President Bush strongly condemned Wednesday’s bus bombing in Jerusalem and called on countries to cut off funding to terrorist groups. “They’re people who want to kill in order to make sure that the desires of Israel to live in secure peace don’t happen; who kill to make sure the desires of the prime minister from the Palestinian Authority and others, of a peaceful state living side by side with Israel, do not happen,” Bush said in Chicago.
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