Leader of the Israeli opposition Benjamin Netanyahu is interviewed on his views on an appropriate response to the Tel Aviv suicide bombing by Hamas.

Tel Aviv bomb:; e) C4N: (SNOW,JON) Benjamin Netanyahu intvw ENGLAND: London / ISRAEL: Jerusalem: INT Benjamin Netanyahu (Leader of Likud Israeli opposition) 2-WAY interview SOT - (On whether he placed blame on government for dealing with Yasser Arafat in first place) I think the whole conception that we would entrust our security and the battle against terrorism to Yasser Arafat and the PLO was preposterous from the start - Arafat has no inclination and has shown no capacity to fight the Hamas, they operate under his umbrella from what has become an effective terrorist haven in Gaza / there have been dozens and dozens of Israelis who have been murdered in the towns and cities of Israel, from murderers who came from Gaza / Arafat knows who they are, he hasn't lifted a finger, he hasn't captured one, punished one, extradited one, he's done nothing Q: SO ARE YOU EFFECTIVELY CALLING A HALT, THAT YOU SHOULD HALT THE PEACE PROCESS AND ROLL IT BACK - No I don't think we should halt the peace process, genuine peace is something we all want and something we support enthusiastically / the peace with Jordan, we think that's exactly the right thing we should do, the right direction of peace as with Tunisia, as with Morocco, as with those who want genuine peace with us Q: SO WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE, YOU WANT THE TROOPS BACK INTO THE GAZA STRIP FOR EXAMPLE - No, what I've suggested regarding Gaza is first of all put a closure to prevent an anomalous situation where we walked out, so we can't go in there, but they can come into our cities and our towns, 20,000 a day, with dozens of terrorists infiltrating along with these 20,000 workers / I think the first thing is to put a halt to that / I said that to Mr (Yitzhak) Rabin two days ago, he didn't take my advice, he's now taking it / after the horses have fled the barn, it's kind of late to shut the gates / but nevertheless that's the first thing that has to be done - The second thing is to correct the mistak...