Rabbi Shmuel Berger Elliott Mayerr), the family patriarch and charismatic chairman of the Council of Settlements, rallies people to lay down their bodies — and those of their young children — in front of the Israeli Army trucks and tanks sent to clear the settlements.
Bulldozers and armed officers moved in, clearing the settlement, while buses drew up to take refugees to temporary shelters in Normandy, Brittany and elsewhere in France.
A year later, it's clear that the settlement hasn't worked as planned.
Nor is it clear if the settlement ends the matter for PricewaterhouseCoopers.
First, it is clear that the settlement agreed with America's trustbusters in 2002 has had little or no impact on the firm's conduct.
But it is not yet clear whether the settlement will erase the rancor that has built up for at least three years.
The company has made it clear, in the settlement talks and in public, that it would not accept a breakup of the company.
Israeli officials made it clear that the settlement halt was focused mostly on one audience: the Obama administration, with which relations have been rocky.
The prime minister, Shukri Ghanim, in an interview, said that any decision by the Bush administration was strictly an "internal matter" for the United States, but that the deadlines and their consequences, made clear in the settlement with the Lockerbie families, were well known to all parties, including senior administration officials.
"Our position is clear — the whole settlement activity has to stop to give direct negotiations the chance that they deserve," said Saeb Erekat, the chief Palestinian negotiator.
