Outgoing Israeli Foreign Minister Ariel Sharon snubbed a visiting French envoy to protest what he called French President Jacques Chirac’s “one-sided” reaction to last week’s Israeli air strikes in Lebanon. Chirac condemned the air strikes, but “didn’t even mention, not one word, the two Israelis who had been killed by the Katyusha rockets fired from Lebanon” before Israel launched its reprisal attack, the Foreign Ministry was quoted as saying Monday.
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