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 and the first President of the Palestinian Authority. The banner has a portrait of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas who is planning to resign from office and politics in frustration over the Israel\'s refusal to re-engage in the peace process.',700,700);)
 and a Fatah banner (R) with a large backdrop portrait of Yasser Arafat, founder and Chairman of the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) and the former first Palestinian President, during a ceremony in the \'Muqata\' or Palestinian Authority\'s headquarters in the West Bank town of Ramallah on 11 November 2009, marking the death of Arafat five years ago today in a Paris hospital. Abbas refused to repeat he was leaving office but did criticize Israel\'s failure to engage in a peace process, and the stumbling block of Israel\'s continuing to build Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Jerusalem.',700,700);)
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![](javascript:doblowup('Stabbing','/images/uploaded/up_vIUOYG.jpg','A Palestinian young man is assisted by Israeli police who escort him to a police station after the man was stabbed in his stomach by another Palestinians, apparently during a work-related argument, in Jerusalem\'s Old City on 30 October 2009. The policeman holds a razor blade knife, or box cutter, on the young man\'s shoulder. Several Palestinians were taken into custody during the incident on amain shopping street near the Jaffa Gate.At left a Palestinian delivering fruit juices on a tray stops to watch the commotion. <br />\r\n++++++++<br />\r\nJust as I arrived through Jaffa Gate some Border Police go running past me...I follow of course. Some Arab guy came at me with a building level, so I figured they were arguing over who gets the renovation work to do, or the cost of the renovation work. There is a bit of crime here, so it\'s not all "terrorism," but still a very safe place to live.',700,700);)
, or the Temple Mount, during noon prayers on 30 October 2009. Israeli security allowed anyone to attend prayers today and there was no troubles or clashes reported, possible due to a heavy rainstorm which broke out over Jerusalem just as the prayers finished.<br />\r\n++++++++++<br />\r\nI thought it a bit odd this fairly western looking young Palestinian woman would walk through two lines of men finishing up their Friday noon prayers instead of wait a minute until the prayer ends. Thanks to my friend Ronen of Reuters who talked the Border Police into letting us hang out for a few minutes talking pix. I\'ll have to check to see what he got from that moment. Just when the prayer ended the skies opened up in a pouring rain. Nice to get rain. I bought the umbrella so Ronen and I could shoot the faithful as they left.<br />\r\n',700,700);)
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 and Dalia Rabin (L and Yuval Rabin (R), the son and daughter of assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, during a memorial in Peres\' Jerusalem residence marking the 14th anniversary since the assassination of Rabin at the close of a massive Peace rally in Tel Aviv. Today marks the Hebrew calendar anniversary of Rabin\'s murder by an extremist right-wing Jew on November 5, 1995.',700,700);){kind=spacer}
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![](javascript:doblowup('No Entry in Jerusalem','/images/uploaded/up_aEBOA7.jpg','A Palestinian woman confronts Israeli Border Police behind plastic shields who block an entrance onto the Temple Mount, or the Harim el-Sharif, in the Old City of Jerusalem on 25 October 2009. Police closed the area after riots on the Temple Mount. Israel beefed up security and dealt with low level stone throwing clashes as they cleared the Temple Mount area of Palestinians after Muslim leaders urged Arabs to defend Jerusalem against "Jewish conquest."',700,700);){kind=spacer}
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 hurry past a Palestinian couple as they all enter the Damascus Gate area of the Old City in Jerusalem on 09 October 2009. The Hasidic Jews are making their way to the Western Wall for prayers during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot, and the Palestinians go to Friday noon prayers at al-Aqsa mosque at the Harim al-Sherif, or the Temple Mount. Israeli police man a checkpoint as entry for Palestinian men was put at 50 years of age or over as Israeli security feared clashes over Palestinians protesting what they call the \'Judaiztion of Jerusalem.\'',700,700);)
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 flag at sunrise in a desert camp known as \'Camp Rhino\' after landing in the first official \'boots on the ground\' after the \'War on Terrorism\' began following the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. As the US war in Afghanistan marks its 8th anniversary on 08 October 2009, US President Obama and his national security team are reviewing their war strategy as the Taliban are increasing and becoming more deadly in their attacks against US and NATO forces in Afghanistan.',700,700);)
 flag at sunrise in a desert camp known as \'Camp Rhino\' after landing in the first official \'boots on the ground\' after the \'War on Terrorism\' began following the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. As the US war in Afghanistan marks its 8th anniversary on 08 October 2009, US President Obama and his national security team are reviewing their war strategy as the Taliban are increasing and becoming more deadly in their attacks against US and NATO forces in Afghanistan.',700,700);)
 who gestures for Mitchell to enter for talks. Earlier Lieberman ha said it could take many more years to make peace between the Israelis and Palestinians. Speaking to Israel radio today Lieberman said in effect that it is unrealistic to think an agreement on ending the conflict can be reached at this time and that whoever thinks an agreement can be reached soon just doesn\'t understand the situation.<br />\r\n+++++++++<br />\r\nMaybe a Rolling Stones title is appropriate for this photo. How can the foreign minister say what he did just before the Peace envoy arrives for talks on restarting the Peace process, just after the UN three-way meeting. I don;t think there is optimism at any level on any side these days.',700,700);)
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 in Arabic, where the ancient Temples once stood, in Jeruslem\'s Old City. Tens of thousands of Jews flocked to the Western Wall in Jerusalem today for prayers that included the Priestly Blessing or Birkat Cohenim, a special prayer held three times per year for the Cohenim, believed to be the descendants of the priests of the ancient Temples, and Israel deployed additional police and riot police to quell any potential disturbances.<br />\r\n+++++++++++<br />\r\nThe woman was crying, which unfortunately does not appear well in the photo. I think she was crying out of happiness to have found policemen to share the Succot prayer with - or at least her husband did. Women would never offer men a chance to prayer in Judaism. Unheard of. Either that or maybe she was glad to be seeing Jews pray - including her husband - so close to where the ancient Temple once stood. It IS a volatile land.',700,700);)
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, were attacked by stone-throwing Palestinians youths believing they were Jews and intent on praying. Israeli forces are on additional high alert for the anniversary of the outbreak of the 2nd \'Intifada,\' or Palestinian uprising called the al-Aqsa Intifada, in 2000 when Prime Minister Ariel Sharon toured the Temple Mount that lead to massive clashes.<br />\r\n+++++++++++++<br />\r\nThere is definitely an increase in tension in the Old City but not sure if violence will repeat itself as it did on Sunday. The potential is certainly there-inactivity on the Palestinian part to stop Israelis settlements, shown in the US three-way meeting, and even the Intifada anniversary. Here these dates are remembered.<br />\r\nShot by putting the camera on my leg. I was sitting down on a chair of a vendor. The policeman certainly knew I was shooting photographs. Nothing was hidden but it was a it like shooting with an old Roliflex where one looks down, not into the viewfinder, that is disconcerting to people being photographed.',700,700);)
![](javascript:doblowup('Best Friends','/images/uploaded/up_skHFRV.jpg','In the center of Jerusalem - should have been in a dog show. Both these pups were so cute and of course best friends. I know, I should have gotten their names - I think the little guy was called "Bruiser." Here\'s to a good week.',700,700);)
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