Thousands of peace activists and members of left-wing parties demonstrate outside a museum in Tel Aviv on February 9, 2002, to call on Israel to stop its occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip where a Palestinian uprising has been raging for 17 months since peace negotiations ground to a halt. [In Spain, a rift between the European Union and Washington on Middle East policy grew when European Union foreign ministers said after a two-day meeting there should be less stress on security and more on political aspects of the conflict.]