comes the [link|http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/09/15/mideast.arafat/index.html|(we didn't mean it) retraction].

Killing Arafat "is not the official policy of the Israeli government," Shalom said. "It was never before, and we don't speak about any killing, we didn't speak about it before, and we don't speak about it today."