Mubarak: Expelling Arafat 'extremely dangerous'

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Mubarak: Expelling Arafat 'extremely dangerous'

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Israel's decision to expel Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat would be "extremely dangerous," Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said Monday in Paris following a meeting with French President Jacques Chriac.

"We have talked with the Americans who are the only one to be able to have an influence on Israel. We have told them that the expulsion of Yasser Arafat is extremely dangerous. It is not because we love Yasser Arafat but because it concerns the living, the stability, the security of the two countries," said Mubarak.

He also condemned Israel's decision to kill Arafat. "It would be a totally new way of reaction in the world -- he is my adversary and I will kill him. If the Israelis kill Yasser Arafat and if everyone kills his adversary, the world will be a total chaos," hesaid.

"The expulsion or assassination of Yasser Arafat will not resolve anything. I said this not because I love this one or that one, but because we want peace, we want to find a realistic and political way to resolve the problem so that the peoples could live together in peace," he added.

"The roadmap peace plan was a good solution had it been implemented in an adequate way by both sides," he said.

The Egyptian president also said he is very preoccupied with the instability in Iraq and possible repercussion in the region.

Israel's security cabinet on Thursday evening agreed in principle to expel Arafat and Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Sunday that killing Arafat is "definitely one of the options" the Israeli government has in its threat to "remove" him as an obstacle to peace.

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