CHARLOTTE.

CHARLOTTE, United States (AFP) ??” The US administration warned Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon against ordering any action that would threaten Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.

White House spokesman Scott McClellan said that expelling Arafat from the Palestinian territories or any violence against Arafat would not ease the renewed Middle East crisis.

"Our views are extremely well known to prime minister Sharon," McClellan told reporters here accompany President George W Bush onward a visit.

"We have made it clear that sending him (Arafat) into exile, or otherwise dealing with him, is