JERUSALEM [MENL] -- Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is urging Israel to hold tight for the next few days as the spate of Palestinian bombings continues to rock the Jewish state.

Aides to Sharon said the prime minister is determined not to respond to the Palestinian escalation in attacks in both Israel as well as in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The aides said the spate of Palestinian bombings was timed for the current Arab League summit in Amman as well as the United Nations Security Council session in New York.

"In another 2-3 days, we will see another policy," Sharon said. "I know how to deal with this and when to deal with this."

The aides said Sharon is waiting for two events: the end of the Arab League summit, expected to conclude on Thursday, and Land Day, to be held over the weekend. Land Day is the Palestinian commemoration of the 1976 demonstrations by Israeli Arabs in which six of them were killed.

By next week, the aides said, Sharon will launch what they pledge will be a new security policy. This policy will target organizers of the Palestinian insurgency.