France criticized a call from Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon for an expansion of Jewish settlements on the Golan Heights. Sharon had told Golan residents that only an expanded Jewish presence there could “turn the settlement of the Golan to a reality that cannot be reversed.”
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