May 11, 2001 • Page Image 30
…Itching To Escalate Smuggled arms seizure pushes Arafat, Sharon further apart. men. But Israel is working on the assumption that the Palestinians — either Arafat's myriad security services or radicals like Hamas and Islamic Jihad — are now capable of escalating the con- flict. How, then, would Israel respond? "More of the same," predicts Ron Ben-Ishai, Yediot Acharonot's military analyst. Defying international criticism, he suggested, the ar...…

















































