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's West Bank pullout won't bring Palestinian state any time soon

AP Worldstream;  March 29, 2006 ;     700+ words ......of 250,000 Jewish settlers out of the West Bank. But in the absence of negotiations with...includes holding onto large swaths of West Bank territory housing tens of thousands of...Israel will be in close contact with West Bank settlers to find them alternative housing...

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...

WEST BANK: PROTESTS, MEDIA PRESSURE LEAD ISRAEL TO LIFT CURFEW

Inter Press Service English News Wire;  July 8, 2008 ;     700+ words ......lifted its curfew in the central West Bank village of Ni'ilin on Tuesday morning, following...separates Israel proper from the West Bank -- and is now dividing farmers...building on Palestinian land in the West Bank, designated as part of a future...

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...

'West Bank First': It Won't Work

The Washington Post;  June 19, 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...

'Sheriff' of West Bank may rule lawless land.(Originated from...

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  April 30, 1995 ;     700+ words ......man people call the Godfather of the West Bank hunched forward in his black leather...oversee? How can they operate throughout a West Bank officially ruled by Israeli troops? And...de facto police chief of most of the West Bank. And that is a startling fact. The Israeli...

Troops, Jewish extremists face off in West Bank in last pullout...

AP Worldstream;  August 23, 2005 ;     700+ words ......Writer AP Worldstream 08-23-2005 Dateline: SANUR, West Bank Troops surrounded two West Bank settlements where about 2,000 extremists were...ready to storm Sanur and Homesh in the northern West Bank at dawn Tuesday, with orders to remove the few...