We are not offering any cease-fire. The Islamic Jihad and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine also declared, overnight Monday, that they were not backing the cease-fire call. There is a cease-fire. This is a general cease-fire from our point of view. This is an attack on the Palestinian people.
Building has to stop in all the settlements.
Both sides have to honor the cease-fire. The occupation represents the biggest aggressive attacks against the Palestinians. And that was to continue with the Intifada. For Arafat, says Rubinstein, this includes popular resistance in the form of demonstrations and stone-throwing. But Rubinstein says there is a clear distinction between Fatah, which views attacks inside the West Bank and Gaza as a legitimate form of resistance, and Hamas and Islamic Jihad, whose members consider strikes inside the 1967 Green Line border as legitimate.