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July 23, 2002       Share:    

Source: http://www.iht.com/articles/64931.html

When Chief of Staff Ya'alon Met Arafat

(International Herald Tribune) Uri Dromi - When IDF Chief of Staff General Moshe Ya'alon was chief of military intelligence in 1996, at a time when Palestinian suicide bombers were blowing up buses in Jerusalem, then-Prime Minister Shimon Peres sent him to Gaza to demand that Arafat stop the terror. When Ya'alon asked Arafat to arrest terrorist mastermind Mohammed Def, Arafat looked around at his aides. "Mohammed who?" he asked, and the men chuckled under their moustaches. Ya'alon knew that Def had met Arafat in the very same room the previous week. So the general went back to headquarters to help prepare the army for the inevitable.

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