B’nai B’rith President Tommy Baer met Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat today in the Gaza Strip. Under Baer’s leadership, B’nai B’rith has grown sharply critical of Arafat and at one point called on the United States to suspend all contact with him.
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