President Bush supported Israel’s right to self-defense after the airstrike on a suspected Islamic Jihad camp in Syria. “I made it very clear to the prime minister, like I have consistently done, that Israel has got a right to defend herself, that Israel must not feel constrained, in terms of defending the homeland,” Bush said Monday of his call to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon after the weekend air raid.
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