(Ha'aretz) Amos Harel - Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz said Friday that Arafat had instructed the heads of the terror organizations to kill more Israelis. Referring to a conversation between Arafat and the leaders of the terror groups in February 2001, the defense minister charged that "the Palestinian plan was to cause a few thousand Israeli deaths within a number of months, so that Israel would give in to them....It was tantamount to giving a green light to the suicide terror attacks against Israel."
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