White House Fury over Sharon Jibe - 9/11

Wed, 30 Jun 2021 16:53:56 GMT

Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has tried to heal a diplomatic rift between Jerusalem and Washington. But he stopped short of apologising for his comment on Thursday that the US was in danger of appeasing Arab states at Israel's expense to gain support for the coalition against terrorism. That remark caused fury in the White House. President George W Bush found it unacceptable, his spokesman Ari Fleischer said.