Palestinian suicide bombings are effective, despite Israeli claims that Israel will never bow to terror, a top Hamas official said. Speaking after Thursday’s deadly bombing aboard a Jerusalem bus, Abdel Aziz Rantissi said such attacks are what prompted the newly elected leader of Israel’s Labor Party, Amram Mitzna, to declare this week that he would uproot Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip immediately upon taking office.
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