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By Atul Aneja
MANAMA, APRIL 25. Israel has backed off from its threat of assassinating the top Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat, amid reports that Tel Aviv was working on a plan to expel him to the Gaza Strip. Israel's Vice-Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, said there was no imminent plan to kill Mr. Arafat. "Prime Minister Ariel Sharon does not intend to put something into action this very week, or today or tomorrow," he told Israel's Army Radio on Sunday. "He set out a position in principle regarding Arafat and the immunity he (Mr. Arafat) thought he enjoyed." Mr. Sharon had said on Friday that he was walking out of an earlier pledge given to the United States that Israel would not harm Mr. Arafat. The Israeli daily Maariv reported today that Mr. Sharon's Government was seriously considering Mr. Arafat's expulsion from his headquarters in Ramallah to the Gaza Strip. According to a report in the newspaper, Mr. Arafat's expulsion was being favoured because his presence in Gaza was likely to undermine the extremist Palestinian group, Hamas.
The popular appeal of hardline Hamas has risen appreciably after the recent
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