Ariel Sharon predicted that Israel’s 1 million Arabs will launch an uprising, but did not specify when this would occur. The leader of Israel’s right-wing Likud Party made his comments about what he called the growing extremism among Israeli Arabs on Thursday before the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.
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