Israeli flags are displayed before the national Memorial Day ceremony in Jerusalem.
Israeli flags are displayed before the national Memorial Day ceremony to commemorate Israeli soldiers killed in wars since 1948, on the Mount of Olives military cemetery overlooking Dome of the Rock shrine, located in the Al Aqsa mosque compound (known to Jews as the Temple Mount) in Jerusalem May 10, 2005. Israel's defense chief on Tuesday shot down a suggestion by the foreign minister that a planned Gaza withdrawal could be derailed if Hamas militants triumph in a Palestinian parliamentary election. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic GOT/JK/VP