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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Scoobah who wrote (419)	11/18/2001 10:15:40 AM
From: Scoobah	Respond to of 32591

Sunday, November 18, 2001 Kislev 3, 5762 Israel Time: 17:12 (GMT+2) 12:47 18/11/2001 Last update - 15:19 18/11/2001 Ben Eliezer: relative quiet due to IDF operations, not Arafat By Amos Harel, Ha'aretz Correspondent, and Agencies The relative quiet in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and the lower rate of terror attacks is the result of Israel Defense Forces operations and not a clampdown by Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat on terror, Defense Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer told the weekly cabinet meeting Sunday morning. Ben-Eliezer told the ministers that last week's arrest of the head of Islamic Jihad's military wing, Mohammed "Norsi" Tualbeh, was an effort to relieve some of the international pressure on Arafat. "We are talking about internal control within the [Palestinian] Authority and not about a new policy of stopping terror and arresting militants," he said. Meanwhile, Palestinian sources said a 15-year-old Palestinian youth died of wounds he sustained in a gun battle near Jenin over the weekend. A bomb was defused at Har Eival, near Nablus, on Sunday morning. In Gaza, three Israelis, a security officer in charge of security at a settlement, his deputy and anther man were lightly injured when Palestinian gunmen fired at their vehicle in the Neve Dekalim industrial zone, which is located in the Gush Katif settlement bloc.