[nmh]

I'd be a tad suspect of this source:

IMRA, Independent Media Review and Analysis, was founded in 1992, by Drs. Aaron and Joseph Lerner, as an ongoing analysis of developments in Arab-Israeli relations. Awarded credentials by the Government of Israel as a news organization, IMRA provides an extensive digest of media, polls and significant interviews and events.

The site includes:

Israeli public opinion polls performed by Gallup
Palestinian public opinion surveys conducted by the Palestinian research centers
Summaries of news reports from the Israeli and Arab press and Arab broadcast media
Official Israeli and PNA statements
English translations of government reports and memoranda
Translations of important unofficial documents
Analysis of treaties and agreements
Reprints of IMRA's Op-Ed columns

This is an Israeli slanted site. Israel does its own thing. They'd be trilled to have the U.S. target Arafat for them.

[yonif]

Israel isn't asking anyone to target Arafat. Israel has its own means. This is also being quoted on Washington Times. The world needs to call the kettle black and treat Arafat as a terrorist.

[SJackson]

FYI, the source of the report is MENL, a Canadian newswire concentrating on the Middle East linked above, not IMRA. They just printed the story, like the Washington Times did. How anyone interprets this story as Israel asking the US to off Arafat is beyond me.