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- The Nativity doesn’t know the joy of being autonomous yet.

- On Manger Square in Bethlehem, the army and the Israeli police are here, behind their anti-stone fence.

- Control, patrols, dissuasion, searches, the classical work of occupation.

- And the tourists can’t really find anything chocking or wrong, but the locals dream about something else.

- Tourism will get better when we will be autonomous also with our Palestinian authority.

- I don’t know what happens.

- We need to wait a bit, we will see what happens there, and after that we will say whether it was good or not.

- The autonomy of Gaza or Jericho panacea.

- Over symbolical for the people of Bethlehem who don’t live thanks to tourism.

- Here, we suffer above all from the banning of going out of the West Bank to go to Jerusalem or to Israel.

- We are like deportee from the inner land,

- when the expellees come back we celebrate their return but we are personae non grata in Jerusalem that is only 10 minutes away.

- The municipality is more optimistic.

- Its mayor, one of Yasser Arafat’s Minister to be, is about to negotiate the extension of autonomy.

- I think that before the end of the year, the Palestinian National Authority will control the whole area of the West Bank and Gaza.

- We waited for 27 years.

- 6 more months are not much for the Israeli to withdraw.

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- The pitiful state of the market of Jerusalem gives evidence of the situation.

- Over 1/3 of the 700,000 inhabitants of the West Bank is on the dole.

- A population who has an urgent need of having an improved daily life.

- In the territories that remain occupied like somewhere else in Gaza or Jericho, the absolute priority is economy.

- We need creating jobs and so, to put an end to the territories blockade.

- With or without the autonomy, the Palestinian workers want to be able to make a living in Israel.