Israel is responsible for Palestinian suicide bombings, Syria’s president said. In an interview published Tuesday in Britain’s Daily Telegraph newspaper, Bashar Assad denied that he could do anything to stop terrorist attacks against Israelis, though many of the groups reportedly take their orders from headquarters in Damascus.
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