Israeli President Moshe Katsav conveyed to President Bush the “deep sorrow” of Israel after hijacked planes crashed into the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon outside Washington. “All of us in Israel embrace you, would like to express our condolences, and add our best wishes for a speedy recovery to those who have been injured. Everything must be done to defeat this phenomenon in which insane people will stop at nothing to disrupt daily life.”
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