But Palestinian militants who accuse Tenet of trying to divide the Palestinians vowed not to end the intefadeh, or uprising. Tenet met with the Israeli and Palestinian security chiefs for nearly three hours at Palestinian offices about two kilometres from a Ramallah intersection where Israeli forces and Palestinians exchange gunfire most every Friday. This Friday, those guns were quiet. But just five kilometres to the north, a roadside shooting near Ofra settlement injured an Israeli civilian, according to the Israeli army spokesman's office. Elsewhere in Ramallah, a Palestinian boy was injured by a shot to the lower back as he ran away after hurling stones at Israeli army jeeps.
Tenet go home.
They also doused in fuel and set ablaze a cardboard model of the Tel Aviv beachfront disco area where a suicide bomber killed 20 Israelis June 1. Marwan Barghouti, leader of the Tanzim militia loyal to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, marched with the crowd. This man will fail to do so. None of those involved in the closed three-way meeting addressed reporters. Previous security talks mediated at a lower level by the Americans, most recently May 30, have ended inconclusively, with each side blaming the other.