US President George W. Bush condemned Wednesday’s suicide bombing in Jerusalem, offered his condolences to the victims, and called on the international community to cut the flow of money to terrorist organizations. But the president gave little indication of what he would do to try to salvage the road map and his nascent Middle East peace effort, which have been jeopardized by this week’s violence. “It is clear there are people in the Middle East who hate peace. There are people who want to kill in order to make sure that the desires of Israel to live in secure peace don’t happen; who kill to make sure the desires of the prime minister from the Palestinian Authority, and others, of a peaceful state living side by side with Israel do not happen,” Bush told reporters during a visit to Chicago, where he spoke on Medicare. Full Story
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