Shalom says killing Arafat is not Israeli gov't policy

[Gimel]

Israel has not adopted a formal decision to kill Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat, Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom said Monday, in an apparent attempt to soften remarks made by Deputy
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that "killing is definitely one of the options" under consideration by the Israeli government.

"We are trying to eliminate all the heads of terror, and Arafat
is one of the heads of terror," Olmert told Israel Radio on
Sunday. "In my eyes, from a moral point of view, this is no
different from killing others who were involved in ... acts
of terror. It's only a practical question.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/340017.html