Yasser Arafat’s incapacitation could be a chance for peace, Israel’s military intelligence chief said. “I think we have an opportunity here to end the current round of conflict that began in 2000,” Maj. Gen. Aharon Ze’evi-Farkash was quoted as telling the Cabinet on Sunday.
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