Obama Says Abbas ‘Strongly’ Condemned Synagogue Attack, But Israel Sees Response as Equivocal

patrick.goodenough | November 18, 2014
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President Obama said Tuesday P.A. chairman Mahmoud Abbas had “strongly” condemned a gruesome terror attack on a Jerusalem synagogue, but for Israel and its supporters the denunciation was half-hearted and risked worsening tensions by linking the attack with explosive allegations of Israeli threats to the al-Aqsa mosque.

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