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WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Peres tells Arafat: Your fate is in your hands By Herb Keinon JERUSALEM (December 6) - Two days after the cabinet declared the Palestinian Authority an "entity that supports terror," Foreign Minister Shimon Peres spoke twice by phone with Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat yesterday, telling him that in the next 12 hours Arafat can determine the government's relationship towards the PA. "Yasser Arafat called me and said to me that he wants to take things into his hands, but we don't let him," Peres told reporters in the Knesset after a Labor faction meeting. "I said, 'Listen, the matter is in your hands, and only your hands. In the next 12 hours you can determine the relationship to the PA. We have given you a list of 36 people who we believe are leading the terror, and I recommend very, very much that you put them in jail.'" A senior official in the Prime Minister's Office was quick to deny that comment was an ultimatum, or that IDF activity - which was very sparse yesterday - was called off to give Arafat yet another chance. "I don't know about any 12 hours," the official said. "There has been a lull in the military operation activity because of operational reasons, and to give Arafat time to start taking real steps." According to the official, if Israel sees Arafat has not begun arresting those on the list of 36, then "we will attack all those we feel are perpetuating terror, including the security groups close to Arafat." The official cited the weather as one of the "operational conditions" that has delayed military activity. According to Peres, Arafat said he could not make arrests, because the IDF activity made moving his forces impossible. "Regarding the movement of troops, I said I will look into it," Peres said. "I spoke to the prime minister, and told him that Arafat said he was unable to move forces. He said no, the forces will be able to move, and that is the answer I gave Arafat." According to diplomatic officials, another reason Arafat is using to explain why he has not arrested the leading terrorists Israel wants apprehended is concern Israel will then bomb the prisons where these men are held. This claim, repeated by Palestinian spokesmen several times yesterday, prompted a response by Minister without Portfolio Tzipi Livni, in charge of the government's information efforts, who issued a statement saying: "The Israeli government has declared in the past, and reiterates today, that Israel will not bomb prisons in which terrorists arrested by the PA are imprisoned." Livni also reiterated Israel has "no intention" of attacking Arafat personally. She said this message was relayed to the US. Diplomatic officials said yesterday the Palestinians are coming under unprecedented pressure from the US to take action against the terrorists, with the message being that, if they do not do so, the US will not do anything to rein in Sharon. According to US diplomatic sources, US envoy Anthony Zinni is slated to meet today with both Palestinian and Israeli officials. Although the embassy would not say whom Zinni will meet, it is expected that he will meet Arafat. Zinni, accompanied by US Ambassador Daniel Kurtzer, met last night with Sharon. The prime minister said he does not see any change in Arafat's actions, and the bombing yesterday morning in Jerusalem only proves this. Sharon said only through pressure on Arafat is it possible to convince him to make the strategic decision to abandon terror and fulfill his agreement to Israel under the various accords he has signed. Israel's actions are currently aimed at convincing Arafat that, if he does not take serious steps to stop terrorism, his rule will be endangered, and Israel will not hesitate any longer to topple the Palestinian Authority. Israel hopes Arafat - who has warned that acting against Hamas and Islamic Jihad would lead to civil war - will conclude that if he must choose between civil war or war with Israel, civil war is preferable. According to a statement issued by Sharon's office following his meeting with Zinni, Sharon said Israel is continuing its military actions, and Arafat must bring about complete quiet. Earlier in the day Sharon met with the Likud faction, and said he expects Arafat to take the following five steps: * The genuine arrest of terrorists and those who send them. "Up till now," Sharon said, "the arrests have been for show. Real arrests have not been carried out." * Dismantle the terror organizations. * Confiscate illegal arms and remove them from the PA. * Take real preventive acts against terror. * End the incitement. At this meeting, and in the shadow of a mini-coalition crisis triggered by the government's decision to label the PA an entity supporting terror, Sharon spoke of the importance of national unity. "At this time we need all the forces to work together," Sharon said. "There is a great value to the existence of a national unity government. There is no bigger prize for Arafat - who in my eyes is responsible for terror - then the break-up of the national unity government." *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. 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