The United States believes “Israel’s fight is our fight,” the majority leader of the U.S. House of Representatives told the Knesset. Tom DeLay, a Texas Republican who is a staunch supporter of the Jewish state, called for Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat to be isolated and said President Bush’s leadership makes “peace in the Middle East possible and victory in the war on terror inevitable.”
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