Israelis want their government to crack down further on Yasser Arafat, a new poll said. Eighteen percent of respondents to the poll, conducted Monday before this week’s twin terrorist attacks, want Arafat killed. Twenty percent of respondents want him sent into exile, 27 percent favor increasing his isolation at his Ramallah compound and 20 percent want to maintain the status quo.
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