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Published 1/4/2009 at Yahoo! News: Politics News
AP - The Bush administration on Saturday blamed the more than week-old onslaught in the Gaza strip squarely on Hamas militants and avoided any criticism of Israel despite mounting world outrage over a death toll now topping 460 and growing.
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