Chirac: Arafat is to Blame for the Failure of Peace Negotiations

(Yediot Ahronot-Hebrew; 23Sep03) - Eitan Amit and Itamar Eichner French President Jacques Chirac sees Yasser Arafat as having a large part of the responsibility for the failure of peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians because "he always wanted a little more." Nonetheless, he added that Israel would be mistaken to reject Arafat.