Yasser Arafat complained that Israel is trying to topple him. “They are escalating military attacks everywhere in the Gaza Strip and in the West Bank,” the Palestinian leader told Reuters on Wednesday after two days of Israeli airstrikes. A spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon denied the accusation.
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