Massacre of 7 Denounced by Arab Leaders : Reaction: Furious Palestinian exile groups call for new attacks on Israel. Arafat asks for action by the U.N.

Arab leaders reacted with outrage to Sunday’s killing of seven Arab workers by a deranged Israeli, and furious Palestinian exile groups called for new attacks on Israel.

The shooting Sunday, blamed on an Israeli who had been dishonorably discharged from the army, set off riots in the Israeli-occupied territories.

Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, urged U.N. Security Council action to protect Palestinians from massacres of Arabs, an aide said.

In Kuwait, Arafat’s second-in-command, Salah Khalaf, told the official KUNA news agency, “Our Palestinian people and our guerrillas will take upon themselves to deliver a suitable reply to this Zionist atrocity.”

Egyptian Foreign Minister Esmat Abdel Meguid blamed Israel’s failure to move forward with the Middle East peace process for the killings.

In Tunis, Arab League Secretary General Chedli Klibi called the killings a barbaric act and called for a complete Israeli withdrawal from the occupied territories.

Jordan also condemned the attack, with an official spokesman telling the state-run Petra news agency, “Amman assails this ugly racist murder that was carried out by an Israeli terrorist.”

In Syria, Abdel Hadi Nashash, spokesman for Fatah Uprising, an anti-Arafat Palestinian group, said, “Fighters of the Palestinian revolution should hit Israeli targets inside and outside the occupied territories.”

In Los Angeles, the Muslim Public Affairs Council said: “The Israeli claim that the murderer was a deranged man, rather than a terrorist, is typical of an occupying force whose end is to dehumanize its subjects of occupation.”