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Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Palestinian women, walk next to a mural depicting the Al-Aqsa mosque in the West Bank town of Jenin, Saturday, Dec. 11, 2010. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said she is frustrated by the latest setback in efforts to get Israel and the Palestinians back to the peace table, but she insists the Obama administration will keep pushing. Arabic text on left reads 'Freedom, Justice'. (AP Photo/Mohammed Ballas)

A Palestinian woman walks past part of Israel's separation barrier with a mural depicting a zipper being opened to reveal a Palestinian flag in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, Saturday, Dec. 11, 2010. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said she is frustrated by the latest setback in efforts to get Israel and the Palestinians back to the peace table, but she insists the Obama administration will keep pushing. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)

A tourist walks past part of Israel's separation barrier with a mural on it depicting the Al-Aqsa mosque and Jerusalem in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, Saturday, Dec. 11, 2010. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said she is frustrated by the latest setback in efforts to get Israel and the Palestinians back to the peace table, but she insists the Obama administration will keep pushing.(AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)

Palestinian farmer Isa Sawafta stands on the frame of his cucumber greenhouse as he tries to fix damage caused by powerful wind gusts in the West Bank village of Bardala, in the northern Jordan Valley December 12, 2010. Squalls battered the West Bank and Israel's coast and interior on Sunday, disrupting shipping and road traffic and bringing some snow to the north of the country following an especially parched winter. REUTERS/Abed Omar Qusini (WEST BANK - Tags: AGRICULTURE ENVIRONMENT SOCIETY)

In this aerial photo from files dated Oct. 20, 2005, Muslim worshippers gather outside the Dome of the Rock Mosque, in the Al Aqsa Mosque compound, also known to Jews as the Temple Mount, and Jews gather at the Western Wall, bottom center, the holiest site where Jews can pray, in Jerusalem's Old City. Conventional wisdom on Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking has long held that Israel should relinquish most of the lands it occupied in 1967 in favor of a Palestinian state, the 'two-state solution' that much of the world has supported for years, but Mohammed Ishtayeh, a senior adviser to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, said on Sunday Dec. 12, 2010 'If Israel continues with these measures that it is employing today the possibility of a two-state solution becomes very slim'.« Read less (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer, File)

Palestinian Wadea Abdel-Haq, 9 In this photo taken Friday, Dec. 10, 2010, Palestinian Wadea Abdel-Haq, 9, right, plays near his house in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Ras el-Amud. Riot police arrested Wadel Abdel-Haq and his friend Omar Abu-Saoud and took them and their fathers to the station for questioning on suspicion of stone-throwing. An Israeli human rights group has accused police of arresting Palestinian minors as young as five in east Jerusalem and dealing with them in ways it says violate Israel law. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)

Palestinian university students take part in a chess competition at the Arab American University in the West Bank city of Jenin December 13, 2010. Twenty-four university students took part in the first stage of the competition, which was for Palestinian universities. The winners of this stage will face off for the right to participate in a bigger competition comprising of universities from the Arab world. REUTERS/Abed Omar Qusini (WEST BANK - Tags: SPORT CHESS EDUCATION)

FILE- thousands of Palestinian children throw ** FOR USE AS DESIRED, YEAR END PHOTOS ** FILE -In this July 22, 2010 file photo, thousands of Palestinian children throw basketballs to the air to celebrate their attempt to break the world record for the number of basketballs bounced simultaneously, in the destroyed Gaza international airport in Rafah southern Gaza Strip. The top U.N. aid official says more than 7,000 Gaza children have simultaneously dribbled basketballs for five minutes in an attempt to enter the Guinness Book of World Records. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra, File)

Palestinian Umm Eyad, 45, pours olives ** FOR USE AS DESIRED, YEAR END PHOTOS ** FILE -In this Sept. 27, 2010 file photo, Palestinian Umm Eyad, 45, pours olives from a bucket she picked before sorting out the leaves, during the harvest on the outskirts of the West Bank city of Ramallah. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen, File)

Jordan's Queen Rania speaks at a fund-raising dinner for Madrasati Palestine in Manama December 13, 2010. The dinner raised more than $780,000 for Madrasati Palestine, which was launched by Rania to renovate schools in the Palestinian territories. REUTERS/Hamad I Mohammed (BAHRAIN - Tags: SOCIETY EDUCATION ROYALS)

Crossing into Israel from West bank town - In this Dec. 5, 2010 file photo an Israeli officer walks next to Palestinian firefighters, crossing into Israel from the West bank town of Jenin through Al-Jalameh checkpoint, in order to help to extinguish the fire in northern Israel. Israel had to cancel a Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010, ceremony meant to honor Palestinian firefighters who helped battle Israel's worst wildfire after some of the Palestinians were denied entry into Israel. (AP Photo/Mohammed Ballas)

A Palestinian man walks past a portion of Israel's separation barrier in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010. Tourists from all over the world are expected to flock to Jesus' traditional birthplace to celebrate the Christmas holiday this month. The writing on the wall reads 'Merry Christmas world from Bethlehem ghetto'. (AP Photo/Tara Todras-Whitehill)

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