Italy cut off ties with Yasser Arafat and the Palestinian Authority months ago, according to Premier Silvio Berlusconi. The contacts were cut after 29 Israelis were killed in a suicide bombing at a Passover seder in Netanya in March, Berlusconi told visiting Israeli President Moshe Katsav on Wednesday.
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