The New York Times · 3 May 2002

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Israel Says Palestinians Link Arafat to Terrorism

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which by treaty has limited power to govern Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. For his part, Mr.

Arafat, though pale and seemingly frail, appeared among his people this morning with his broad smile and characteristic ambiguity intact, speaking of a commitment to peace and lashing out at the Israeli government over its military offensive into Palestinian-controlled territory in the West Bank.

Israeli forces raided the West Bank cities of Tulkarm and Hebron today, the army said, arresting several Palestinian men. [Early Friday, the Israeli Army entered Nablus, destroying a three-story building and killing a Palestinian policeman, The Associated Press reported.

The Israeli military did not comment.] The Bush administration has called for a halt to such raids, but Israel says they are necessary for its defense. Palestinians say the raids are intended to blur and ultimately to erase negotiated boundaries. On a tour of Ramallah, Mr.

Arafat stopped in a hospital parking lot to pray over an improvised grave for Palestinians who died during the Israeli offensive here, and he viewed damage to the city. “Unbelievable, what has happened,” he said. The Israeli statement tonight came as Mr. Sharon was preparing to go to Washington for a meeting early next week with President Bush.

A senior political adviser said that Mr. Sharon planned to present “specific and detailed proposals” that “could include short-term territorial concessions,” provided that Palestinian violence completely halted. Mr.

Sharon has indicated that he is willing to consider steps to provide the Palestinians with “territorial contiguity,” that is, paths to move among the islands of territory now under their control without crossing Israeli-controlled land and army checkpoints. Mr. Sharon also plans to discuss with President Bush a possible regional summit meeting, the adviser said.

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Transcribed from the slide scan by a reader working off magnified crops, not by optical character recognition. The newspaper is printed on the page twice, in the photograph’s credit “Ruth Fremson/The New York Times” and at the foot of the locator map. There is no masthead and no folio on this page fragment; the date is derived from the caption’s statement that Yasir Arafat left his compound “yesterday”, from the “WASHINGTON, May 2” dateline on the complete article in the lower right of the same page, and from a bracketed late insert beginning “Early Friday” — 3 May 2002 was a Friday. The page carries two articles. The record transcribes the jump of “Israel Says Palestinians Link Arafat to Terrorism”, whose opening is on page A1 and is not in this deck, which is why the excerpt begins mid-sentence and why no byline is recorded. The second article on the page, “House and Senate Support Israel in Strong Resolutions” by Alison Mitchell, is not transcribed.

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