"You can ride the tiger, but you have no idea where it is heading .In this section Can Palestinians peacefully build a state?
Press freedom, as well as the activities of some opposition parties and human-rights NGOs, have been curtailed to ensure a smoother ride for Mr Zenawi.In this section Can Palestinians peacefully build a state?
Then, after a Palestinian mortar attack, it bombarded Palestinian security installations in the Gaza Strip from land, sea and air, and briefly reoccupied a section of Palestinian-controlled land, causing friction between Israel and the United States, and prompting European censure and wrath in the Arab world.
For such a varied cross section of Palestinian society, an unusual harmony prevailed.
That the Jews have no religious claim to the Temple Mount is a belief shared by a cross-section of Palestinians.
Israel said the army would maintain "a full encirclement on all of the Palestinian cities in the West Bank," while the Gaza Strip has been cut into four sections, with Palestinians unable to move from one to another.
He said the bombers he studied ranged in age from 17to3838 -- the average was 22 -- and represented a cross-section of Palestinian society.
It was intimately interwoven for me then with another issue: the rejection of non-violent resistance by large sections of Palestinian society.
We were by no means a cross-section of Palestinian society: I am a lawyer, and among the group was an architect, a professor, a researcher, and a former employee of an investment fund that aided Palestinian small businesses.
"He put the Palestinian cause on the map and mobilized behind his leadership the broadest cross section imaginable of Palestinians," said Khalil E. Jahshan, an Arab-American political activist who knew him well for more than a decade.
