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![](javascript:doblowup('Going Home','/images/uploaded/up_sm8JJN.jpg','Palestinian day laborers line up across a lot at the Israeli checkpoint leading from near the West Bank settlement of Modi\'in Illit into the area of Ni\'ilin, both in the West Bank, at the end of their working day on 03 December 2009, as one man kneels in prayers before joining the line. With Israel imposing the 10-month building freeze on West Bank Jewish settlements, many day laborers such as these men could be put out of work.<br />\r\n+++++++++++++<br />\r\nI literally stumbled on this with my wife Rina, who shoots for the New York Times, as we were coming back from the West Bank looking, unsuccessfully, for inspectors being blocked as they try to issue "stop work" orders to Jewish settlers building in the West Bank. We found nothing and then came across this \'checkpoint\' from "Israel" but still in the West Bank, and noticed all these workers lined up to return to the West Bank to their village for the weekend. It\'s an exclusive for us (I believe, though hate to use that word, ever!) but we\'ll see who jumps on this and copies our efforts in the days coming. It might not be this crowded until next Thursday - as many Palestinians do not cross over every day to work, but stay on the site and only return on the weekends to their families.<br />\r\n<br />\r\n',700,700);)
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 and the other a supporter of the Palestinians right to keep East Jerusalem as an Arab entity, face off inside a home that a group of Jewish settlers were taking over and were removing the Palestinians\' belongings on December 1, 2009 in Sheikh Jarrah in the Eastern part of Jerusalem. The move by the Jewish settlers comes after a court decision and as the EU decides to recognize East Jerusalem as the capital of any Palestinian state formed.<br />\r\n++++++++++<br />\r\nI thought it would come to fisti-cuffs, but it did not. The police came and demanded the non-settler\'s ID card, which broke the tension.',700,700);)
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 at the fringes of the Gilo \'settlement\' in south Jerusalem on 26 November 2009. The cement wall was placed here years ago to prevent sniper fire from the West Bank from hitting the Jewish homes in Gilo. Israel intends to build an additional 900 housing units in Gilo, which it considers annexed land and part of Jerusalem. Yesterday the Isralei Security Cabinet decided to stop construction in the West Bank for a 10-month period, but this does not include Jerusalem.',700,700);)
 from hitting Jewish homes in Gilo. A bus load of tourists came to this area to look over Bethlehem and the Israeli security wall. <br />\r\n+++++++++++++<br />\r\nWill the Palestinians return to Peace negotiations after Netanyahu\'s statement yesterday that settlement construction in the West Bank will be suspended for 10-months? If they do return for a meeting, will settlers jeopardize the process by doing some action in Jerusalem, causing Abbas to withdraw from any future meetings, and throwing Netanyahu\'s broad, bold gesture into the dustbin? Big questions....stay tuned friends, as we work this out, slowly.',700,700);)
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, in Jerusalem on 25 November 2009, a day threatening heavy rains.',700,700);)
 put on earphones to hear translations of their joint press conference in Jerusalem on 24 November 2009.<br />\r\n+++++++++++++<br />\r\nI\'m not entirely sure, but I think this could be the first press conference that Lieberman has given in this room since taking office 9-10 months ago. He is not entirely comfortable speaking to or with the press.',700,700);)
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 as he chairs the weekly cabinet meeting in his Jerusalem offices on 22 November 2009.',700,700);)
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 protective suits and breathing oxygen from air tanks on their backs pass through a large Jerusalem mall early on 15 November 2009 during an emergency drill to practice readiness during after a chemical attack.',700,700);)
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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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