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Chief of Staff: Arafat Does Not Want a Cease-fire


(Yediot Ahronot)- Smadar Shmueli IDF Chief of Staff Moshe Ya'alon told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Tuesday: "Arafat sent his representatives to the Cairo talks without a mandate." "In my opinion, Arafat is not interested in a general cease-fire. He assumes that the Israeli side will break, and he is prepared for only temporary and local cease-fires." The chief of staff also said the international organizations that supervise the transfer of funds from Israel to the PA are not preventing the leakage of funds to support terror.
2003-01-01 00:00:00
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