| Jpost 5 July 2001 Netanyahu: Stop restraint, not Sharon By Gil Hoffman TIBERIAS (July 4) - Former prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu called on Prime Minister Ariel Sharon yesterday to end immediately his unilateral cease-fire and make Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat pay the price for continuing to encourage acts of terror. Speaking to reporters in Tiberias, Netanyahu said that the majority of people in the country want Sharon to adopt a more aggressive stance against the PA. Although he was highly critical of Sharon's security policies, he was careful to draw a fine line between criticizing the government's policies and attacking the prime minister himself. "There is no need to change the government, but there is an urgent necessity to change the government's policies - to end the policy of restraint," Netanyahu told reporters prior to a rally on behalf of the IDF's kidnapped and missing soldiers, held on the 25th anniversary of the Entebbe rescue, that was attended by more than 5,000 people. Netanyahu slammed Arafat for claiming that the seven-day cooling-off period that was supposed to begin after a halt to the violence had already been completed. The only seven-day periods that have ended, he said, are the shivas observed by the families of some 140 Israelis killed since the start of the intifada. "The time has come for the government to make a new assessment of the best way to combat terror," Netanyahu said. "The restraint policy can be good for a day or two, but not more than that. Arafat will decrease the violence only if he knows that he runs the risk of paying a price - the price of losing his job." Referring to Sharon's speech Monday about Israel lacking the spirit of Entebbe, Netanyahu - whose brother, Yoni, fell while commanding the mission - called upon the prime minister to take his own advice and show that Israel can act more forcefully against terror. Netanyahu advised Sharon that if he switches to a more active security policy he will receive the support of an overwhelming majority of the public and all of the MKs in the Likud. Asked if he is calling for full-scale war, Netanyahu said there is a lot of room between the government's unilateral cease-fire and escalating the conflict to a regional war. At the rally, Netanyahu also called on Sharon to send a clear message to Syrian President Bashar Assad to curb Hizbullah's aggression and give Israel information about the missing soldiers. "The solution to the complicated situation we find ourselves in [in the North] is not war against a lone terrorist," Netanyahu said. "We need to go to the main address of the person in charge of Hizbullah, and that is Syria and Iran. If we act in a different manner, with the full support of the public, our chances of achieving results and getting the kidnapped soldiers home from Lebanon are good." |
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