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Israel, PA still faraway from peace talks despite US move
JERUSALEM, Aug 8: While toe United States is touting a new initiative to salvage Mideast peacemaking, in toe Mideast nobody — not Israeli leaders, not Palestinian leaders — is talking peace, reports AP.
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat warned Thursday of a "giant explosion" in the middle East, and Israel kept up a crackdown imposed after last week's twin's suicide bombing, demolishing two Palestinian homes and arresting a dozen suspected militants Thursday.
The Clinton administration, preparing for another high-profile, high-stakes mediation effort. is sending envoy Dennis Ross to the region this weekend to try to get peace talks back on track. A State Department spokesman publicly scolded both Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for what he called inappropriate. incendiary remarks
But those remarks — which included a call by Arafat to "prepare for battle and an accusation try Netanyahu compar-
ing toe Palestinian Authority to "Iran, or Iraq, or Libya" — showed little sign of subsiding.
In an interview with Israel's Yediot Ahronot newspaper published Thursday. Arafat said Netanyahu "has declared war on us. and we have to get ready for what’s coming.
"Netanyahu is attacking an entire civilian population? he said. "If he goes on with these measures, this will lead to a giant explosion. No one will be able to stop it."
For his part. Netanyahu insisted that Arafat's failure to fight terrorism had created a crisis of trust' between Israel and the Palestinians.
On Thursday. Netanyahu's defense minister. Yitzhak Mordechai, approved plans by Jewish settlers to expand an enclave in the West Bank city of Hebron. Channel Two TV said. Mordechai s office refused to comment on the report.
After last week's suicide bombings, which killed 15 peo pie at a crowded Jerusalem vegetable market. Israel suspended
peace talks, ordered mass arrests, clamped a travel ban on the West Bank and Gaza and halted the transfer of vital tax revenues to Arafat's self-rule government.
On Thursday. Palestinians blamed the travel ban for the death of a 90-year-old woman, saying she had been unable to reach a Jerusalem hospital for crucial surgery to remove blood clots in her leg.
Netanyahu has said he will remove blood clots in her leg
Netanyahu has said he will ease the sanctions only If Arafat cracks down on terrorism. He rejected Palestinian claims that the measures were undermining Arafat's standing among his own people — which could be crucial to the success of the peace process
"If someone tells me that Arafat is weakened, he is weakened because he does not fight the terrorist organisations and they are getting stronger," Netanyahu told a meeting of his Likud Party on Thursday.
David Bar-Illan. a top ad-
vlser to Netanyahu, accused Arafat of giving "clear signs that the war option is still very much on the minds of the Pales-tinian Authority." Arafat told leaders of his Fatah faction of the PLO this week to prepare for battle that Netanyahu is forcing on us. because what Is coming is worse than what has already been."
Fatah is training commandos to confront Israeli forces if they try to enter Palestinian-controlled cities. Palestinian officials said Wednesday.
Arafat said Thursday that by "battle" he meant that "the Palestinian people should withstand the siege imposed upon all the Palestinian cities and villages."
The United States is demanding that Arafat do more to combat terrorism and Is urging Netanyahu to ease the punitive measures.
US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright is expected to make her first trip to the region at the end of the month.