Envoys for Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon are in Washington defending Israel’s security fence. Sharon bureau chief Dov Weisglass and Amos Yaron, director-general of Israel’s Defense Ministry, were slated to meet U.S. National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice on Monday to address whether the fence will encompass the Jewish city of Ariel, located a few miles inside the West Bank.
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