Tony Blair told the U.N. Security Council that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not a root cause of global terrorism. Offering a resolution on terrorism at the United Nations on Wednesday, the British prime minister insisted that Islamic fundamentalists are exploiting Middle East unrest to further their own cause and emphasized how, in the Palestinian territories, “terrorism does not create progress but destroys it.”
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