Yasser Arafat lacks the will to fight Islamic extremism, the head of Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency said. In a rare public speech Sunday, Ephraim Halevy said the Palestinian leader’s international standing had been hurt by his failure to show the political will to stand up to terrorists in areas under his control.
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