Hope Idles at West Bank Roadblock

RAMALLAH, West Bank, July 26 — Ahmed al-Awawdeh is a poor man who was hoping to lose his job today.

Mr. Awawdeh earns about $12 a day driving a horse-drawn cart that shuttles Palestinians several hundred yards between two Israeli military checkpoints on the edge of Ramallah, in the West Bank.

He was pleased when he saw television pictures on Friday of President Bush with his arm around the Palestinian prime minister, Mahmoud Abbas, at the White House. Then he read in the newspaper this morning that Israel had announced the removal of three major West Bank checkpoints, which apparently included the one where he labored.

If the Israeli soldiers were gone, along with the huge cement cubes that blocked the road in two places, Palestinians could zip past in cars and taxis. They would no longer require Mr. Awawdeh and his white horse to travel between the checkpoints. It was a prospect that gladdened his heart.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/27/international/middleeast/27MIDE.html?ex=1059883200&en=d7074849f11d245f&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE
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More Sharon lies and fabrications, more PA lies and fabrications... will this ever end?

Seing that Delay will likely say something antoagonizing and stupid in an attempt to get AIPAC on his side.

How I hate those neocons who have it in their twisted brains that they are pro-Israel!