Yasser Arafat told the leaders of Palestinian terror groups to kill more Israelis, according to Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz. Referring to a never-before publicized conversation between Arafat and the leaders of the terror groups in February 2001, Mofaz said last Friday that “the Palestinian plan was to cause a few thousand Israeli deaths within a number of months, so that Israel would give in” to Palestinian demands, according to the Israeli daily Ha’aretz.
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