ISRAELI MINISTER SAYS PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY COULD 'DISINTEGRATE'
Tel Aviv, 22 May (AKI) - Israeli defence minister Amir Peretz warned Tuesday that the Palestinian Authority is on the verge of disintegrating. "If the international community does not stop the terror organizations, we will find ourselves in a situation where the Palestinian Authority will completely disintegrate," Peretz said at a newsconference with European Union policy chief Javier Solana. The Israeli defence minister also asked the EU to renew its sanctions on the Palestinian Authority an dnot to relase frozen funds.
Peretz maintained that, "all the goodwill demonstrated when building the Palestinian unity governement must now end. "The unity government is not functioning in today's anarchic situation in the Gaza Strip, but instead is legitimizing murder in Gaza and the continuation of rocket firing at Israel. The positive atmoshpere that was once expressed by this government is now overshadowed by the wave of violence that they themselves began."
The defense minister said that Israel had done all it could to maintain the cease-fire. "We were blamed for showing too much restraint, but until Hamas was not involved - until it wasn't clear what part the unity government had [in the firing] - we did everything to show restraint. Today, Hamas is the one leading the violence, defending the firing, and we do not intend to stop, unless the firing ceases."
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Tuesday, May 22, 2007
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