Israeli Foreign Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Yasser Arafat’s goal is to destroy Israel. Speaking last week in Paris after a meeting with the French foreign minister, Netanyahu said the goal of the Palestinian Authority president “is the liberation of all of Palestine, and Palestine is not defined as the West Bank and Gaza.”
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