1.   A senior U.S. official terms the Israeli ploy a crude drama but adds that it shows the brinksmanship that can be expected during the endgame of the tortuous negotiations.

2.   Palestinian officials dismissed the announcement as an Israeli ploy and called for an international summit that would decide how to implement the Mitchell recommendations.

3.   Palestinians have called that an Israeli ploy to avoid going ahead with any pullbacks.

4.   Palestinian Cabinet Minister Saeb Erekat ridiculed the plan as an Israeli ploy to regain complete control of the West Bank.

5.   Radical Palestinian factions on Thursday dismissed the general elections held last week in Palestinian self-rule areas as little more than an Israeli ploy.

6.   Palestinians have described the conditions as an Israeli ploy to avoid any pullbacks.

7.   The Palestinians see this as an Israeli ploy to delay pending transfers of West Bank areas to Palestinian control.

8.   The Palestinians swiftly denounced the document as an Israeli ploy to avoid proceeding with already agreed-to pullbacks.

9.   The Palestinians swiftly denounced the document as an Israeli ploy to get out of proceeding with already agreed-to troop pullbacks.

10.   The Palestinians charge that the seven-day requirement is impossible to fulfill and amounts to an Israeli ploy to avoid negotiations.