France’s ambassador to Israel denied Israeli media reports that he had described Ariel Sharon as a thug and referred to Israel as a paranoid country. Ambassador Gerard Araud “formally denies all the quotes attributed to him by an Israeli journalist with regard to the State of Israel and its prime minister,”
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