Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat told President Clinton at July’s Camp David summit that he feared assassination if he dropped his demand that the Palestinians control all of eastern Jerusalem, according to a seven-part series of articles published in the Palestinian Authority’s official newspaper. The New York Times reported that the articles also claim that the Palestinians believed that U.S. officials were biased in favor of Israel.
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