Some 25,000 people attended the funeral of Arafat Jaradat, the Palestinian who died while being held in an Israeli jail. The show of solidarity was significant and led to protests near the city of Bethlehem in which Israeli troops used live ammunition to quell the unrest. Again, one can only expect the protests to grow in intensity.
The Italian election turned out to be massively indecisive, with the most likely result a hung Parliament and another election soon. Amazingly, the center-right coalition led by former Prime Minister Silvio Berlsuconi seems to have garnered the largest plurality of votes–his four criminal convictions and his current indictment notwithstanding. The biggest loser was the current Prime Minister, Mario Monti, who is the darling of the European Union and the International monetary Fund. The results sent the world stock markets into a tizzy. We’ll see how this shakes out in the global economy over the next few weeks.
Kenya held its last Presidential debate, a week before the national elections. The last election in 2007 was marred by violence, and it is feared that a similar outbreak of violence may accompany the election scheduled for 4 March.
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