Word: ramallah
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...hotel room and watched live coverage from Ramallah, where Hamas supporters in green hats were dancing in the streets, and from Gaza City, where members of the rival Fatah party were firing guns into the air and calling for Fatah loyalist Mahmoud Abbas to resign as president of the Palestinian Authority, I remember saying aloud, “This is not good.” I was thinking about Israel when I said it; I didn’t know how bad the Hamas victory would be for the Palestinians...
...Divan Orchestra has been a locus of controversy in the Middle East. "There were many people in Palestine who didn’t want to see the orchestra playing in Palestine because they said it reeked of normalization," Barenboim says. "I took the orchestra to Ramallah as an act of defiance...
...with reporting by Jamil Hamad/ Ramallah...
...Israel's arrest Tuesday of a senior Hamas military commander in Ramallah suggests it wants to keep the focus on Hamas as a terror organization, but that may not be easy as Olmert would like to believe. Apparently aware of the danger of being isolated, the Hamas government appears to be moving towards accepting a version of the Arab League position of offering recognition of Israel within its 1967 borders. Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, in an interview with the Israeli daily Haaretz, effectively offered Israel peace in exchange for a withdrawal to 1967 borders. True, he didn't actually...
...Cutting aid to NGOs and entrepreneurs in the West Bank and Gaza before the Hamas government takes any meaningful action would be a thinly-veiled attempt to retaliate against Palestinians for choosing Hamas over Fatah. Maher Awartani, a Palestinian-American youth participation specialist at a USAID-funded project in Ramallah, rightly notes that cutting such funding in response to the recent elections would demonstrate to Palestinians that the U.S. is “punishing us for...pure indigenous democratic practice...