Trade and Industry Minister Ariel Sharon has accused Prime Minister Shimon Peres and the Labor Party of conducting a “White Paper” policy — similar to that of the Mandatory government when it banned the purchase of land by Jews from Arabs. Speaking to former members of the Irgun Zvai Leumi Wednesday, Sharon criticized the ousting of Knesset member squatters from a house in the Arab marketplace in Hebron.
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