Yasser Arafat called for economic sanctions against Israel. The Palestinian leader said “real and effective” international pressure against Israel was needed to force a permanent peace settlement. “All negotiation tracks have broken down,” Arafat told an audience in South Africa, comparing current Israeli policies to those of apartheid. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s spokesman, David Bar-Illan, said Arafat’s call was not “furthering the cause of peace.”
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