Due to having to deal with an internet connectivity problem I’ve had for the past month, I was not in Manara Square (circle) in Ramallah early this afternoon when demonstrators arrived protesting the circumstances surrounding a Palestinian decision not to support the Goldstone report on last winter’s IDF war in Gaza , but I was told by the CEO of a wireless internet provider who has an office with a full view of the scene that he saw “about 100 of them” carrying yellow (yellow! the color of Fatah) signs. He said that “they shouted that they were not satisfied and wanted answers about what happened. The security forces behaved well, and nobody was beaten.
This shows how big this crisis is, and how everyone is conscious that everything could fall apart very fast now — and that people are now working very hard to try to contain things by working together.