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Arafat can't be buried in Jerusalem, Israeli official says.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, November, 2004
By Evan Osnos, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Nov. 6--RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Yasser Arafat, comatose in a French hospital, could be buried in the Gaza Strip but never in Jerusalem, a senior Israeli official said Friday, staking out Israel's position in a potential dispute over the interment of the ailing Palestinian leader.
The issue of where Arafat would be buried is just one of the sensitive emotional and political questions Palestinian and Israeli officials are confronting as they prepare for the 75-year-old leader's death. Political leaders on all ...
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