Israel’s prime minister compared his Palestinian counterpart, Mahmoud Abbas, to a young chicken who will need help fighting terrorism until he grows his feathers. At a special Cabinet meeting Thursday to address the previous day’s suicide bombing in Jerusalem, Ariel Sharon also called Palestinian Authority leaders “crybabies” who don’t fight terrorism but then “whine” about Israel’s antiterror operations.
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