The Secretary General warned that the Israeli refusal challenged the Security Council's authority.

Ms. Albright warned on Tuesday that the Israeli refusal to accept the American position might cause the United States "to re-examine our approach to the peace process."

Reports of a large-scale massacre were found to be untrue, a result of confusion resulting from the Israeli refusal to allow entry to outside observers, and/or Palestinian media manipulation.

The women were protesting the Israeli Army's refusal to let them enter Bethlehem to pray at Rachel's Tomb on the traditional memorial day for her death.

The P.L.O. leader, Yasir Arafat, has tacitly accepted the idea of a joint delegation as a way to get around an Israeli refusal to deal directly with his organization.

Israel's dream is that the United States will do the bombing for or in conjunction with it - one reason for the Israeli refusal to clarify its intentions.

Arabs are presented as if they are always simply reacting to Israeli refusal to accept their reasonable demands that the Jews just clear out of more territory because it does not really belong to them.

Later, Mr. Freij said he had not been threatened, and had decided not to pursue his plan because of Israeli refusal to deal with the Palestinians.

The US understands the Israeli refusal to take back refugees and hopes that this can be resolved by compensation and development aid for this whose cannot go back to their previous family homes.

As a group they have indicated no willingness to drop the longstanding Israeli refusal to negotiate with the Palestine Liberation Organization, even though the United States has now chosen to do so.