebanese imprisoned in Israel. 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