Sentence examples for ramallah you from inspiring English sources

"In Ramallah you don't have that.

But he ploughs on, talking about politics, and asking after each of the musicians we have met in turn ('Ah, Ramallah, you must have had fun!').

As Husam Zomlot, a senior figure in Fatah, put it to me in Ramallah: "You can't have discussions about how we are going to share a pizza, while one side is eating the pizza".

It is always difficult to judge to the nearest hour how long the crossing will take, so if you have an appointment in Ramallah you either take a chance on arriving an hour late or set off early, with the possibility of having to hang around in the town for an hour before the meeting.

The only billboards to mark the US president's trip to what is in effect the capital of the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank were dozens of posters put up by protesters along the main road from Jerusalem, which read: "Obama: don't bring your smart phone to Ramallah – you won't have mobile access to the internet – we have no 3G in Palestine".

(Is there even any point in asking why nobody thought to invite a Palestinian resident of Ramallah, you know, to ask what it felt like to be denied the most obvious forms of it?) Presumably, the radio celebs were trying to be ingratiating to religious people; most of the radio hosts live secular lives in Tel Aviv, and are not fussing over cleaning their houses of leavened bread.

"Did you know this arrondissement has the same population as Ramallah?" If you ask me, there's actually a lot of kindness at Parisian parties.

You drive north to the Jerusalem suburb of Psagot, which overlooks Ramallah, and you find that the houses with the best view of the Ramallah hills now have an anti-sniper concrete wall in front of them and sandbags on the windows.

Unless you're in Jerusalem, Ramallah or Nablus, you can't: they're taking this show to the occupied territories; where it's only the second opera ever to have been seen.

Ask any resident of Gaza what their thoughts are on the US-sponsored "direct talks" between Israel and Mahmoud Abbas's Ramallah government, and you're likely to hear one of three responses: 1) Surely, you jest; 2) Something's rotten in Ramallah; 3) Negotiations?

The daily Yediot Ahronot's site, which called his slaying "the first nationalistically based Internet murder," was filled with angry messages like "No peace with Ramallah" and "Barak, you fool!" The boy's friends said today that he had often talked about the on-line relationship he had developed with an English-speaking young woman, "Sally," whom he had met in an Internet chat room.