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Use of children for terror in Jenin (26.10.02)
Israeli TV reported on 25.10.02 that the IDF forces in Jenin noticed a group of Palestinian kids trying to provoke the soldiers to go into a street. There the soldiers saw a box in the middle of the road and suspected that it might be a trick to lure them to the spot. Indeed, the box contained an explosive device. The Palestinian terrorists once again used children in order to execute their deadly plans.
A group of Palestinian children crowding and provoke the soldiers to act.
The soldiers see a suspicious box in the middle of the road.
The soldiers shoot at the box, causing the bomb to blast.
Fourteen-year-old child that attempted terrorist attack in Netzarim, is returned to the Palestinian Authority (23.1.03)
This morning, 23 January 2003, one of the Palestinian boys, that attempted to carry out a terrorist attack in Netzarim on 11 January 2003, was returned to the Palestinian Authority. The boy was suffering from a leg fracture and received medical treatment at the "Soroka" hospital in Be'er Sheba. He was transferred to the "Shifa" hospital in the Palestinian Authority. His older brother is still being questioned by the Israeli security forces.
The two children, aged 14 and 17, infiltrated the community of Netzarim, situated in the northern Gaza Strip, armed with knives, in the hopes of carrying out a terrorist attack. The two boys encountered a resident of the community who opened fire towards them. The boys were caught by the IDF forces that arrived at the scene.
Palestinian Children's Role in Warfare (25.11.02)
Israel Defense Forces bulletin
A report published by the Hizbollah's weekly journal has uncovered new evidence of Palestinian children's active involvement in terrorist activity earlier this year in the Jenin refugee camp.
The children were questioned by a reporter from the Hizbollah's journal and confessed to him that they had been involved in the manufacturing of weapons and ammunition, and that they had actively participated in the fighting alongside armed terrorists.
"We traded rocks and stones for hand grenades"
Palestinian terrorists in the Jenin refugee camp seemed to have studied the IDF's operational strategies, and taught the young children in the camp how to counterattack. The children of Jenin refugee camp had been taught at a very young age to throw stones at IDF soldiers but they had begun to replace their stones and rocks with hand grenades and small explosive charges. "We traded stones and rocks for hand grenades because the impact is so much stronger" explained Rami, a young child in Jenin refugee camp.
As time went on, the children began to get more and more involved in terrorist activities, even participating in the manufacture of explosives, weapons, and ammunition.
A system was developed whereby one group of children would assist in the manufacturing of weapons and a second group of children would strategically place them around the area specified to them by a senior terrorist operative. A third group of children was instructed to set up ambushes in street corners and carried bags filled to the brim with explosives.
"The child threw 50 explosive charges at IDF soldiers"
Reporter Sami Magnin said that he had seen children being trained to use explosive charges for the purpose of attacking the 'Israeli enemy'. Fadi - a young resident of the camp said: "the explosives are designed to blow their heads off, the next time they dare enter our camp will be over our dead bodies".
During the battle in Jenin, earlier this year, sounds of explosions could be heard throughout the camp. The residents, upon hearing these explosions, ran out of their homes fearing that the IDF was firing grenades in the camp when, in fact, these explosions were charges planted and detonated by militant Palestinian children.
Muatsin - age 16, used to kiss the grenades he carried on his back before throwing them at IDF soldiers: "Allah, make this explosive as powerful as a ball of fire so that it burns the hearts of the Jews" he would say.
Witnesses said that the young 16 year old "threw at least 50 grenades at IDF soldiers. Other children fought alongside him, defending the camp. They succeeded in damaging five tanks and destroying one".
Ala Sabadge, a senior member of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades (The Fatah's military wing, headed by Yasser Arafat ) emphasized that "Time and time again we have succeeded in overcoming the enemy. Men, women and children alike stand at the gates of the camp, armed and ready for battle. We will send a clear message to Sharon (Israel PM) and his troops that any attempt to enter the camp will result in their death".
This was the strategy agreed on by the Palestinian militant leaders of the Jenin refugee camp before the anticipated battle in Jenin.
The terrorist organizations involved in the planning were: The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades- the military wing of the Fatah; The Jerusalem companies-terror wing of the Islamic Jihad; The Az Al-din Al- Qassam brigades-terror wing of Hamas; Abu Ali Mustafah, terror wing of the Popular front for the Liberation of Palestine; The National Resistance Brigades and the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
These terrorist organizations assembled (the night of the IDF's incursion, April 2002) in the camp's main square. They paraded through the streets, and hundreds of children who joined them in their march, chanted "our stance, our fight to victory or to death, for the will of Allah".
Arafat and the Palestinian Children of Jihad
The following cartoon - published on October 24, 2000 in the Israeli newspaper "Ma'ariv" - illustrates the macabre way Arafat & his troops play with the lives of Palestinian children.
The inscription on the locomotive [Jihad] means "Sacred War", in Arabic!!!
P.S. Please bear in mind that the riots you see on TV, where Palestinian children confront the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), do not take place in towns but rather on the outskirts or at the borders between the Gaza strip and Israel. The Israeli army is positioned neither in Gaza nor in any Arab towns, places that Israel surrendered to the PLO according to the Oslo accords. The 'Tanzim' - the informal armed troops of Arafat - bring these children there in an organized manner. These "innocent" children attack the Israeli soldiers not only with stones but with deadly arms such as Molotov cocktails and handguns as well. (Where, the hell, do they get these weapons from)? Bear in mind and watch carefully!!!
Israel to UN: Keep Palestinians from using kids as shields
By Herb Keinon, THE JERUSALEM POST, Wednesday, Nov 8, 2000
United Nations Human Rights High Commissioner Mary Robinson is to begin a week-long visit to the area today, with Foreign Ministry officials saying they will present a strong case to her about the Palestinian's "cynical" use of children as human shields in the recent riots.
Foreign Ministry legal adviser Alan Baker said the use of children in the violence constitutes no less than a "war crime," and cites various international conventions to back up his position. Various international treaties, Baker says, set the age of 15 as minimum age for a child to participate in hostilities, whether directly - through combat - or through other means.
According to Baker, the Palestinians are well aware of the IDF's firing procedures: tear gas and water hoses against rock throwers, rubber bullets against firebomb throwers, and live fire against gunmen.
Prime Minister Ehud Barak explained that the Palestinians are placing the stonethrowers in the front lines, followed by the fire-bomb hurlers and then the snipers. In some cases, he said, some of the Palestinian youths killed during the clashes have actually been shot from behind.
The Palestinian Authority planned this war very well.
The picture is from the beggining of the fight, when everything was still organized.
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"Chairman Yasser Arafat, who is ruthlessly encouraging the involvement of children in the violence, calls them 'the Generals of the rocks.' He would have the world believe that Israel, with its guns and helicopters, is waging a war against 10-year-olds with small stones," Lancry wrote. "In truth, however, the children... are used as human shields for the gunmen, bomb throwers, and lynch mobs whose faces have been totally obscured and invisible to the media."
The message seems to be getting through, at least at a declarative level.
Yesterday, PA Information Minister Yasser Abed Rabbo said, "There has been an overwhelming agreement among Palestinian factions to carry out a public-awareness campaign to prevent those children under 16 years old from taking part in these demonstrations." According to Abed Rabbo, the children are not knowingly being used as cannon fodder, but rather take part in the protests as a genuine expression of pain and grievance.
The problem, Baker says, is that children at that age are incapable of making the kind of logical decisions regarding whether to place themselves in life-threatening situations, and are in need of parental guidance and authority to protect them.
Regarding Robinson's visit, Mordechai Yedid, deputy director-general of the Foreign Ministry's UN and International Organizations division, said Israel will receive her as the head of the UN's Commission on Human Rights, but not as part of a human rights inquiry commission the body set up last month after adopting a one-sided resolution condemning Israel for "war crimes" and "crimes against humanity" in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Israel, said Yedid, has informed Robinson that it will not cooperate with the body, or in any way assist it in implementing the resolution.
During her two-day visit, Robinson will meet with Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben-Ami, Justice Minister Yossi Beilin, and Supreme Court President Aharon Barak. A meeting with Prime Minister Ehud Barak is still in the works.
She is scheduled to go to the Palestinian Authority on Friday, where she is slated to meet Arafat and will surely be flooded with numerous allegations of Israeli human rights violations.
Robinson is a former president of Ireland and is seen as a possible candidate in the race to succeed Kofi Annan when his term as UN secretary-general expires in two years.
Endangerment of Palestinian Children (13.10.2000)
Dougles J. Feith*
"There is nothing in the world sadder than the death of children. The pictures of dead young Palestinians and Israelis that we see day after day on television outrage the sense of decency of all good people. But it is precisely when confronted with such horrors that we should strive for intellectual and moral clarity.
The Palestinian Authority is using children cynically, systematically and unforgivably as pawns &Mac246; expendable tokens &Mac246; in an immoral war to demoralize and otherwise damage Israel. The Palestinian Authority has an army of around 40,000 men. These so-called security forces were established under the Oslo Process and armed by the grace of Israel. They were supposed to suppress Palestinian violence against Israel. Instead, they aggravate it and even perpetrate it themselves.
For example, it is their practice to position themselves so that children throwing stones to provoke fire fights stand between lines of Israeli and Palestinian armed forces. This ensures that the young stone throwers will face injury and death within view of various video cameras.
The exploitation of youngsters in this manner is barbarity of the lowest order. It is a form of child sacrifice for which the Palestinian Authority deserves unequivocal denunciation. This terrible practice continues only because it is repaid so lavishly by journalists, diplomats and others in the form of denunciations of Israel. Its essential purpose is to cloud the moral issue: to make Israeli victims of aggression look like victimizers.
If condemnations were directed properly &Mac246; at the Palestinian Authority rather than the Israeli Defense Forces &Mac246; the practice would cease and the children would be spared such exploitation.
If your heart goes out to these children, as it should, you should be ready to make a moral judgment and take a public stand, renouncing the rhetoric of moral equivalency and assigning responsibility where it belongs &Mac246; to Yasser Arafat and his lieutenants. In such a situation, this is not unconstructive finger-pointing. On the contrary, it is the moral response of decent people who oppose the purposeful endangerment of children."
* Mr. Feith served in the Reagan administration as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense and as a Middle East Specialist on the White House National Security Council staff.
Lesson One: Hatred
By David A. Harris, THE WASHINGTON TIMES, Wednesday, Jan 12, 2000
The following report from Independent Media Review and Analysis (IMRA) reviews the Palestinian Authority's exploitation of children in clashes with Israeli soldiers.
Since violent Palestinian-Israeli clashes exploded in late September, few international human rights advocates have asked why there have been so many casualties among children and youth - more than 60 Palestinian children have lost their lives - and how it even came about that scores of children were engaged in this conflict.
The executive director of UNICEF, Carol Bellamy, addressing the U.N. Commission on Human Rights weeks ago, called on the Palestinian Authority "to take energetic measures to discourage those underage from participating in any violent action because such action places them at risk."
In contrast, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson, after visiting Israel and the Palestinian Authority last month, declared that any suggestion of Palestinians deliberately using their children in the conflict was simply racist.
As recently as last year, a U.N. Security Council resolution condemned the recruitment and use of children in armed conflict. Similar U.N. measures include the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which condemns the recruitment of children under 15 in armed conflicts. The Fourth Geneva Convention strictly forbids the use of civilians, including children, as shields.
But the international community has been content to blame the current tragedy exclusively on Israel's allegedly excessive and wanton use of force, ignoring a pattern of Palestinian leaders encouraging children to participate and religious leaders glorifying the "martyrdom" of the youngest members of that society.
Palestinian use of children in this context stands in sharp contrast to another fierce test of political will: In the massive Belgrade demonstrations last October calling for Slobodan Milosevic's ouster, virtually no children could be seen on the streets. Serbian parents and opposition leaders knew there was a high probability of violence and responsibly kept their children out of harm's way.
But when it comes to children in Gaza and the West Bank, the Palestinian Authority seems to adhere -and be held - to a different standard.
How else can one comprehend how the European Union turns a blind eye to the contents of newly introduced textbooks in Palestinian-controlled elementary schools that make no mention of Israel on maps of "Palestine" - a curriculum developed with the financial assistance of the EU?
Instead of being educated from an early age towards becoming open-minded citizens of a future Palestinian state living side by side in peaceful coexistence with Israel - the only realistic outcome of the conflict - Palestinian children are being taught the lessons of hate and the methods of war.
Hatred is reinforced not only in schools, but also during vacation when, for example, tens of thousands of Palestinian children attend camps run by Yasser Arafat's Fatah organization to engage in weapons instruction and such lessons as how to kidnap an Israeli soldier.
Moreover, the Mufti of Jerusalem, the most influential Islamic cleric appointed by the Palestinian Authority, has stated that "the younger the martyr, the greater and the more I respect him." Of the mothers of these children, the Mufti observed that "they willingly sacrifice their offspring for the sake of freedom. It is a great display of the power of belief. The mother is a participant in the great reward of the Jihad to liberate Al-Aksa."
With this kind of political and religious leadership, is it any wonder that a 12-year-old Palestinian boy would tell a reporter from the Times of London that he would be happy never to see his adult years?
"I want to die as a martyr. I will go straight to paradise if I do that," said the impressionable youth, whose schooling has taken place entirely during a period in which Israeli and Palestinian leaders engaged in peacemaking.
Or, one might consider the Palestinian father, with a hand on the shoulder of his son, telling CNN that he would be satisfied if his child died defending Palestine. Or the Palestinian women in Gaza asserting that they must bear more children to replace others of their offspring who may become "martyrs."
Contrary to widely held perceptions in the West that today's conflict is essentially a reprise of the Palestinian uprising of the late 1980s and early 1990s, the realities in the West Bank and Gaza have changed substantially.
Palestinians control their major population centers - indeed, more than 95 percent of Palestinian areas formerly administered by Israelis. Thus, those who wish to attack - and send their children to attack - Israelis must first find them, not down the block, but outside Palestinian towns.
And, though the children may be carrying stones, Palestinian adults armed with semiautomatic rifles and other weapons have not hesitated to open fire on Israelis with intent to kill even while children are sent ahead of them into harm's way.
"What kind of independence is built on the blood of children while the leaders are safe and so are their children and grandchildren?" asked an Arab journalist writing in the London-based Arab newspaper, Al-Sharq Al-Awsat.
Why are so many Palestinian children dying? It is surely overdue for the international community to pose that question not just to Israel but to the Palestinian Authority as well.
Hamas Martyr's Memorial Hosted By PA School
In a speech delivered by phone to a Hamas gathering that was convened last Friday in the Palestinian Authority Al-'Adawiya High-school in Tulkarm, Head of the Hamas Politibureau, Khaled Mash'al, stated:
"Hamas has tens of martyrs who are willing to carry out attacks against Israeli targets. An operation of such Martyrs exceeds that of Arab armies who fought the Hebrew state. The importance of the weapon of such martyrs is no less than the importance of nuclear weapons."
"These initiatives and proposals [Mitchel's and Tenet's] are only meant to save Tel-Aviv and its Premier Sharon, after the rope of these Martyrs has tightened on his neck. They are only meant to deal with Israel's security, not with the Palestinian people's rights."
"The ceasefire that was declared [by Arafat] is not accepted by Hamas neither in terms of principles nor considering the reality. In terms of principles what happens in the occupied territories is not [a clash] between two armies and therefore the principle of ceasefire does not apply to it. Also, it is not mutual violence. Rather, it is legitimate activity of the Palestinian people to defend itself against the aggression of the occupation."
"Realistically, the Intifada continues and will continue. It did not stop because there is a consensus amongst the Palestinian people on all its factions to endorse the option of struggle and Intifada until all of the goals of the Palestinian people are achieved [namely]: the liberation of the land, and the expulsion of the occupation."
"The martyrs of Hamas are ready to carry out their duty and Sharon has no where to hide but to go."(1)
The PA organ Al-Hayat Al-Jadida published an invitation to join the gathering. The invitation mentioned that the gathering is convened to commemorate and honor the two martyrs of the Al-Qassam Brigades, Ahmad Umar Alayan and Mahmoud Ahmad Marmash. The invitation specified the location of the gathering in the PA high-school.(2)
Little children holding weapons participated in the gathering as well as future suicide bombers with their white garments and bandanas. Hamas activists distributed amongst the participants at the gathering posters of the last 10 martyrs in suicide operations.
Endnotes:
(1) Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, June 24, 2001.
(2) Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, June 21, 2001.
Palestinian Playground or Battlefield?
by Itamar Marcus and Ruthie Blum, Palestinian Media Watch
During the past 15 months, many Palestinian children have been caught in cross fires, resulting in Israel suffering worldwide condemnation. This photograph in a Palestinian daily captures what Israeli soldiers have maintained all along - that young children are regularly positioned in the vicinity of Palestinian snipers. This positioning turns the kids into targets for flying bullets and into ammunition for Palestinian propaganda.
Palestinian Ministry of Information Director-General: We are responsible for the deaths of the five boys (28.11.01)
In his daily column in the Palestinian Authority newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadida,(1) Palestinian Ministry of Information Director-General Hassan Al-Kashef discussed the deaths of five Palestinian schoolboys in Khan Yunis on November 22, 2001. In the article, he called for the establishment of a Palestinian investigative committee to examine the circumstances surrounding the deaths. The following are excerpts from his article:
"Whatever the type or source of the deadly device that caused the deaths of five of our children in Khan Yunis yesterday morning, it is we who bear the responsibility for the deaths of these innocent children. Yes, we and we alone bear this responsibility. Cries of grief and anguish and the announcements expressing mourning over the deaths of the martyred children are insufficient."
"Whether or not the deadly device was an Israeli shell left over from a previous act of aggression, the presence of this shell and other objects in our territory constitutes negligence and carelessness on the part of the many Palestinian bodies responsible for securing the lives of civilians."
"There is no way to avoid God's will. But the responsibility remains, and it cries out to us, demanding that the relevant military and civilian bodies immediately do their duty - first and foremost clearing the Palestinian areas of confrontation. If we do not organize campaigns to clear these areas of these devices of death, we will lose our children and other civilians, and our losses will be for naught because of our neglect and [because we are] not doing what we must do."
"The government of Israel bears the responsibility for our deaths and suffering no matter what. Nevertheless, the minimum required [of us] is to be exacting in this matter, to safeguard our credibility..."
"Before the martyred children, we lost others in distressing incidents. Many unnecessary accidents are caused by suspicious objects and bring about the deaths of civilians; even more tragic accidents have caused explosions in homes, and the deaths of young people and civilians, who were turned into shredded corpses. All these only increase our responsibility."
"We demand the [establishment] of an investigative committee that will examine the deaths of our five children. The truth must be revealed to the public. There is no way out of placing the facts before us. Society should not view negatively the acknowledgement of negligence, the taking of responsibility, and demands that those who were negligent be made accountable. We call for the organization of a volunteer campaign by the NGOs, the Islamic National Action Committees, [and] the media, particularly television, to raise awareness of the risks [posed by] unexploded shells or ordnance left [in the field], and of the need to immediately report suspicious objects or ordnance..."
"For the sake of saving the lives of its members, the Palestinian family is called upon to arouse the attention of its children and relatives, and to warn them. It is also called upon to follow them and supervise [them]..."
"The lives of our children are the responsibility of us all, as a society, as a family, as the media, as security or educational bodies, and as groups, organizations, associations, and many other well-known bodies that are of little use. This obligation is not limited to merely expressing condolences. May [Allah] have mercy on us, and on you."
Endnotes: (1) Al-Hayat Al-Jadida (Palestinian Authority), November 23, 2001.
The Official PA Daily Newspaper Condemns Parents who Forbid Their Children to Join the Riots
PMW Special Report - NOVEMBER 7, 2000
Hafez Bargutti, editor-in-chief of the Palestinian authority official daily newspaper, Al Hayyat Al Jedida writes in an editorial of a fifth column in Palestinian society, those who would deter the youth from throwing stones at Israeli soldiers, even parents who forbid their children from doing so. He classifies this as one of the most severe transgressions, and hopes that the Palestinians will be wise enough to reckon with these offenders, come their time. The following is the text from the editorial:
...I was hurt by a letter from an injured [rioter] in one of the hospitals where he mentioned that a nurse said "anyone who throws rocks should go to hell!" And I was hurt by several fathers that forbid their older children to participate in the processions, while this is their right. But when anyone of these [fathers] say [to their sons] 'Don't go, and whoever dies is a carcass, well then this is one of the most severe transgressions. Furthermore we are hurt by some who think they are big but are in fact small, who exploit an opportunity to harm the warriors and to mock them. A passive civilian, a passive senior ranking individual, or a lazy official may disregard their duty, but it is forbidden for them to humiliate the warriors or to mock the wounded or to conjure up plots against the field-active generation commanding the Intifada. These destructive, abominable [individuals] harm us more than the bullets of the occupation, because they constitute a fifth column. Our nation must learn a lesson and take them to reckoning later on." [Al Hayat-Al Jadida, 27 October 2000]
Bargutti could not have penned such a piece if Arafat had instructed to calm the masses down.
Leading article
THURSDAY MARCH 15 2001
Protests at last from the weak who protect the strong
Stone-throwing, flag-waving Palestinian youths ripped through the town of Ramallah yesterday in the first of two 'days of rage' declared by Yassir Arafat's Fatah organisation. It will have been no trouble to recruit this rent-a-mob; there is rage to spare, after nearly six months of futile battling against Israeli occupation. But rage, the most nihilistic of impulses, has done nothing but harm to Palestinians.
A few powerless people, as they mourn children killed in crossfire or pushed, like human shields, ahead of rioters attacking Israeli troops, are beginning to whisper the truth ' that they are being deliberately exposed to danger and death, exploited by their own side's gunmen. As The Times reported yesterday from El Bireh, the Palestinian residential area where people's flats are daily used by snipers attacking a nearby Jewish settlement, locals have appealed to the gunmen not to expose their families to returning fire. For response, they get official banners acclaiming their dead infants as martyrs. They too hate Israel. But they do not want to be martyrs to an unending, unwinnable confrontation. They want to be left alone.
These grieving voices should be heard, by their own leaders and by others. They are ignored. The European Union has had plenty to say about the damage inflicted by Israel's economic blockade and military roadblocks in the West Bank; in Jerusalem yesterday, that was also Chris Patten's theme. But foreign leaders limply shrink from condemning the cynicism with which various Palestinian factional leaders, who themselves are in no firing line, have played upon popular fears and frustration.
From Hamas and Fatah's increasingly militant Tanzim militia leaders, both out to destroy any chance of negotiated cohabitation in this wracked land, each Palestinian death is a weapon of war. But even Hanan Ashrawi, a Palestinian legislator who was once a moderate, has signed up to the politics of hate. This week she circulated an incendiary 'open letter' purporting to be from Ariel Sharon, the Israeli Prime Minister. 'To every man, woman and child in the Palestinian territories', it said, 'you are my target; you will be made to suffer; and you shall pay for the original crime of being a Palestinian.' This crude forgery is black propaganda and bad satire. What good can Ms Ashrawi think to do by inciting the most violent to fresh extremes' Six months after it started, the 'al-Aqsa intifada' has presented Palestinians with a grim set of accounts. Death has claimed at least 345 Palestinians, 13 Israeli Arabs and 65 other Israelis; hundreds more have been maimed. The Palestinian central bank calculates that economic activity, already feeble, has halved. In some areas it is down by 80 per cent. Tourism, which could be a big earner, is for obvious reasons only a memory now, bringing in a mere 7 per cent of what it made before. Trade is ruined. More than 160,000 Palestinians cannot travel to their jobs in Israel.
But such statistics do not reveal a more corrosive and potentially lasting evil, the brutalisation of children of both sexes who are trained and indoctrinated at terrorist boot camps before being used as expendable cover for gunmen. 'Closure does not frighten us', shouted protesters yesterday. It should. Civilians are paying an unendurable price ' children first. Tense Israeli troops have too often shot before asking questions; but the harsher truth is that those children should be kept far from trouble, not pushed towards it.
At his first full Cabinet this week, Mr Sharon promised to ease restrictions on most Palestinians and to punish only those responsible for violence. That must be right. It is easier said than done, certainly while Mr Arafat sticks to the official Fatah line that all Israel understands is violence. In the coming fortnight, violence is likely to worsen, ratcheted up in advance of the March 27 Arab summit in Jordan. There are risks for Israel in lifting restrictions around towns such as Bethlehem and Hebron at a time when Fatah is calling on Arabs to join 'the beginning of war' and Saddam Hussein is training thousands of volunteers to send. Israel must maintain its vigilance so long as Mr Arafat scorns the compromises that would make for a better, freer Palestine.
(Sunday Times)
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