OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, April 3 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) – The Israeli army radio’s online news service (GLZ) denied Wednesday, April 3, that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon ordered his army chief of staff Shaul Mofaz to immediately liquidate Palestinian President Yasser Arafat in the most suitable way.

The reported order came one day after Sharon suggested that Arafat could leave on a “one-way ticket” into exile, which GLZ admitted the premier had said

"He will not be able to return," Sharon had told reporters.

Israel TV showed Mofaz urging Sharon to expel Arafat.

“We should kick him out,” Mofaz was seen telling Sharon during a joint visit to an occupation army base in the West Bank. Sharon — apparently unaware his comments were being recorded — replied, “I know.” Mofaz continued: “This is an opportunity now that won’t return.”

Sharon floated the idea of Arafat’s departure during a tour of West Bank occupation army bases, saying he had been asked by European Union envoy Miguel Moratinos whether Arafat would be able to leave Ramallah.

“I told him [Moratinos] if they [European diplomats] would like, they will fly with a helicopter and will take him from here,” Sharon said in remarks carried by Israel Radio.

“First, I would have to bring this to the Cabinet. Second, he can’t take anyone with him. And the third thing is that it would have to be a one-way ticket,” Sharon said.

However, Arafat violently rejected Sharon's threat. When asked by the Arabic satellite channel Al-Jazeera if he would surrender to the occupation troops outside his door, the Palestinian leader shouted he would instead chose to be a: "Martyr! Martyr! Martyr!"

Arafat also repeated the fact that Sharon had received a "green light" from Washington to conduct the sweeping raids on the West Bank.

"Is it possible that Sharon says he obtained the green light from the United States and nobody in the United States denies it," he said, adding that "the whole world must know that Israel does not act and cannot act without America's agreement."

“Is it his homeland or ours? We were planted here before the prophet Abraham came, but it looks like they [Israelis] don’t understand history or geography,” said Arafat.

Asked how he was coping with little food and water inside his offices, Arafat replied that "I've lived in caves…. But only God knows if after this interview they [the Israelis] will not cut the line," he said.

Palestinians were outraged by Sharon’s statement.

"This is a joke," said Arafat adviser Nabil Abu Rudeineh. "Prime Minister Sharon is not a serious man, and he's waging a war of aggression against the Palestinian people."

U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell had earlier insisted Arafat "still has a role to play" and said he was opposed to pushing him into exile.

"Sending him into exile will just give him another place from which to conduct the same kinds of activities and give the same messages that he's giving now," Powell said.

The United States is facing anger from the Arab world and elsewhere over its blind support of Israel.

Arafat remains inside his office in his badly damaged compound in Ramallah which Israeli tanks, troops and armored personnel carriers have surrounded and pounded since last Friday.

He is now isolated on the ground floor - the safest part of the building because it has no windows.

According to the BBC’s online news service, there is no running water and food supplies are low. Palestinian officials say those trapped inside are surviving on one potato a day though the Israelis deny this.