You claimed that for you, whole-hog international intervention is fine, as long as the "conquest" (bad translation, I know) is over. Whole-hog international intervention may have as one of its results the annulment of Israel as a sovereign state, and by itself is a contest of Israeli sovereignity.

I do ask anyone who's ever fought for National freedom: why? Why start an active revolt just because they only teach one dialect of the local language at schools, and it happens not to be your dialect, for example? Why is it completely obvious to everyone that "conquest" should be fought?

Sari Nusseibeh, the representative of the Palestinians in Jerusalem, said in a telephone interview that Mr. Arafat recognized that attacks like the one in Haifa on Sunday ``will lead to the point of undermining his own authority." But he said that Mr. Arafat ``is not in control" of those who carry them out. And while Mr. Arafat was trying to stop the violence, Dr. Nusseibeh said, he needed to demonstrate to his people that they would gain something from such actions.

such actions = trying to stop the violence

Mr. Arafat ``is not in control" of those who carry them out