A rift has developed between Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his foreign minister. Shimon Peres is angry over his exclusion from the team meeting with U.S. envoy Anthony Zinni. A senior government official acknowledged the two had clashed at a meeting Wednesday, when Peres accused Sharon of bypassing him and creating a “second Foreign Ministry.”
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