i think they are all avoiding engaging the palestinians and reaching a solution to end the conflict. what do you think of his general view that hamas is simply not an organization and he can ever have anything to do with it? if you insist on putting representatives into government, they can t be a deal. this is an israeli viewpoint and hamas is a political force within the society. the palestinian president launched an initiative and we have to preserve the democratic process within the palestinian society a process that has been on hold since january 2010 when hamas rejected to hold elections and the idea is to create a caretaker government, transitional government to prepare for the residential elections and to let the
made a break for the hallway. we saw this large steel fire doors had come closed and had locked us in the hallway. so we tried to budge the fire door that was closest to us, and wouldn t move. so we made our way to the end of the hall. and the whole time, you know, just everything was shaking. i mean, so violently that you could barely stand up. and just the the dust was choking us, and, you know, at this point i was very afraid. and we made our way to the fire door at the end of the hall. and one of my japanese co-workers knew that it was going to be tough to open. so he just ran at it as hard as he could and hit that thing. and we were able to budge it and eventually open it to get out into the foyer of the building. and as we entered the foyer, i was shocked to see just these large granite tiles that were on the wall, they were cracking and breaking and stuff was falling from the roof. and there was these two glass doors that had locked us into the building. and we were trying to
the fire door that was closest to us and it wouldn t move. we made our way to the end of the hall and the whole time everything is shaking. so violently that you can barely stand up the dust was choking us. at that point i was very afraid. we made our way to the fire door at the end of the hall. one of my coworkers said it would be tough to open he ran and hit that thing and we were able to budge it and eventually open it to get out into the foyer of the building. as we entered the foyer, i was shocked to see the large granite tiles on the wall that were cracking and breaking and stuff fall falling from the roof. there were two glass doors that locked us into the building. we were trying to pry them apart and i was thinking about grabbing one of the bricks and smashing it through the window,
but then that feeling quickly changed to terror as the earthquake became very violent and monitors were falling off the desks, and roof tiles were falling from the roofs. and my japanese co-workers were diving under desks, and we knew that this was not your typical, you know, small japanese earthquake that we d experienced previously. did you think at that point that you were going to die? how bad was it? well, definitely. as soon as the quake started to get to the point where it was extremely violent, we knew that we needed to get out of the building and were a little afraid of possibly the building collapsing on top of us we made a break for the hallway. we saw this large steel fire doors had come closed and had locked us in the hallway. so we tried to budge the fire door that was closest to us, and wouldn t move. so we made our way to the end of the hall. and the whole time, you know,
i hadn t experienced very many earthquakes before and i was fascinated by it. the feeling quickly changed to terror as the earthquake became violent. monitors were falling off the desk and roof ties and coworkers were diving under desks and this was not your typical small japanese earthquake we experienced previously. did you think at that point you were going to die? how bad was it? definitely. as soon as the quake started to get to the point where it was extremely violent, we knew we needed to get out of the believe and we were afraid of possibly the building clollapsing on top of us we noticed that these large steel fire doors that come closed and had to block us in the hall way, we tried to budge