Where they differ is over
how to do this.

Double Entendre

The Sharon-Ben-Eliezer
school was greatly strength-
ened by a series of damning
intelligence reports that
emerged late last year. For
example, according to
Israeli military intelligence,
the day before Arafat
announced a cease-fire in
mid-December, he con-
vened a group of Palestinian
intellectuals at the
Casablanca Hotel in
Ramallah and detailed a
long-term strategy for the
destruction of Israel.
Israeli intelligence also
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is surrounded by his
reported that on numerous
bodyguards at his office in the West Bank town of
occasions, after condemning Ramallah on April 2.
Palestinian suicide attacks
on camera for the world
media, Arafat celebrated the
Moreover, the aides say, the bottom
bombers' "success" with his confidants,
line is that as long as Arafat is around,
and made it plain that he would like to the Palestinians won't do a thing to fight
see more such attacks.
terror. They argue that the Tanzim,
This shows, some intelligence offi-
which has been carrying out most of the
cials argue, that Arafat is not interested suicide bombings, is part of Arafat's
in a deal with Israel under any circum-
own Fatah organization and would not
stances, and that he has embarked on a
act unless it had a "green light," whether
fight to the death with the Jewish state. explicit or implicit, from Arafat.
Others don't go quite that far: They
As long as Arafat gives the green
say. Arafat does want a peace deal, but
light to terror, they say, Palestinian
only one imposed by the international
security chiefs like Mohammed
community, so Arafat can say he was
Dahlan and Jibril Rajoub won't dare
forced into it.
lift a finger against it.
Sharon's aides say it makes no differ-
Sharon is no longer prepared to toler-
ence: Either way, there is no point in
talking to Arafat.
ARAFAT on page 26

Israel Launched

going to resettle Jews who immigrate
to Israel as a result of Argentina's eco-
nomic crisis.
Officials say the Israel Emergency
Campaign will be larger, more cen-
tralized and more forceful than UJC
efforts on Israel's behalf that started
earlier in the 18-month-old
Palestinian intifada (uprising).
The previous effort, called Israel
Now, has raised $90 million since
September, with each federation
deciding independently whether to
do extra fund-raising for Israel and
how to allocate it.
Several major federations, includ-
ing Washington, New York, Boston

and Detroit, have already intensified
their fund-raising efforts for Israel in
the past few days.
In perhaps the most dramatic step,
the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan
Detroit has declared a month-long
moratorium on all other activities but
raising money for Israel.
At the Detroit federation, which
hopes to raise at least $5 million for
Israel in the coming month, there
will be "no more planning meet-
ings, no more calls about day
school education, no more business
as usual for the next 30 days," said
Robert Aronson, the federation's
executive vice president.

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