[iwar] [fc:Sharon.threatens.war;.declares.Arafat.Era.is.over]

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Date: 2001-10-19 07:23:03

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Israel says Arafat era is over
by Christopher Walker in Jerusalem, Times [UK], October 19, 2001

*  PLO fears leader is target of assassination plot
*  Sharon warning of war within a week

THE Middle East moved closer to a new war yesterday as Ariel Sharon 
declared the Arafat era over and moved tanks into three West Bank 
towns.

Israel also killed a leading Palestinian militant, and the PLO 
claimed to have evidence that the Jewish state was plotting to 
assassinate its leader, Yassir Arafat.

The rapid collapse of the peace process followed the murder of 
Rehavam Zeevi, the Israeli Tourism Minister, by the Popular Front for 
the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) on Wednesday. Mr Sharon said: 
"Arafat has seven days to impose absolute quiet in the (occupied) 
territories. If not, we will go to war against him. As far as I am 
concerned, the era of Arafat is over."

The Palestinians suspect that Israel has decided on its response to 
the killing of Mr Zeevi. Nabil Abu Rdainah, an Arafat aide, said that 
the Palestinian Authority had evidence that Israel was planning to 
assassinate Mr Arafat.

Israel's Security Cabinet is understood to have sent a blunt message 
to Mr Arafat that unless Israel's conditions for the extradition of 
the killers and the outlawing of all Palestinian terror organisations 
were adhered to within one week he "would be treated in the way in 
which the US treats the Taleban".

Although there was some confusion about the precise timing of the new 
Israeli deadline for the surrender of the PFLP killers - whose 
identity ministers claimed to know - officials said that it would run 
out at the end of the seven-day mourning period for Mr Zeevi.

In a reflection of the mood across much of Israel as Mr Zeevi, a 
former army general, was buried with full military honours in 
Jerusalem, his family and other mourners called for retaliation on a 
massive scale to avenge his murder.

The latest Israeli "targeted killing" near the West Bank town of 
Bethlehem was that of Ataf Abayat, a member of the Tanzim militia of 
Mr Arafat's Fatah faction. He died instantly in a car bomb explosion. 
He was high on Israel's wanted list and blamed for the recent death 
of a woman settler.

At least three other Palestinians were killed in clashes across the 
West Bank, as Israeli tanks entered the Palestinian towns of Jenin, 
Nablus and Ramallah. A 10-year-old schoolgirl was killed in Jenin and 
two Palestinian security men using automatic rifles to try to prevent 
tanks advancing into Ramallah also died. The Palestinians said that 
four other schoolgirls and three adults were wounded in Jenin.

The killing of Mr Abayat, and two other Palestinian militants who 
were with him, led to reprisals by Palestinian gunmen, who fired on 
the Jerusalem suburb of Gilo, which Palestinians regard as an illegal 
Jewish settlement. A mortar bomb was fired late in the evening but 
there were no reports of injuries.

In another incident an Israeli man was shot and killed and two of his 
companions were wounded in a drive-by shooting on the road between 
Jerusalem and the West Bank town of Jericho.

Israeli sources refused to comment on the killing of Mr Abayat, who 
had recently been picked up by the Palestinian police and released 
soon after. He was on a wanted list Israel had given to Mr Arafat.

The Palestinian Authority said that it had arrested 11 PFLP members, 
although it was not clear if they included the suspected assassins. 
Ziad Abu Zayad, a Palestinian Cabinet minister, said: "If indeed the 
people behind Zeevi's murder are inside Palestinian Authority 
territory, Arafat needs to arrest them and bring them to trial, but 
not to extradite them to Israel."

Sending tanks into the Palestinian towns, the Israeli Cabinet said 
that it reserved the right to enter Palestinian-ruled territory in 
the West Bank and Gaza Strip whenever "there is an operational need 
to act against terror".

Even moderate Israelis appeared ready for a new cycle of violence. 
Yossi Sarid, leader of the main left-wing Meretz party, said that the 
country was heading inexorably towards a repeat of the Lebanon 
invasion of 1982, which followed the attempted assassination of its 
London ambassador, except this time against the Palestinians in the 
West Bank and Gaza Strip.

In advance of the harsher action against Mr Arafat, Mr Sharon 
nominated four senior ministers to fly to the US to convince the 
Government and people there that the Palestinian leader was not 
cracking down on terrorism.

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