and Ramallah, and grenade attacks near Rafah and Neveh Dekalim. Three Israelis, including a father and his three-year old son, were wounded.

Apparently, the Palestinians had no trouble reading between the lines of Arafat's speech. They heard what he said on Sunday, but they also heard what he did not say. He did not call for an end to the intifada, and he did not mention Hamas or Islamic Jihad. Instead, he mouthed a few platitudes, hoping this would remove some of the American pressure on him to truly clamp down on terror.

Arafat's credibility among Israelis is non-existent, and for that he has only himself to blame.

But the time for words is long past. Eight years ago, the government of Israel put its faith in Arafat's words, but thosewords only amounted to hundreds of additional Jewish funerals. Arafat's credibility among Israelis is non-existent, and for that he has only himself to blame.

Astonishingly, however, there are still foreign leaders who are naive enough to believe Arafat's declarations. On Monday, a parade of European diplomats paid him a visit in Ramallah, complimenting his speech and fawning over him like devoted fans greeting a television star. With all the kissing and hugging going on, it looked more like an episode of The Dating Game than a diplomatic gathering.

But if Arafat thinks that a batch of European sycophants will rescue his political career, he is gravely mistaken. The people of Israel are tired of being murdered on a daily basis, and they are no longer willing to tolerate the fiction