Israel should stop using U.S.-built warplanes for attacks on the Palestinians, Vice President Dick Cheney said Sunday. But Cheney declined to say whether the United States would take steps to force Israel to keep the American-supplied F-16s grounded. After a Hamas suicide bomber killed five people in Netanya last Friday, Israel responded by launching its first F-16 strikes on the West Bank and Gaza Strip since the violence erupted last September.
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