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To: Jill who wrote (5976)	10/18/2001 12:22:30 PM
From: Michael Watkins	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Assorted quotes from Israeli & Palestinian Leaders in past 24 hours, from assassination of Israeli Cabinet Minister Rechavam Zeevi Oct 17 Cabinet secretary Gideon Saar "Israel will act against the Palestinian Authority in the way currently accepted by the international community to act against a leadership that supports terror" Cabinet secretary Gideon Saar "If the Palestinian Authority does not comply with this demand [decree calling on the Palestinian Authority to immediately hand over the "murderers and their senders"], Israel will see the Palestinian Authority as an entity that supports terror" Palestinian minister for Jerusalem Ziyad Abu Ziyad "We are afraid Sharon will exploit what happened" Terje Larsen, the U.N. representative in the Middle East "[Arafat's] words are not enough. It has to be followed by deeds. [...] The test of the authority exercised on the ground by the Palestinian Authority is now, and we will have to judge what is happening on the ground" Yasser Arafat "[the assassination is] extremely damaging to the Palestinian cause." Kayed al-Gul, a Front official in Gaza [commenting on arrests of PFLP leaders arrested] "This is bad for Palestinian national unity. It's a bad move for the Palestinian police. We ask Palestinian police to release the three leaders as soon as possible." Ariel Sharon "We will wage a war without mercy against the terrorists. Only criminal terrorists could dream of assassinating elected members of a democratic state" Ariel Sharon "The situation is different today, and will not again be like it was yesterday," said Sharon before the cabinet meeting. *'Yesterday' (Just prior to the assassination Oct 16)* Shimon Peres "We want to see an independent Palestinian state, successful, flourishing. We think that the better the Palestinians will have it, the better neighbour we shall have"