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By Jim Teeple
Jerusalem
07 March 2008

Funerals were held Friday for the eight victims of Thursday night's terror attack at a Jerusalem yeshiva, or rabbinical seminary. VOA's Jim Teeple reports police imposed a security clampdown on Arab East Jerusalem where the Palestinian gunmen who carried out the attack lived.

There was grief in Jerusalem on Friday as thousands of Israelis converged¹ on the Mercaz Harav yeshiva to mourn the victims of Thursday night's terror attack. Funerals for the victims took place at cemeteries² across the city.

The attack was the worst to occur in Israel in two years and shocked many Jerusalemites who have grown accustomed to relaxed security measures in recent years as terrorist attacks have greatly diminished.

While there was grief there was also anger at the Mercaz Harav yeshiva. The yeshiva is a stronghold of the Jewish settler movement and many settler leaders have studied there. Reuben, a former student, who did not wish to give his last name, expressed the feelings of many who came there to mourn on Friday.

"It is about time we stopped messing around and fooling around with our country," said Reuben. "We are here in the Middle East, which is full of terrorists who have sworn since we came here, rightfully to our land, they swore to kill us. This is no time to have any dialogue. If they want to kill us, we should kill them.

Others in the crowd like Mandel Nadler said they appreciated the outpouring of support for Israel in the wake of the attack - especially from the United States.

"We appreciate the United States support for Israel's fight against terrorism," said Nadler. "This is a world problem, it is a religious problem. It is a social problem and we very much appreciate the U.S support and its citizen's support for those of us here who are trying to fight against terrorism and make the world safe for all normal people."

Police identified the gunmen as a 25-year-old Palestinian man, Ala Abu Dheim, who lived in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabel Mukaber. Police say he worked as a driver. Family members say he did not belong to any Palestinian militant³ group. They say he was quiet and religious, but had become increasingly agitated⁴ in recent days over the deaths of more than 120 Palestinians killed in the Gaza Strip by Israeli forces in their operations against Palestinian militants⁵ firing rockets at southern Israel.

Israeli police spokesman Mickey Rosenfeld says a car used by the gunmen was found near the yeshiva. He says the focus of the police investigation⁶ now is how the gunman managed to obtain a Kalashnikov rifle and a large number of ammunition⁷ clips.

"We are continuing the investigation to see if he might have received specific orders to carry out the attack in terms of equipment," said Rosenfeld. "That allowed him to arrive in Jerusalem with an AK-47, Kalashnikov rifle, with over eight clips, and that is something that has to be coordinated⁸ obviously with other individuals.

Senior Israeli government officials said Friday they have no plans to suspend negotiations⁹ with the moderate Palestinian government of President Mahmoud Abbas who has condemned¹⁰ the attack.

However they say the attack shows that Mr. Abbas must do more to control Palestinian militancy¹¹ in the West Bank, saying that the gunmen who carried out Thursday night's attack could not have done so without some sort of help from Palestinians in the West Bank.

1 converged   

v.（线条、运动的物体等）会于一点( converge的过去式 )；（趋于）相似或相同；人或车辆汇集；聚集

参考例句：

• Thousands of supporters converged on London for the rally. 成千上万的支持者从四面八方汇聚伦敦举行集会。
• People converged on the political meeting from all parts of the city. 人们从城市的四面八方涌向这次政治集会。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 cemeteries   

n.（非教堂的）墓地，公墓( cemetery的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• It's morbid to dwell on cemeteries and such like. 不厌其烦地谈论墓地以及诸如此类的事是一种病态。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• In other districts the proximity of cemeteries seemed to aggravate the disease. 在其它地区里，邻近墓地的地方，时疫大概都要严重些。 来自辞典例句

3 militant   

adj.激进的，好斗的；n.激进分子，斗士

参考例句：

• Some militant leaders want to merge with white radicals.一些好斗的领导人要和白人中的激进派联合。
• He is a militant in the movement.他在那次运动中是个激进人物。

4 agitated   

adj.被鼓动的，不安的

参考例句：

• His answers were all mixed up,so agitated was he.他是那样心神不定，回答全乱了。
• She was agitated because her train was an hour late.她乘坐的火车晚点一个小时，她十分焦虑。

5 militants   

激进分子，好斗分子( militant的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The militants have been sporadically fighting the government for years. 几年来，反叛分子一直对政府实施零星的战斗。
• Despite the onslaught, Palestinian militants managed to fire off rockets. 尽管如此，巴勒斯坦的激进分子仍然发射导弹。

6 investigation   

n.调查，调查研究

参考例句：

• In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
• He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。

7 ammunition   

n.军火，弹药

参考例句：

• A few of the jeeps had run out of ammunition.几辆吉普车上的弹药已经用光了。
• They have expended all their ammunition.他们把弹药用光。

8 coordinated   

adj.协调的

参考例句：

• The sound has to be coordinated with the picture. 声音必须和画面协调一致。
• The numerous existing statutes are complicated and poorly coordinated. 目前繁多的法令既十分复杂又缺乏快调。 来自英汉非文学 - 环境法 - 环境法

9 negotiations   

协商( negotiation的名词复数 )； 谈判； 完成（难事）； 通过

参考例句：

• negotiations for a durable peace 为持久和平而进行的谈判
• Negotiations have failed to establish any middle ground. 谈判未能达成任何妥协。

10 condemned   

adj. 被责难的, 被宣告有罪的 动词condemn的过去式和过去分词

参考例句：

• He condemned the hypocrisy of those politicians who do one thing and say another. 他谴责了那些说一套做一套的政客的虚伪。
• The policy has been condemned as a regressive step. 这项政策被认为是一种倒退而受到谴责。

11 militancy   

n.warlike behavior or tendency

参考例句：

• Full of militancy and revolutionary ardour, the people of all nationalities in the country are working hard for the realization of the four modernizations. 全国各族人民意气风发， 斗志昂扬，为实现四个现代化而奋战。
• The seniority system is another factor that leads to union militancy. 排资论辈制度也是导致工会好斗争的另一因素。