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>>>This makes no sense at all. If they offend the leaders of a UN group, how is it that any substitutes aren't gonna have an even stricter agenda to go by and bye (by the book, by the numbers, bye-bye Ariel). Watch out for this when "Foul" is cried because of the lack of leniency. A<>E<>R <<< }}}>Begin Israeli anger aimed at 'unfit' UN envoy By Ross Dunn, Herald Correspondent in Jerusalem April 22 2002 Israel yesterday launched unprecedented criticism against the United Nations special Middle East envoy, Terje Roed-Larsen, saying he should be considered persona non grata and was no longer fit to serve in the region. The unusually harsh language used against him came after he described conditions in the Jenin refugee camp after an Israeli Army incursion as "horrifying beyond belief". Mr Larsen is among three leading UN officials whom Israel says are biased and must be excluded from an inquiry into the army's military assault against Jenin. Israel has agree to co-operate with the investigation, but officials in Jerusalem said it must not include Mr Roed-Larsen, the UN Human Rights high commissioner, Mary Robinson, and Peter Hansen, who as director-general of the UN Relief and Works Agency is responsible for the Palestinian refugee camps. Israeli officials say all three have strongly denounced the army's actions in recent days, thereby making them incapable of presenting a fair picture. Mr Roed-Larsen, who during a tour of Jenin last week spoke out against the Israeli Army's operations, came in for heavy criticism during a meeting of the Israeli cabinet. The Attorney-General, Elyakim Rubinstein, said the Government should consider declaring him persona non grata. Mr Rubinstein said he had reviewed Mr Larsen's recent statements and described them as lies. Some cabinet ministers were similarly outraged. "Larsen has disqualified himself from continuing as an honest broker between Israel and the Palestinians," said the Trade and Industry Minister, Dalia Itzik. The Defence Minister, Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, said Mr Roed-Larsen was "guilty of incitement against Israel". It is not only UN officials who are viewing what happened in Jenin with alarm. The US Under-Secretary of State, William Burns, toured the camp at the weekend and said the situation there was a "terrible human tragedy". "It is obvious that what happened in the Jenin camp has caused enormous human suffering for thousands of Palestinian civilians," Mr Burns said. But he and Mr Larsen have refused to say whether they had seen any evidence to support the claims of the Palestinian leadership that a massacre had happened. The Palestinian chief negotiator, Saeb Erekat, said he hoped the UN mission would lead to an international force to protect Palestinians. "We hope that the first stop after the panel submits this report is the creation of an international force," he said. Also yesterday, Israeli troops began withdrawing from some parts of the West Bank, while stepping up operations in other areas of the territory. Tanks fired into the air as they began pulling out of Nablus, the largest Palestinian self-rule area in the West Bank. The soldiers also withdrew from most parts of Ramallah but continued to surround the city headquarters of the Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat. Security officials were discussing the possibility of storming the compound. The action would be designed to arrest four Palestinians holed up inside Mr Arafat's offices who are wanted over the murder of the Israeli tourism minister, Rehavam Ze'evi, last October. And an elite Israeli commando unit raided the Qalandiyah refugee camp in Ramallah, searching for what the army referred to as wanted Palestinian terrorists. 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