Israel to start work on electronic fence aimed at stopping militants

AP Worldstream;  June 16, 2002 ;     700+ words ......crossing into Israel from the West Bank. Palestinians and right-wing...strong opposition to the electronic fence, which will run 115 kilometers...000 Jewish settlers in the West Bank on the far side. At a meeting...have been launched from the West Bank, which has no ...

West Bank Politics Supplanted by More Immediate Worry-Money

The Washington Post;  August 14, 1988 ;     700+ words ......city of 24,000 in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. His trips to Europe and the United States...development funds from Jordan. Not every West Bank mayor has been as favored as Freij, who...Palestine Liberation Organization. But West Bank ties to Amman are more than just monetary...

Israel starts work on electronic fence aimed at stopping militants

AP Worldstream;  June 16, 2002 ;     700+ words ......Sunday for a controversial electronic fence that is aimed at halting...crossing into Israel from the West Bank. Palestinians and right-wing...000 Jewish settlers in the West Bank on the far side. At a meeting...have been launched from the West Bank, which has no barrier ...

FEATURE: SAFETY, DANGER OF WEST BANK FENCE

United Press International;  October 4, 2002 ;     700+ words ......Safety, danger of West Bank fence QAFFIN, West Bank, Oct 04, 2002...a northwestern West Bank town, for some...erecting between the West Bank and Israel to prevent...begin -- on the West Bank side -- with several...a path, and an electronic ...

Palestine forced to live in a harsh, split reality; The West Bank and Gaza...

The Sunday Independent (South Africa);  March 18, 2007 ;     700+ words ......of video-conferencing equipment in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the separate parts of...classrooms, offices and committee rooms in the West Bank they can no longer visit. “...has severed this coastal strip from the West Bank. The Palestinians have fractured politically...

Military plans electronic fence in West Bank sector after summer pullout

AP Worldstream;  February 13, 2005 ;     274 words ......military plans to position an electronic fence in the northern West Bank after this summer's planned...Gaza and four in the northern West Bank as part of its "disengagement...the evacuated part of the West Bank to the rest of the territory...

Facts and figures about Israel's West Bank fence

AP Worldstream;  July 2, 2002 ;     181 words ......for about 110 kilometers (70 miles), from outside the West Bank city of Jenin to a point northeast of Tel Aviv. A 50...also going up around Jerusalem to cut it off from the West Bank. --- STAGES: The fence will be built in three or four...the Defense Ministry. Most of the barrier will be an ...

West Bank in N.O.'s new banking branches reinforces emergence as hotspot...

New Orleans CityBusiness;  January 21, 2008 ;     700+ words ......of new banking branches reinforces the West Bank's emergence as a hotspot for growth and...a lot of commerce flowing through the West Bank of Jefferson Parish and banks want to...building or opening new branches on the West Bank the past two years, the area is fertile...

Settlers at a loss on how to stop West Bank pullback

AP Online;  December 6, 1998 ;     700+ words ......Writer AP Online 12-06-1998 SHILO, West Bank _ After another day of meetings on trying to halt Israel's West Bank troop withdrawal, settler leader Aharon...the right of Israelis to live in the West Bank are talking of just preserving as much...

West Bank wary of Jordan move

Chicago Sun-Times;  August 1, 1988 ;     540 words ......Hussein's decision Sunday to separate the occupied West Bank from Jordan and transfer responsibility for its...half of whose members are Palestinians from the West Bank, and said West Bank Palestinians no longer would be included in its...

West Bank checkpoints go high-tech; Disruptions would be eased for...

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  November 7, 2004 ;     700+ words ...West Bank checkpoints go high-tech Disruptions would be eased for Palestinians Qalqiliya, West Bank -- Checkpoint 107, its walls painted in...disrupting checkpoints deeper in the West Bank. However, Israel also intends to keep...

Israel establishes new permit system for travel between West Bank towns

AP Worldstream;  May 24, 2002 ;     700+ words ...00-00-0000 Dateline: BETHLEHEM, West Bank Israel is enforcing new restrictions in the West Bank requiring Palestinians to obtain permits...emergency measure _ military blockades of West Bank towns aimed at preventing Palestinian terror...

Israel Urged To Annex West Bank

The Washington Post;  August 4, 1988 ;     700+ words ......relinquish all claims to the Israeli-occupied West Bank he once ruled has revived the debate...law to Jewish settlement areas in the West Bank. But ministers from Foreign Minister...Party argued that any plan to annex the West Bank would saddle Israel with a "demographic...

'WEST BANK FIRST' WON'T WORK.(Editorial)(Column)

The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH);  June 21, 2007 ;     700+ words ......embracing another: Gaza is dead, long live the West Bank. This approach appears compelling. Flood the West Bank with money, boost Fatah security forces...Palestinian people, drawn to a recovering West Bank and repelled by the nightmare of an impoverished...

Rural West Bank doomed to poverty by Israeli closures: U.N.

Arab - American Business;  February 1, 2006 ;     538 words ...RAMALLAH, Occupied West Bank (AFP) - Poverty and unemployment in the rural Occupied West Bank are bound to increase unless Palestinians...Nations report said recently. The impact of the West Bank separation barrier and network of checkpoints...