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Images of stone-throwing Palestinian youths are one of the enduring images of the intifada, but how does the portrayal on television differ from the reality on the ground? Having asked friends in the region for a more detailed account and I was encouraged to go to Ramallah on a Friday to see for myself.

I asked what time it started: immediately after prayers. And that was where I rubbed shoulders, literally, with the terrorists of Hamas and Islamic Jihad. I was in good company - Reuters and other television crews were covering the march. I think I saw another tourist, clutching something like the Rough Guide to Palestine.

Burning the flag

We assembled in the main square, about five hundred strong. Flags of the various factions were being waved, the chanting started and then the effigies were brought in. Men dressed entirely in black, their faces covered except for eye slits carried forward two models, the first a settlement with a train approaching and soldiers milling, the second a coffin draped in the Israeli flag rising into a helicopter.

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