Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat is “leading his people to an economic holocaust,” Israeli Defense Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer said. Unemployment in the areas under P.A. control is worse than ever, and this is the “responsibility of the Palestinians, especially Arafat,” Ben-Eliezer added.
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