ad info

 
CNN.comTranscripts
 
Editions | myCNN | Video | Audio | Headline News Brief | Feedback  

 

  Search
 
 

 

TOP STORIES

Bush signs order opening 'faith-based' charity office for business

Rescues continue 4 days after devastating India earthquake

DaimlerChrysler employees join rapidly swelling ranks of laid-off U.S. workers

Disney's GO.com is a goner

(MORE)

MARKETS
4:30pm ET, 4/16
144.70
8257.60
3.71
1394.72
10.90
879.91
 


WORLD

U.S.

POLITICS

LAW

TECHNOLOGY

ENTERTAINMENT

 
TRAVEL

ARTS & STYLE



(MORE HEADLINES)
 
CNN Websites
Networks image


Morning News

CNN.com Looks at How Some Palestinians and Israelis View Deteriorating Situation in the Middle East

Aired October 24, 2000 - 9:11 a.m. ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: Turning now to the deepening crisis in the Middle East. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak still trying to put together an emergency coalition government with the right-wing Likud Party. Street clashes are erupting again in the West Bank. A Palestinian man was reportedly killed at his house overnight. The nearly four weeks of violence has left well over 100 people dead and thousands injured.

CNN's Web site takes a special look at how some Palestinians and Israelis view the deteriorating situation in the Middle East, and they tell it in their own words.

Our colleague Leon Harris is live now from CNN Interactive. He has a close look at this Web page. It is entitled, "The Diaries of Hope and Hate."

Leon, good morning.

LEON HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR: Good morning, Daryn. And good morning, folks.

We really took an eye here, when we put this together on our Web page toward dealing with the fact that people may of us may be experiencing some sort of Mideast fatigue. The story has been in the news for a quite bit. But we thought that it would be really interesting right now to give you something that you can't get any place else that you haven't been able to get on any other news coverage at all.

So just go to our Web page at cnn.com, and you press the -- you click on the story here by the Palestinians saying the Israeli coalition government would kill the peace process, and you go to the page, and it calls up the story.

But we have got a couple of things here I think you are really going to get a big kick out of. You will find here in this one window called a "Web exclusive," and you see Mike Hanna's picture there. What we have got here is a feature that we are going to be continuing for some time, where our writers right here inside CNN Interactive are being able to debrief our reporters out in the field, and getting some background information, sort of interviewing our own people in the field, and coming up with some conversations and some information items that you really are going to find fascinating, because you can't get them any place else. So make sure you check that one out.

But go on further down past that page, that part of the page there, and you will see that we have got plenty of video to choose from throughout all of our coverage. But when you get down here and you see Time.com, "Diaries of Hope and Hate," here is something that you are going to find absolutely incredible. Because I know I did when I first saw -- I got a look at it.

A couple of writers from the "Time" magazine found some families on both sides of the issue there is Israel. And what they did was they had them keep diaries throughout this entire list -- It's been 27 days now this whole thing has been going on, and these are families of just regular people who are caught in the middle of all of this, and they have been trying to keep track of -- They have been recording for us their feelings as they try live their every day lives.

Let's go ahead and put on the screen a couple of blurbs that we have gotten from one of these. This one we got from Colonel Noam Tibon, he is with the Israeli army. And he writes in his diary on one particular entry: "The dilemma for the soldier is between the orders he received, whose main principles are restraint and humanity, and the feeling of fear as a result of the thousands of rioters who are throwing stones and Molotov cocktails at him."

Now that's a tough thing to have to deal with when you go to work every single day. Right?

Let's take a look at another one. This is from Kiyan Khaled al- Sayh, a Palestinian schoolgirl: "I went to school, but I don't have a strong desire to study. I expect to die at any moment by a stray bullet from an Israeli soldier. I looked at my house and all the spots I used to sit or play as it is my last time to see them."

And this sort of, this is just the tip of the iceberg from what you are going to find here on the Web site. You have got notes here from families members, notes from soldiers, and these are real, every day people who are trying to live their lives in the midst of all that chaos over there. So check it out.

Daryn, back to you.

KAGAN: All right, Leon Harris, thank you very much. Thanks for staying late today. Appreciate it.

TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com

 Search   


Back to the top  © 2001 Cable News Network. All Rights Reserved.
Terms under which this service is provided to you.
Read our privacy guidelines.