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...noon I prayed at the mosque. After the prayer a march started and went through the city of Ramallah and al-Bireh. The protesters condemned the Sharm el-Sheikh accord. The protesters arrived at the confrontation line. The occupation soldiers attacked them. We heard youths asking for help. We did not hear the sounds of gunfire. The Israeli soldiers used guns with silencers. We were unable to do the late-afternoon prayer in a mosque, so we prayed in the open. We tried to avoid being shot by snipers at the City Inn Hotel and the building next...
...cause, we can actually do something to change things. The bad news? We probably won't. Governments, including that of the United States, have always been hesitant to rein in industrial polluters and the automobile industry. Three years ago, the U.S. Senate balked at the international community's Kyoto Accord, which would have ostensibly reduced emissions and established detailed regulations to control greenhouse gases...
...noon I prayed at the mosque. After the prayer a march started and went through the city of Ramallah and al-Bireh. The protesters condemned the Sharm el-Sheikh accord. The protesters arrived at the confrontation line. The occupation soldiers attacked them. We heard youths asking for help. We did not hear the sounds of gunfire. The Israeli soldiers used guns with silencers. We were unable to do the late-afternoon prayer in a mosque, so we prayed in the open. We tried to avoid being shot by snipers at the City Inn Hotel and the building next...
...Oslo accord the Israelis and Palestinians signed was supposed to set in motion a peace process with interim agreements that would bring an end to these violent eruptions. What happened? Is there a weakness in the peace process that you didn't anticipate...
...with the right-wing Likud party. Going back to the negotiating table right now may not suit either side, even though they may work to keep channels open in order to ensure that the low-level shooting war doesn?t spin out of control. Seven years after the Oslo Accord, the reality on the West Bank and Gaza remains Israeli occupation and Palestinian intifadah. But now, as then, it?s a contest that neither side can really win by force, and at some point they?ll be forced to start talking again. But a lot more blood may be spilt...