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Article: West Bank land grab: Israel forges ahead with settlement expansion and dooms any prospect of peace accord.(CURRENT AFFAIRS)
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- The Middle East
- Article date:
- June 1, 2008
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AS US PRESIDENT George W. Bush, faced with doom and gloom over Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and a host of other foreign policy blunders, belatedly turns his administration's attention to the Arab-Israeli conflict in the desperate hope of notching up one success before his two-term tenure expires in January 2009, the decades-old issue of Jewish settlements in the West Bank is likely to deny him the accolades he seeks.
The Israelis are determined to hold onto their heavily guarded colonies across what they call Judea and Samaria, the biblical regions Jewish zealots insist was bequeathed to them by God; so the settlement question is likely to prove to be as intractable ...