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Cabinet Communique |
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Cabinet Communique |
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| (21/10/2001) |
At the weekly Cabinet meeting today (Sunday), 21.10.2001:
1. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon noted that everything which the security
establishment and the IDF have done in recent days was in accordance
with decisions of the security Cabinet and added that, therefore, any
reports to the contrary are baseless.
Prime Minister Sharon said that as long as terrorism continues without
arrests - we will make the arrests; if there are no counter-terrorist
actions, we will act to prevent terrorist actions.
Prime Minister Sharon declared that the government wishes to return to
the diplomatic negotiations according to the outline of the Mitchell
plan; however, this will be possible only after:
A. The complete cessation of terrorism and incitement;
B. Terrorist organizations are outlawed and disbanded, and their members
are arrested;
C. Those who assassinated Tourism Minister Rechavam Zeevy, as well as
those who dispatched the assassins, are extradited.
Prime Minister Sharon asserted that Israel has no intention of remaining
in the places that the IDF has entered. The amount of time that the IDF
will remain in these areas depends, in large measure, on Palestinian
Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat and the counter-terrorist actions he
will take.
Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer made it clear that the goal of the
IDF actions in recent days is to prevent terrorism that originates in
Area A from being perpetrated inside Israel. The IDF has no intention
of toppling the Palestinian Authority; its purpose is to defend the
residents of Israel.
IDF Chief-of-Staff Lt.-Gen. Shaul Mofaz briefed the Cabinet on the IDF
actions in the cities under Palestinian Authority control and noted that
this was the most wide-ranging IDF ground action against the PA to
date. Chief-of-Staff Mofaz referred to the action's effects on the PA
and insisted that Israel would uphold its right to self-defense. |
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