The U.S. secretary of defense backed Israel’s policy of retaliating for Palestinian terror attacks. “I think that any time people are doing suicide bombings and blowing up your people at bus stops and in restaurants, you certainly cannot sit there and tolerate that,” Donald Rumsfeld told the “Fox News Sunday” TV program.
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