Israeli opposition leader Ariel Sharon defended remarks he made in a New Yorker magazine interview calling Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat a murderer and a liar, and describing a peace agreement with the Palestinians as unattainable. Sharon said his personal views of Arafat were already known.
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