The U.S. ambassador to Israel said there was no excuse for continued Palestinian terrorism in the Gaza Strip. “I think, from the perspective of one of the key international players which has supported Israel’s right to defend itself, we will defend it even more vigorously,” Daniel Kurtzer told the Jerusalem Post on Tuesday, when asked about Israel’s security position after it quit Gaza this week.
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