October 21, 1997

In Gaza, Arafat, Israeli DM Mordechai discuss improving security cooperation, try to finalize accord on Rafah airport, but reach no  agmts. U.S. special envoy Ross observes. (NYT, WP, WT 10/22)

Unaware that a live microphone is broadcasting his statements, PM Netanyahu tells Rabbi Yitzhak Kadouri that the "people on the left have forgotten what it means to be Jewish. They think that if we . . . give [the Arabs] part of the land . . . they will look after us. Who has ever heard anything like it?" (MM 10/22; WP 10/23; MM 10/28)