On 4 February 2008 an Israeli woman was killed and 38 others injured in the town by a Palestinian suicide bomber ( see Dimona bombing ).

* 2008 – A Palestinian gunman shoots and kills 8 students and critically injures 11 in the library of the Mercaz HaRav yeshiva, in Jerusalem, Israel.

In 2008, Hamas publicly offered a long-term hudna ( truce ) with Israel if Israel agreed to return to its 1967 borders and to grant the " right of return " to all Palestinian refugees.

In December 2008, an Israeli military court sentenced Ahmad Sa ' adat, leader of the Palestinian Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( PFLP ), to 30 years in prison for heading an " illegal terrorist organization " and for his responsibility for all actions carried out by his organization.

In the spring of 2008, President Saleh attempted to broker a reconciliation agreement between the competing Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah.

* March 13 – Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian prominent poet and writer of prose ( d. 2008 )

On 13 February 2008, The Palestinian Authorities ' Minister of Foreign Affairs announced he could provide documents for the recognition of 67 countries in the proclaimed State of Palestine.

On 8 April 2008, during his visit in Israel and Palestinian Authority, Bildt gave an interview to Swedish state radio, where he responded to a question on whether or not it would be possible to strike a peace deal without the involvement of the Palestinian group Hamas, which remained under international boycott.

The first usage was in reference to a group of West Bank settlers from Yitzhar who attacked a Palestinian village in September 2008.

# Clash of Identities: Explorations in Israeli and Palestinian Societies, New York: Columbia University Press, 2008, 431 pages.

The 2008 attack by the Israeli military on civilian areas of Palestinian Gaza was described as a " stain on the world's conscience ".

Schneider also had an uncredited cameo as a Canadian-Japanese wedding-chapel minister in the 2007 Sandler-Kevin James comedy I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry, and played a Palestinian cab driver who serves as the title character's nemesis in the 2008 Sandler film You Don't Mess with the Zohan.

* Inside a Palestinian refugee camp, Martin Asser BBC, 14 May 2008.

In 2008, a project to link Ma ' ale Adumim and Jerusalem, known as the E1 project-short for " East 1 ," as it appears on old zoning maps-was criticized by the Palestinian Authority, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and US President George W. Bush.

In the 30 March 2008 interview to Sky News, Mashal said, that Hamas will not recognize Israel and supported Hamas suicide bombings saying it is " Palestinian resistance " reaction opposing " Israeli crimes ".

Former US President and 2002 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jimmy Carter met with Mashal on 21 April 2008 and reached an agreement that Hamas would respect the creation of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip areas seized by Israel in the Six-Day War of 1967, provided that such a state is ratified by the Palestinian people in a referendum.

Later, on 27 May 2008, Mashal met the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei, in Teheran and stated, " The Palestinian nation will continue its resistance despite all pressures and will not under any circumstances stop its jihad.

However, on 29 July 2008, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas voiced his strong opposition to the release of 40 Hamas members of the Palestinian parliament in exchange for Shalit.

In 2008, Chafee joined the advisory board of J Street, a lobbying group that promotes diplomatic relations between Israel and its neighbors, and supports an independent Palestinian state.

The Jerusalem Post reported on 10 March 2008 that influential Palestinian figure Marwan Barghouti had told Israeli politician Haim Oron “ that it was possible for Israel and the Palestinians to reach a final-status agreement along the lines of the Geneva Initiative ”.

* Photo Essay: Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon, William Wheeler and Don Duncan World Politics Review, 11 March 2008

According to the Central Bank of Armenia, during the first half of 2008, cash remittances sent back to Armenia by Armenians working abroad rose by 57. 5 percent and totaled $ 668. 6 million USD, equivalent to 15 percent of the country's first-half Gross Domestic Product.

On August 11, 2008, Dallas Buck, RHP Micah Owings, and C Wilkin Castillo were traded to the Reds ( in last place in the NL Central at the time ) in exchange for OF Adam Dunn.

The Cubs successfully defended their National League Central title in 2008, going to the postseason in consecutive years for the first time since 1906 – 08.

* 2008 MINURCAT Part of a Peacebuilding Commission in the Central African Republic.

Olga V .( 2008 ), Svjashennye derevja Khodzhi Barora …, ( Sacred Trees of Khodzhi Baror: Phytolatry and the Cult of Female Deity in Central Asia ) in Etnoragraficheskoe Obozrenie, n ° 1, pp. 71 – 82.

One of Hungary ’ s top tourist destinations is Lake Balaton, the largest freshwater lake in Central Europe, with a number of 1, 2 million visitors in 2008.

In 2008, the Japanese Central Bank still has the lowest interest rates in the developed world, deflation has still not been eliminated and the Nikkei 225 has fallen over approximately 50 % ( between June 2007 and December 2008 ).

Through 13 games in 2008, the Royals were 8 – 5 and in first place in the AL Central, a vast improvement over their start from the previous season.

Olson was released from the Central California Women's Facility in Chowchilla on parole March 17, 2008, and was blocked from boarding her flight to Minnesota at Los Angeles International Airport on March 21.

In 2008, the Twins finished the regular season tied with the White Sox on top of the AL Central, forcing a one-game playoff in Chicago to determine the division champion.

Georgia responded to Nicaragua's concurrent recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia by cutting diplomatic relations with the Central American state at the end of November 2008.

Bomhard ( 2008 ) suggests a differentiation of Proto-Nostratic by 8, 000 BCE, the beginning of the Neolithic Revolution in the Levant, over a territory spanning the entire Fertile Crescent and beyond into the Caucasus ( Proto-Kartvelian ), Egypt and along the Red Sea to the Horn of Africa ( Proto-Afroasiatic ), the Iranian Plateau ( Proto-Elamo-Dravidian ) and into Central Asia ( Proto-Eurasiatic, to be further subdivided by 5, 000 BCE into Proto-Indo-European, Proto-Uralic and Proto-Altaic ).

OMA Beijing: In Asia, Koolhaas is working with his team on the office ’ s largest project to date, the 575, 000 m2 China Central Television Headquarters ( CCTV ) and Television Cultural Center ( TVCC ), currently under construction in Beijing and due for completion in 2008.

However, poor climatic conditions and severe drought badly affected the agricultural sector, thus reducing its share in the economy to about 17 % of 2008 GDP, down from 20. 4 % in 2007, according to preliminary data from the Central Bureau of Statistics.

India gave US $ 2 million worth emergency aid to Tajikistan during the 2008 Central Asia energy crisis.

* Call Me Ted by Ted Turner and Bill Burke ( Grand Central Publishing, 2008 ) ISBN 978-0-446-58189-9

According to Central Bank of Venezuela, the government received from 1998 to 2008 around 325 billion USD through oil production and export, and according to the International Energy Agency, to June 2010 has production of 2. 2 million of barrels per day, 800, 000 of which go to the United States of America.

One of Hungary ’ s top tourist destinations is Lake Balaton, the largest freshwater lake in Central Europe, with a number of 1, 2 million visitors in 2008.

* Emeliantseva, E. " Situational Religiosity: Everyday Strategies of the Moscow Christ-Faith Believers and of the St Petersburg Mystics Attracted by This Faith in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century ," in Thomas Bremer ( ed ), Religion and the Conceptual Boundary in Central and Eastern Europe: Encounters of Faiths ( Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008 ) ( Studies in Central and Eastern Europe ), 98-120.

Per United States Central Intelligence Agency's website ( as of August, 2008 ) intelligence error is described as:

A 2008 study of the genetics of Trogon suggested the genus originated in Central America and radiated into South America after the formation of the Isthmus of Panama ( as part of the Great American Interchange ), thus making trogons relatively recent arrivals in South America.

* Treaty of Semipalatinsk ( Central Asia ), signed 2006, entered into force 2008

He returned to the United States and was accepted by Central Casting as " Anglo-Saxon Type No. 2008 ".