I too like the idea of sanctuary. What I do like less about it in this particular instance is that a minority of the palestinians in the church still have their weapons with them. Source: Pater Raed Abusahlia (German transliteration), secretary of patriarch Sahab, speaking to international press agencies today.

GUEST, I'd trust your motives and posts much more if the information you'd give was not so carefully selected. It took me less than a minute to go to the website of 'Reporters without borders' and find a complaint that Palestinian authorities have interfered with press work.

Wolfgang