Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister said he would be more optimistic about the prospects of an end to Israeli-Palestinian violence if Ariel Sharon were not Israel’s prime minister. “I would be more optimistic if Sharon were not there. In Sharon’s view, a good Arab is a dead Arab,” Prince Saud al-Faisal said in Washington on July 18 after meeting with President Bush at the White House.
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