Following the outbreak of Israeli-Palestinian fighting in September 2000, Amman withdrew its ambassador to Israel for four years.

Four years of Israeli-Palestinian fighting have extinguished virtually all political contacts between the sides.

By comparison, the first 15 months of Israeli-Palestinian fighting, which erupted in September 2000, caused an estimated $305 million in damage.

Until today, Israeli-Palestinian fighting had claimed only one life since the war began last Thursday.

There have been lower-level ties with other states, though many of those dealings have been frozen during the Israeli-Palestinian fighting over the past six years.

During the last five years of Israeli-Palestinian fighting, negotiated agreements have been rare, and ones generating tangible results have been virtually nonexistent.

Her running career began shortly after the current round of Israeli-Palestinian fighting erupted in September 2000.

But after Israeli-Palestinian fighting erupted in 2000, Jordan withdrew its ambassador.

But it never fully took hold, collapsing amid ongoing Israeli-Palestinian fighting.

The left has been largely sidelined during the past three and a half years of Israeli-Palestinian fighting.