Featured News Story Palestinians Suspend Talks With Israel

2-MAR-2008: Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert speaks during a press conference at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo, Japan, Thursday, Feb. 28, 2008. About a late Wednesday's Israeli air strike on Hamas government offices and metal shops in the Gaza Strip, killing a baby and wounding more than 30 people in a retaliatory strike after a militant rocket killed an Israeli college student, Olmert insisted that it was the duty of the Israeli government to protect its people. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi) [Photo copyright 2008 by AP] [Subscribers, read clari.web.world.mideast.israel]