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Mofaz defends raid to capture minister's assassins Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz said that no responsible government would allow assassins of a government minister to go free. He said it should have been clear to the Palestinian Authority that the killers of Rahavam Zeevi would not evade the long arm of Israel. The Jericho jail was summer camp and not a real prison, Mofaz told Kol Israel. He denied any connection between the raid in Jericho and the upcoming elections nor, he said, was there coordination with the British or Americans regarding planning when their monitors were leaving the prison site....

Mar. 15, 2006 3:08 | Updated Mar. 15, 2006 18:01 Olmert: Israel will try 'Jericho Six' By HERB KEINON AND JPOST.COM STAFF Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Wednesday that the six Palestinians arrested by the IDF in its Tuesday raid on a Jericho prison will be charged and tried by Israel. Five of the prisoners, including Popular Front of the Liberation of Palestinian head Ahmed Sa'adat, were found guilty in a Palestinian court of the 2001 assassination of Tourism Minister Rehavam Zeevi, and the sixth, Fuad Shubaki, was found guilty of smuggling weapons into the territories via the Karine...

'We call upon all American and British citizens to leave Palestinian territories immediately, otherwise they will be subject to kidnapping and other consequences," said Abu Qusai, a spokesman for the Aksa Martyrs Brigade. This laconic statement is an apt summary of the state of play in the global jihad against the West, four and a half years after 9/11. Following the recent "cartoon jihad," the latest excuse for Islamist violence and mayhem began yesterday, when the British government, on behalf of itself and the US, announced that monitors deployed by both nations in a Palestinian Authority prison to ensure that...

Aug. 3, 2004 12:21 | Updated Aug. 3, 2004 18:44 MI: Palestinian terror barrel is bottomless By NINA GILBERT Major-General Aharon Zeevi (Farkash), head of the IDF Intelligence branch Photo: Ariel Jerozolimski http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?ssbinary=true&cachecontrol=*%3A0%2C30%3A10+*%2F*%2F*&blobtable=JPImage&blobcol=urlimage&blobwhere=1088910686553&blobkey=id&blobheader=image/jpeg"> Avi Dichter, Head of the GSS (Shin Bet) Photo: Ariel Jerozolimski/Jerusalem PostA week after Shin Bet chief Avi Dichter said that "the Palestinian terrorism barrel has a bottom - and we can get to it", OC Intelligence Maj.-Gen Aharon Ze'evi (Farkash) informed the Knesset Tuesday that Palestinian terror against Israel "has no end and Israel cannot fight terror only through military means." Responding to a question by...

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Palestinians: alleged Ze'evi killers on trial in Arafat's Ramallah HQ By Amira Hass, Ha'aretz Correspondent Sources within Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat's besieged Ramallah compound told Ha'aretz on Monday that the trial had begun for the four Palestinians accused of murdering cabinet minister Rehavam Ze'evi. According to the sources, the trial began at 5:30 P.M. local time. The judges in the trial are three Palestinian officers holed up in the compound with Yasser Arafat. After the defendants told the court that they did not have legal representatives, the judges appointed members of the Palestinian police to act as their attorneys....