Yasser Arafat wants to reach a mutual truce with Israel, his national security adviser said Tuesday, but Israeli officials said the government would reject the offer outright. Brig. Gen. Jibril Rajoub, Arafat's national security adviser, said under a ceasefire, the Palestinians would halt all acts of violence in return for an Israeli agreement to end its military operations, including lifting blockades on Palestinian towns and villages. "We are ready to sit and we are ready to declare a general ceasefire, but there needs to be something mutual because without mutuality nothing will be achieved," Rajoub told Israel Radio. Rajoub did...