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TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's president said on Sunday the Lebanese and the Palestinians had pressed a "countdown button" to bring an end to Israel. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who triggered outrage in the West two years ago when he said Israel should be "wiped off the map", has often referred to the destruction of the Jewish state but says Iran is not a threat. "With God's help, the countdown button for the destruction of the Zionist regime has been pushed by the hands of the children of Lebanon and Palestine," Ahmadinejad said in a speech. "By God's will, we will witness...

NEW YORK- In blatant violation of President Bush's Road Map, the Palestinian Authority has justified the Palestinian Arab suicide bombing in the town of Rosh Ha'ayin, in which one Israeli was murdered and ten wounded. The official PA statement regarding the Rosh Ha'ayin bombing included a brief, perfunctory condemnation of what it called "the Tel Aviv operation," but then proceeded to offer a lengthy justification of the attack. The PA portrayed the attack as a response to "the criminal Israeli operations in Nablus ... the aggression against our masses and people ... [the] thousands of martyrs and wounded people, destruction,...