The wife of British Prime Minister Tony Blair sympathized with Palestinian suicide bombers, calling their attacks a symptom of despair. “As long as young people feel they have got no hope but to blow themselves up you are never going to make progress,” Cherie Blair said Tuesday during an appearance with Jordan’s Queen Rania to support a $750,000 charity appeal for Medical Aid for Palestinians.
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