David Bedein

Israel does have The Basic Law, which guards the rights and dignity for all of its citizens, and which gives all citizens the right to sue the government in the Israeli citizens court - the Israel High Court of Justice. Experience has it in Israel that when a citizens group needs budget to protect a fundamental need, that citizen group simply sues in the Israel High Court of Justice and the court often orders the government to find a way to protect human rights, and to find the necessary funds for that purpose.

Any Palestinian government that adopts the conditions of the Quartet and the international community will be acceptable to Israel, Olmert said, and Israel will cooperate with it. Yet until then Israel would do everything in its power to prevent terrorism. He said in recent months Israel had exercised absolute restraint, but the Palestinians had not honored the cease-fire for even one day.

In a letter that 40 members of the ruling UMP party in France sent to President Jacques Chirac, they wrote that "with financing and support from Iran and Syria, the organization (Hezbollah) constitutes a grave threat to the possibility of a peaceful solution in the region. Hezbollah is responsible for the attacks and for the taking of the captives."

--Israelis and Palestinians are making the final preparations for the expected summit in the last week of February with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Abu Mazen and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. That summit is supposed to be the launching point of negotiations between the two sides, which will be defined as a framework of meetings and reciprocal examination--Hezbollah Bombs--Israeli Foreign Ministry And Security Officials: 'Nasrallah Will Take Over Lebanon'

--Over the weekend, three cease-fire agreements were signed with the assistance of the Egyptian security delegation, but all of the efforts to bring about reconciliation ended in failure and the battles were renewed--The University Front --Tirawi Strikes Rajoub With His Shoes--Egyptian Spy Scandal

Israel's leading news internet magazine, a Hebrew news blog located at http://nfc.co.il, ran an unusual newsworthy headline: "Terror Attacks with U.S. funding." The news item noted that Abbas' armed forces had been strongly armed by Egypt and by Jordan in the past few months, in coordination with the U.S. government, which has made it a matter of policy to strengthen Abbas. Egypt armed 1,900 troops of Abbas' militias, while Jordan armed 3,000 troops loyal to Abbas.

--The Israeli military did not say how Hezbollah was able to construct the bunkers inside Israel. The sources said the bunkers were part of a huge Hezbollah tunnel network that fired Katyusha rockets into Israel throughout the 34-day war in mid-2006. Hezbollah fired 4,500 short- and medium-range rockets, many of them from positions within one kilometer of the Israeli border.--Palestinian Factions Seek To Form Army

A Palestinian suicide bomber killed three Israelis at a bakery yesterday in the first such attack inside the country in nine months. "This is a grave incident, it's an escalation and we shall treat it as such," said Defense Minister Amir Peretz.

--Iran Seeks Total Control Over Iraq--Yemen Is Major Contributor To War In Iraq--Sudan Said To Shelter Iraqi Insurgents