Ariel Sharon said he would not hurt Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat, as such a move would harm Israel. “Today we have no inclination to hurt Arafat personally,” the Israeli prime minister said in remarks published last Friday in the Israeli newspaper Ma’ariv.
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