(Telegraph-UK) - Netanyahu Blasts Foreign Secretary Straw: Britain Legitimizing "A Regime Compromised by Terror" "The Palestinian leadership does not need to meet abroad to close down suicide kindergarten camps, to stop incitement to murder, and to fight terrorism. This they can do in Ramallah and Gaza - right here, right now. Until the Palestinian leadership does so, it must be given no quarter and no legitimacy in the free world," Israeli Foreign Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw had earlier tried in vain to persuade the Israeli minister to rescind his travel ban. But Mr. Netanyahu said the double suicide bombing in Tel Aviv ruled out "business as usual." Britain should adopt the U.S. position that "leaders compromised by terror cannot be partners for peace," he said.
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