The protesters did not attempt to reoccupy roads and no violence was reported.
The first is that he receives American guarantees that Israel will not reoccupy PA areas once Mr Zinni leaves and the heat is off the Israeli prime minister.
Israel said it welcomed the initiative as "important", but the bombing provoked Ariel Sharon to reoccupy the West Bank, and the idea went nowhere.
If the aim is to bring down Hamas, then the army will need more time, and will perhaps even reoccupy Gaza.
"Israel is now implementing its plan to topple President Arafat, undermine the PA and reoccupy the PA areas," says Marwan Barghouti, the West Bank leader of Fatah.
But Afghan-watchers have been issuing stern warnings against the assumption that everyone's problems will be over as soon as anti-Taliban forces reoccupy the capital.
The marines had mapped out an area which the Taliban might try to reoccupy, and they had established good relations with some local militias.
That might bring his fief tumbling down and force Israel to reoccupy West Bank cities, which in turn would sharpen confrontation between the two communities and heap a new load of opprobrium on Israel.Worse for the Israelis, American support at the UN may prove less rock-solid than before.
In Hebron, the Jewish settlers redoubled their pressure on the government and the army to reoccupy the Abu Sneineh quarter, from where Palestinian snipers have fired on to the small Jewish enclave.
The next phase of the war, he said on January 14th, would oblige the army to reoccupy the so-called "Philadelphi Route", a narrow tract of land on the Gaza side of the strip's border with Egypt.
But this is offset by his apparent rejection of the need for the Tories to reoccupy the centre ground of British politics, where elections are usually won.
