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Tuesday, February 8, 2011

A Palestinian woman paints the national flag of Palestine on the face of a young boy to mark the Eid al-Adha holiday in the West Bank city of Hebron. Palestinians are pressing the UN Security Council to pass a resolution that they say attacks the "cancer" of Israel's occupied-territory settlements. (AFP/File/Hazem Bader)

The outline of Barack Obama is seen between the Israeli and American flags while speaking at an event to honor the 60th anniversary of Israel's independence in Washington, DC. The deadlocked Israeli-Palestinian peace process was not mentioned in Obama's State of the Union speech this week and the Palestinians and others want to know what the US Middle East strategy is. (AFP/Getty Images/File/Mark Wilson)

** TO GO WITH ARAFAT MUSEO ** In this photo taken Nov. 9, 2010, the keffiyeh, a Toshiba transistor radio and a copy of the Quran that curators say was used by late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat are displayed in the Yasser Arafat Foundation office in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Six years after his Nov. 11, 2004 death, the keepers of Arafat's memory are still gathering and sifting through his belongings, including pistols and trademark sunglasses from his guerrilla years and the military-style suits he favored until the end (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

FILE - In this Thursday, Sept. 29, 2005 file photo, an elderly Palestinian woman casts her ballot in municipal elections at a polling station in the West Bank village of Beit Fagar near Bethlehem. The Western-backed Palestinian government in the West Bank said Tuesday it will hold local council elections 'as soon as possible.' The move appeared to be a response to unrest in Egypt, where demonstrators have staged days of rallies against the authoritarian regime.(AP Photo/Kevin Frayer, File)

A Palestinian watches news from Egypt on television inside his shop in Jerusalem's Old City, Thursday, Feb. 3, 2011. (AP Photos/Bernat Armangue)

Palestinians smoke water pipes as they watch news from Egypt on television in Jerusalem's Old City, Thursday, Feb. 3, 2011 (AP Photos/Bernat Armangue)

French Foreign Affairs Minister Michele Alliot-Marie (2nd L) attends a working dinner with European Union's High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashtonat (4th R) and Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad (3rd R) during the Paris International Conference of Donors for the Palestinian State at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris February 3, 2011. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes (FRANCE - Tags: POLITICS)

Bashar Assad A Syrian man, rides his bicycle under a poster show a portrait of Syrian President Bashar Assad, rignt, and Hezbollah leader sheik Hassan Nasrallah, left, at a popular market in old Damascus, Syria, Friday Feb. 4, 2011. Campaigns on Facebook and Twitter have called for a 'day of rage' in Damascus on Friday and Saturday. But by early afternoon there were no signs of protesters anywhere in the capital. Worshippers performed Friday prayers in mosques across the city and carried on life as normal. Human Rights Watch quoted witnesses as saying Syrian security forces have been intimidating people in recent days who have tried to assemble to support the protesters in Egypt. The Arabic words in the poster above read: 'With God's help no one can conquer you'. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Palestinians protestors hold Egyptian flags as they run amidst tear gas smoke during a protest against Israel's separation barrier in the West Bank village of Bilin near Ramallah, Friday, Feb 4, 2011. (AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh)

A Palestinian protester shouts slogans during a demonstration in support for Egyptian protesters in the West Bank city of Ramallah February 5, 2011 REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman (WEST BANK - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS)

Former Israeli soldier Anat Kamm File - In this photo taken on Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2010, file photo, former Israeli soldier Anat Kamm, who has been under house arrest since December 2009, attends a court hearing in Tel Aviv, Israel. A former Israeli soldier has signed a plea bargain agreement in which she admits to passing secret documents to a newspaper reporter. Kamm copied more than 2,000 military documents when she served as a clerk in a general's office. Some of them related to the military's policy of targeted killings of Palestinian militants. In 2008 she gave them to a journalist for the daily Haaretz. Kamm was arrested in 2010 and remains under house arrest. Israeli authorities said the documents could have endangered the lives of Israeli soldiers, and initially charged her with espionage and harming state security. Sunday's plea bargain included lesser but still serious charges of collecting and passing on secret information. Kamm's jail sentence has yet to be decided by the court. (AP Photos / David Bachar) ISRAEL OUT

Palestinian children sweep water after rain showers in the West Bank village of Beit Ijza, near Jerusalem February 7, 2011 REUTERS/Mohamad Torokman (WEST BANK - Tags: ENVIRONMENT SOCIETY)

FILE- In this photo dated Wednesday, May, 25, 2010, Queen Rania of Jordan walk pass a Bedouin guard of honor during an official reception to mark the 64th anniversary of Jordan's Independence Day in Amman, Jordan. Members of Jordan's major Bedouin tribes warned Monday feb. 7, 2011 of a Tunisia or Egypt-style revolt in the country if the U.S.-backed ruler does not speed up political reforms.(AP Photo/ Nader Daoud, File)

Tourists take photographs outside the Church of Nativity, traditionally believed by many Christians to be the birthplace of Jesus Christ, in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, Monday, Feb. 7, 2011. The Palestinian Authority said Monday it has asked the U.N.'s cultural agency in January to designate the church built at the traditional birth site of Jesus as the first world heritage site in the Palestinian territories. (AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi)

FILE - In this Friday, Dec. 24, 2010 file photo, Catholic pilgrims pray inside the Grotto of the Church of Nativity, traditionally believed by many Christians to be the birthplace of Jesus Christ, in the West Bank town of Bethlehem. The Palestinian Authority said Monday, Feb. 7, 2011, it has asked the U.N.'s cultural agency in January to designate the church built at the traditional birth site of Jesus as the first world heritage site in the Palestinian territories. (AP Photo/Dimitri Messinis, File)

Israeli bulldozers demolish the Hotel Shepherd complex in east Jerusalem's Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood to make way for 20 new homes for Jewish settlers. The city council has approved plans for construction of 16 new apartments by a Jewish settlement group in the Sheikh Jarrah district of Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem. (AFP/File/Ahmad Gharabli)

A Palestinian woman stands at the door of a house in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, Monday, Feb. 7, 2011. Jerusalem officials on Monday pushed forward plans to build new Jewish housing in the Arab neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah in east Jerusalem, drawing swift condemnation from Palestinians who see it as encroaching on land they seek for a future state. (AP Photo/Michal Fattal)

A Palestinian woman looks on as a man cuts dry branches outside his house in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, Monday, Feb. 7, 2011. Jerusalem officials on Monday pushed forward plans to build new Jewish housing in the Arab neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah in east Jerusalem, drawing swift condemnation from Palestinians who see it as encroaching on land they seek for a future state. (AP Photo/Michal Fattal)

A Palestinian girl walks in a street in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, Monday, Feb. 7, 2011. Jerusalem officials on Monday pushed forward plans to build new Jewish housing in the Arab neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah in east Jerusalem, drawing swift condemnation from Palestinians who see it as encroaching on land they seek for a future state. (AP Photo/Michal Fattal)

U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay, left, speaks with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas during their meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Monday, Feb. 7, 2011
(AP Photo/Mohamad Torokman, Pool)

In this photo taken Jan. 27, 2011, Hatem Abudayyeh poses outside the office of the Arab American Action Network on Chicago's South Side. In his first in-depth interview since agents hauled bank statements, computers and even family photos from his Chicago condominium last year, Abudayyeh tells The Associated Press he believes investigators singled him out because he organized trips for Americans to Palestinian areas.(AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

French fashion designer Christian Lacroix (R) and Widad Kawar, a collector of Jordanian and Palestinian ethnic and cultural arts, visit the exhibition (FRANCE - Tags: SOCIETY FASHION)

Palestinian festive dresses are presented at the exhibition (FRANCE - Tags: SOCIETY FASHION)

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