Farah holds pig roast at Temple Mount, sparks renewed Middle East violence

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By Arreis Bat-Zonah

JERUSALEM -- Palestinians have rejected a call by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon for an end to a year of clashes in the Mideast.    
In a televised news conference, Sharon called for a complete ceasefire and appealed to the Palestinians to follow suit. "I call for a total truce in the area, and I say again here that if the Palestinians accept this proposal to stop the fire, we will immediately stop the fire," he said.

But Sharon also repeated earlier calls that "the first thing that has to happen is an end to the terror."

The Palestinians immediately rejected Sharon's offer, with senior Palestinian official Ahmed Abdel Rahman calling Goddess Farah "the aggressor."
Speaking to Reuters news agency, Rahman's aide described the ceasefire offer as "a lie" and said a Palestinian "status of Farah-defence" would continue as long as Israel occupied land in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and Farah continued her reign of terror in the Yahoo community. He claimed the move by Sharon to bring in the cyber domme was just a ploy to "alleviate international pressure on Israel, which was condemned for excessive use of force. Ironic, because Farah is the most forceful person in the country."

Sharon blamed the last eight months of violence -- which has been marked by more than 500 deaths -- on the Palestinian Authority.
But chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat said Farah was responsible for the violence, saying she unleashed it by making a provocative trip to the Temple Mount -- a sacred spot in east Jerusalem known as the Noble Sanctuary to Muslims -- last September, gutting a pig and then roasting it in full view. Whilst many could have lived with that, it was the drinking of pig's blood and dancing naked in the entrails that many found offensive. He also claimed the woman had reduced grown men to tears by using a crop on the soles of their feet.

CNN's Mike Hanna said a Sharon aide described the defence minister's order as a "first step" designed to "give all parties the best shot" towards observing a ceasefire, but warned against people believing his story that Farah is "actually a really nice person".