The evidence that Mr Arafat,74, is at the apex of a terrorist infrastructure is being used by some Israeli ministers to argue that he should be killed in an air strike, as Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the spiritual leader of the Hamas terror group, was last week.

• 一些以色列部长们正利用有关阿拉法特是一个恐怖组织最高头目的证据，主张以色列应该实施一次空袭，就像炸死‘马斯’精神领袖亚辛一样也将他干掉。