1- Israel’s Battle for Peace - Prewar Updates 2008

Israel’s Battle for Peace
Prewar Updates: Israel/Gaza Conflict
Friday, February 29, 2008

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YNETNews.com has this report today about some tough rhetoric coming from Defense Minister Ehud Barak. It goes in part like this... Hamas is to blame for the latest escalation in the Gaza Strip and the organization "will bear the consequences," Defense Minister Ehud Barak said during a visit to Ashkelon Friday, a day after a massive rocket barrage hit the southern city... "An Israeli response is required and forthcoming," he said, adding that "the government will make every effort to prevent additional rocket attacks on Ashkelon."...
Read this report in full HERE

* BBC News website has this take today...
Matan Vilnai said Palestinians risked a "shoah", the Hebrew word for a big disaster - and for the Nazi Holocaust... Mr. Vilnai said Israel would use all its might to defend itself, after rockets hit the city of Ashkelon, 10km (six miles) from Gaza... Hamas leader Ismail Haniya said it was ready for a large-scale Israeli attack... Israeli air strikes have killed about 30 Palestinians in the past three days...
Read this article in full at link below...
Israel warns of invasion of Gaza

* IMEMC.org brings us their take on the news...
This Week In Palestine – week 9 2008

* IHT.com has this report...
Amid lull in Gaza violence, Palestinians protest, and Israel threatens invasion.
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Israeli Strike Levels Residential Apartment Block

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Gods speed to the Israeli people
in their battle for peace
in their homeland.
AubreyJ.........
Friday, February 29, 2008
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Photo Credit: Ariel Hermoni, Defense Ministry