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SRAELI FOREIGN MINISTER Silvan Shalom on Monday sought to soften Sunday’s statement by Vice Premier Ehud Olmert that “killing (Arafat) is ... one of the options” under consideration to effect Israel’s decision to “remove” the Palestinian leader.
“It (killing Arafat) is not the official policy of the Israeli government,” Shalom told reporters Monday. “It was never before, and we don’t speak about any killing, we didn’t speak about it before, and we don’t speak about it today.”
But Olmert’s statement gave new momentum to the Palestinian demand for speedy U.N. action on a resolution demanding that Israel refrain from taking any action against Arafat. The Security Council scheduled an open meeting Monday to discuss the situation in the Middle East and consider the Palestinian resolution.

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