(Ha'aretz) - Aluf Benn Prime Minister Sharon Tuesday rejected ideas about transferring Israeli Arab villages to the control of a future Palestinian state, in a land swap agreement incorporated within a peace deal. "The Arab population should view itself as an integral part of Israel's population," Sharon said, during a visit to Kafr Qasem. "All sorts of ideas about separating from this population should be scrapped - we need to live together here."
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