Of the seven people murdered yesterday, five were Americans.

President Bush said, “I am just as angry as Israel is. I am furious.”

Palestinians couldn’t care less.

In the Gaza Strip, an estimated 10,000 people rallied on Wednesday night to celebrate the bombing attack and endorsed calls for more “martyrdom operations.”

A leading Hamas official, Abdel Aziz Rantisi, said Thursday it did not matter that mostly Americans, and not Israelis, were killed in Wednesday’s attack since it was an attack against Israeli occupation.

“We are fighting on our occupied land, and we didn’t go to America or France,” he said. “It is better for America and France to advise their citizen not to go to a war and resistance territories.”

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