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Article: Israel: Arafat leading 'to disaster'.
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- United Press International
- Article date:
- December 6, 2001
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TEL AVIV, Israel, Dec 06, 2001
Israeli Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer said Thursday that top Palestinian politicians and intelligence chiefs have warned that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's policy was leading his people "to disaster."
Ben-Eliezer raised the matter at a closed meeting with the parliamentary Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee in Tel Aviv.
A participant in that meeting, who spoke to UPI on condition of anonymity, said the defense minister cited as critics the Secretary of the Palestine Liberation Organization's Executive Committee Mahmoud Abbas better known as Abu Mazen, the Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative ...