Israel’s attorney general said he is disappointed with the report on Mideast violence of a U.S.-led commission, particularly its call for a freeze on Israeli settlement construction. The Mitchell Commission’s resurrection of the settlement issue is “beside the point. It’s irrelevant,” Elyakim Rubenstein told the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations in New York. “The right thing to do is telling Arafat, ‘You’re not going to win by violence.’ “
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