ISRAEL'S Prime Minister, Mr Benjamin Netanyahu, claimed yesterday that Syria Iran were to blame for Middle East terrorism, David Horovitz. He was after three Israeli soldiers killed in an ambush just inside the Israeli border with Jordan.
Israeli and Jordanian troops searched all day for the attackers, who crossed the Jordan river overnight and lay in wait for a routine Israeli patrol, shooting dead the soldiers as they passed.
The attackers believed to be members of Mr Ahmd Jibril's Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine General Command, a secular group that opposes Israeli Palestinian reconciliation were thought to have fled back into Jordanian territory. King Hussein of Jordan condemned the attack, the first such incursion in more than a year.
Siona Jenkins adds from Cairo: The US Secretary of State, Mr Warren Christopher, met President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt and the Palestinian leader, Mr Yasser Arafat, in Cairo yesterday for discussions intended to seek common ground between Israeli and Arab leaders.
But statements by the Secretary of State that the concept of land for peace was negotiable will do little to quell Arab fears that the US is unwilling to pressure Mr Netanyahu to meet Israel's commitments in the peace process.
"The United States has had the policy and continues to have the policy of `land for peace' but generalities do not produce peace agreements," Mr Christopher said.