President Clinton praised Ariel Sharon for engineering Israel’s withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. Addressing a Jerusalem audience Saturday as part of memorial events for the slain Yitzhak Rabin, Clinton praised “Prime Minister Sharon’s astonishingly courageous withdrawal from Gaza.” But he warned against a long-term go-it-alone peace policy by Israel.
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