Britain says death threat to Arafat 'unacceptable'

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Britain says death threat to Arafat 'unacceptable'

The Israeli suggestion that it was considering killing Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was "unacceptable", the British government said Monday.

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The Israeli suggestion that it was considering killing Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was "unacceptable", the British government said Monday.

During a meeting between British minister for Middle Eastern affairs, Elizabeth Symons, and the Israeli Ambassador to Britain Zvi Shtauber, the British government made clear that Britain "views that the expulsion of president Arafat would be wrong and would not be in the interests of long term peace, and that the comments made about assassinating Arafat were unacceptable," a Foreign Office spokesman said.

Israeli Vice-Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Sunday that "killing" Arafat is "definitely one of the options" the Israeli government has in its threat to "remove" the Palestinian leader.In the wake of last week's twin suicide bombings that killed 15 Israelis, Israel's security cabinet on last Thursday agreed in principle to expel Arafat but not to do anything immediately.

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