-Caveat Lector- http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,3-2001280629,00.html THE LONDON TIMES MONDAY AUGUST 13 2001 Sharon vows to keep his grip on Jerusalem FROM RICHARD BEESTON IN JERUSALEM ARIEL SHARON, the Israeli Prime Minister, vowed yesterday that he would never allow the Palestinian Authority to re-establish itself in Jerusalem and declared that key properties seized by Israeli forces in the Arab half of the city would remain under Israeli control indefinitely. He was speaking as another suicide bomber struck in a caf� in the coastal town of Kiryat Motzkin, injuring 15 people. In Jerusalem, Israeli troops seized the Palestinian telecommunications offices, adding to a list of ten official buildings now under their control. Mr Sharon said that he had ordered the operation to hit the Palestinians "in their soft underbelly". "(Yassir) Arafat (the Palestinian leader) needs to understand one simple thing: he is now dealing with a different type of people from those that he is used to encountering on our side," he told the Hebrew daily Yedioth Ahronoth, after he ordered the operation in retaliation for the killing of 15 people by a Palestinian suicide bomber on Thursday. "The offices in Orient House will not open again. Ever. We will not leave Abu Dis (an administrative area on the outskirts of Jerusalem). That is not an act from which one can step back." Orient House, a stone villa in the Arab half of the city, had become the most important symbol of Palestinian authority in Jerusalem and had been used as a de facto foreign ministry. The offices in Abu Dis controlled the rudimentary local government, which the Palestinians hoped would form the basis for their administrative capital in Jerusalem. Mr Sharon's action led to protests at the weekend when Palestinian demonstrators, demanding access to Orient House, clashed with scores of Israeli riot police, who have sealed off the area and taken up what seem to be permanent defensive positions. "Israel opened the battle for Jerusalem and we will resist this new aggression," Ahmed Qureja, a Palestinian parliamentarian, said near the occupied buildings. Israel justified its actions yesterday by claiming that it had recovered firearms, explosives and intelligence files, including photographs of Israeli police officers, and insisted that the offices were used to prepare attacks on Israeli targets. The Israelis said they were within their legal rights to occupy the properties since the Palestinians had broken their obligations under the Oslo agreement. Nevertheless, the wisdom of seizing the Palestinian properties has become the subject of a heated public debate in Israel, exposing serious cracks in Mr Sharon's coalition Government. Three ministers, including Shimon Peres, the Foreign Minister and the most important coalition partner, voted against the move but were overruled by more hawkish colleagues. "It's all a question of degree," Mr Peres was quoted as saying. "I would have entered Abu Dis, but not Orient House." Mr Peres said that Mr Sharon should adopt the kind of approach used by Britain in its dealing with Northern Ireland. "Sharon is going to have to learn something from the English," he said. "Even after the Irish blow up car bombs in Central London, they continue to talk to them. There is no other choice." Copyright 2001 Times Newspapers Ltd. This service is provided on Times Newspapers' standard terms and conditions. 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