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Arafat scoffs at Sharon offer of permanent exile Palestinian leader says he would rather die than leave
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Arafat scoffs at Sharon offer of permanent exile
Palestinian leader says he would rather die than leave
Associated Press, Knight Ridder News Service
Wednesday, April 3, 2002
Jerusalem -- Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, responding to
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's offer of permanent exile, said
Tuesday that he would rather die than leave the West Bank.
Confined to his office in Ramallah since last Friday, Arafat
scoffed at Sharon's suggestion that Eur...
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