We have a major problem here in Palestine. It's either/or — Fatah or Hamas," says Bayan Shbib, an actress in the relatively upscale neighborhood of El-Bireh near Ramallah. "To me they have both proven a failure in responding to the people's needs and aspirations.... They are not doing any good for the P

Arab world." =div style="text-align: right;" align="right">[Al-Hayat Al-Ja=ida, Dec. 21, 2015] "The national and Islamic forces in the Ramallah and El-Bireh district=set up a mourning tent to receive those offering condolences over leader S=mir Kuntar's death as a Martyr (Shahid=span style="font-size: 12

en in the current wave of violence. The official PA daily published a picture of a keffiyeh-masked young woman swinging a slingshot, with the text: "El-Bireh: A young woman throws [rocks] at them with a slingshot." [Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Oct. 27, 2015] Another Palestinian daily published a photo on the fro