Mourning Mandela As Their Champion, Palestinians Light Candles, Raise His Picture In Protests

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Source: Associated Press

Karin Laub, The Associated Press Dec 8, 2013 12:47:29 PM

Palestinians mourned Nelson Mandela as their most loyal champion, lighting candles in special prayer services Sunday and holding his picture like a shield in confrontations with Israeli troops.

But the death of the South African leader who famously said that “our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians” also reminded many here of how far they are from establishing a state of their own.

U.S.-mediated talks between Israelis and Palestinians on the terms of such a state have reached their mid-way point and appear bogged down.

“I don’t think our leaders or the Israeli leaders or the American leaders will make peace here,” Wael Shihadeh, 52, said Sunday while chopping eggplants in the kitchen of a Ramallah restaurant. Palestinians lack a leader of Mandela’s calibre, he said.


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