LAT: FIVE ROADBLOCKS A Camera's View of the Mideast Conflict (need Flash)

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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-122604roadblocks,0,7182857.story

FIVE ROADBLOCKS TO PEACE
A Camera's View of the Mideast Conflict (need Flash)
First parts of a five-part photo essay documenting key issues in the Israeli-Palestinian struggle.


Part I: Security (Flash) http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-122604roadblock1-fl,0,7612739.flash

Part 2: Militants (Flash) http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-122704roadblock2-fl,0,923468.flash

Part 3: Settlements (Flash) http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-122704roadblock4-fl,0,1447758.flash

Part 4: Refugees (Flash) http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-122704roadblock3-fl,0,1185613.flash

The death of Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat last month could profoundly alter the Palestinians' long-running conflict with Israel, which erupted into violence again four years ago.

Despite a sense that diplomatic progress may finally be possible, the two sides face fundamental obstacles to peace: their competing claims to the same stony tracts of land, the violence that has torn apart lives and families on both sides of the divide, the painful historical injustices the two peoples have suffered.

Times staff photographer Rick Loomis documented these enduring themes of the conflict while on assignment in the second half of last year.<snip>