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French gunman visited occupied West Bank in 2010
Suspect in the killing of 3 paratroopers, 3 jew children and a rabbi in recent days, Mohamed Merah AP French gunman visited occupied West Bank in 2010 Today at 19:48 | ReutersJERUSALEM – The French gunman who went on a killing spree in a Jewish school in France last week travelled from Jordan to the Israel-occupied West Bank in 2010, an Israeli security official said. The official did not say why Mohamed Merah had made the trip or whether he had also visited Israel, which is next to the West Bank.
March 26, 2012
Tags: a-killing-spree, a-shoe-bomb, a-short-drive, france, french, Israel, israeli, Jewish, jordan, mohamed-merah, school, trip, west Posted in: West Bank 
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Israel cuts ties with UN human rights body
Israel has said it has severed contacts with the UN Human Rights Council afterthe group’slaunch last week of an international investigation into Jewish settlements in the West Bank. The decision, announced by a foreign ministry spokesman on Monday, meant that the fact-finding team the council planned to send to the West Bank will not be allowed to enter the territory or Israel, saidspokesman Yigal Palmor.
March 26, 2012
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Israeli court rejects West Bank settlement clearance delay
The Israeli government submitted the delay petition earlier this month, seeking to bypass the High Court’s earlier order to dismantle the Migron outpost by March 31 because it was built on privately held Palestinian land. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has scrambled to find a solution that would satisfy both settlers and the court.
March 26, 2012
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Israel severs UN rights contact
Israel has severed contacts with the UN Human Rights Council after its launch last week of an international investigation into Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank.
March 26, 2012
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Palestinian Authority beset by economic woes and public disapproval
RAMALLAH, West Bank Even as attempts to end the Israeli occupation have idled in recent years, Palestinians and their international backers have hailed the West Banks expanding economy as one critical step on the path to statehood. Now the Palestinian Authority is mired in financial crisis, and there is a growing sentiment here that economic development efforts intended to lay the groundwork for independence have backfired.
March 26, 2012
Tags: centered-on-the, groundwork, Israel, israeli, money, palestinian, palestinians, prime-minister, salam-fayyad, salary, security Posted in: West Bank Comments Closed
Israel bars United Nations Human Rights Council from West Bank
Israel’s foreign minister, Danny Ayalon, told an Israeli radio station that a United Nations Human Rights Council fact finding mission would not be permitted to enter the country. The group planned to investigate whether Israeli settlements violate the human rights of Palestinians, the Jerusalem Post reported. The country also cut off relations with the rights body; Haaretz reported Ayalon ordered the Israeli United Nations ambassador in Geneva to “ignore phone calls from the commissioner,” Navi Pillay.
March 26, 2012
Tags: accuses-accuses, another-article, australian, commissioner-, council, danny-ayalon, geneva, human-rights, Israel, Jerusalem, jerusalem-post, rights, rights-council, says-it-does, united-nations Posted in: West Bank Comments Closed
Israeli court rejects 2015 evacuation
Israeli court rejects 2015 evacuation The Israeli Supreme Court has rejected the state’s request to postpone dismantling a large, unsanctioned West Bank settler enclave until late 2015, dealing a serious blow to settler hopes to keep dozens of rogue outposts standing. The Sunday ruling could ignite a violent showdown with settlers, who have vowed in the past not to abandon their hilltop stronghold, Migron. Settler leader Shimon Riklin, one of the enclave’s founders, told Israel’s Channel 2 TV that the evacuation of Migron ‘would not pass quietly’
March 26, 2012
Tags: 2015-evacuation, a-text-message, evacuation, government, Israel, migron-settler, month, palestinians, settler-enclave, state Posted in: West Bank Comments Closed
Israeli court rejects 2015 settlement evacuation
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: The Israeli Supreme Court has rejected the state’s request to postpone dismantling a large, unsanctioned West Bank settler enclave until late 2015, dealing a serious blow to settler hopes to keep dozens of rogue outposts standing. The Sunday ruling could ignite a violent showdown with settlers, who have vowed in the past not to abandon their hilltop stronghold, Migron.
March 26, 2012
Tags: a-serious-blow, court, evacuation, Israel, israeli-supreme, migron-settler, month, palestinians, ruling Posted in: West Bank Comments Closed
Israeli Supreme Court rejects deal delaying demolition of illegal Migron settlement
Israels Supreme Court has rejected a deal struck between the government and Jewish settlers which would have delayed the dismantling of the illegal West Bank outpost of Migron until 2015.
March 25, 2012
Tags: a-deal-struck, a-difficult-and, a-half-years, a-week-away, court, dismantling, government, homes, illegal, israels-supreme, Jewish, lawyer, settler-, settlers, unauthorized Posted in: West Bank Comments Closed
Christians Called To Serve Jewish Settlers
Evangelicals Volunteer on West Bank Because the Bible Says So nathan jeffay Shared Supper: Evangelical Christians share a meal with Jewish hosts at an Israeli settlement on the West Bank. Psagot, West Bank It is a typical, even stereotypical, West Bank settlement scene: bearded young men pruning vines while enthusing about the Chosen Peoples God-given right to this region.
March 25, 2012
Tags: a-meal-with, establishment, international, israeli, jesus, mountains, palestinians, samaria, settlers, work Posted in: West Bank Comments Closed
Palestinian PM says freed US aid to help ease crisis
Palestinian PM says freed US aid to help ease crisis RAMALLAH, West Bank, Mar 24 (Reuters) Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said today the release of 88.6 million dollar in development funds by US lawmakers would help ease a fiscal crisis in the aid-dependant Palestinian economy. ‘This is very important in order to help us deal with the economic crisis,’ Fayyad told reporters in Ramallah. In August Republican lawmakers put a hold on $147 million in US assistance because they objected to a Palestinian push for recognition at the United Nations, arguing that Palestinian statehood should be achieved through peace talks with Israel
March 24, 2012
Tags: a-fiscal-crisis, budget-deficit-, ileana-ros-, international, palestinian, palestinians, prime-minister, projected-2012, salam-fayyad, states-as-well, united, very-important Posted in: West Bank Comments Closed
West Bank Jewish Minor Charged In ‘Price Tag’ Attack
A Jewish minor from the West Bank was charged with a price tag attack in a Palestinian village. According to an indictment filed Thursday, the minor and several others in February set fire to cars and a home in the Palestinian village of Nabi Elias and spray-painted the words Price Tag on a wall near the attack
March 24, 2012
Tags: a-price-tag, a-wall-near, attack, from-the-west, jerusalem-post, Jewish, minor-indicted, thursday, vandalism Posted in: West Bank Comments Closed
Israel's Settlement Crisis: It's Not Too Late for a Two-State Solution
Which settlements would be excluded from Israel if Palestine gains statehood?
March 23, 2012
Tags: a-few-examples, beyond-the-1967, borders-, impediments, Israel, Jewish, leaving-out-the, west Posted in: West Bank Comments Closed
Israel's Settlement Crisis: It's Not Late for a Two-State Solution
Which settlements would be excluded from Israel if Palestine gains statehood? A Jewish settler walks near temporary homes in the West Bank / Reuters The reason I say “between 70 and 80 percent” is because how many settlers you want to include within Israel’s new borders depends on how far from the 1967 lines you want to extend those new borders — essentially, what you would define as a viable and contiguous Palestinian state (which is a subjective metric). For example, the Geneva Initiative, a model Israeli-Palestinian civil society accord, proposes relatively minimal annexation in the West Bank (most notably leaving out the large Israeli settlements of Ariel and Efrat), totaling 2.2 percent of the West Bank; this which would include 71 percent of the Israelis living there
March 23, 2012
Tags: a-few-examples, a-wider-swath, beyond-the-1967, israelis, Jewish, leaving-out-the, maaleh-adumim, maps-, palestinian, peace, peace-possible, university, west Posted in: West Bank Comments Closed
Scarred landscape reveals its peaceful face
A walker in Wadi Auja, near Jericho in the Israel-occupied West Bank.
March 23, 2012
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UN rights council launches investigation into Israeli settlements
The UN rights council has adopted a resolution condemning Israeli settlement policy in the West Bank, promising to launch an investigation. Israel’s prime minister, meanwhile, has called the resolution ‘hypocritical.’ The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHCR) voted on Thursday overwhelmingly in favor of an investigation into the expansion of Israeli settlements in the Palestinian West Bank territory. The text of the resolution, introduced by Pakistan on behalf of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), condemned Israel’s planned construction of new housing units for Jewish settlers in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, saying they undermined the peace process.
March 23, 2012
Tags: a-later-date, china, council, hear-the-syrian, human-rights, italy, Jewish, organization, palestinian, peace, syrian, the-resolution, united-nations, west Posted in: West Bank Comments Closed
Settlement Boycott Call Likely To Fall Flat
Trouble With Beinart’s Plan: There’s Not Much to Boycott By Nathan Guttman Published March 22, 2012, issue of March 30, 2012. Washington By most standards, SodaStream is a great Israeli success story. The companys product, a home carbonating device for soft drinks, is sold by all major retailers in the United States
March 22, 2012
Tags: a-kibbutz-built, activist, beinart, green, Israel, Jewish, numbers, west Posted in: West Bank Comments Closed
World Bank calls on Israel to ease West Bank restrictions
JERUSALEM: The World Bank warned Monday that continued economic growth in the occupied West Bank would depend on Israel taking further steps to lift restrictions on movement.
March 22, 2012
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West Bank shorts added to L.A. Israel Film Festival
Los Angeles March 21, 2012 By Jonah Lowenfeld Chaotic In a small Israeli jail cell, a 17-year-old settler hears the air raid siren that signals the beginning of the Sabbath.
March 21, 2012
Tags: a-student-short, ariel, ariel-regional, hands-the-young, lighter, little-surprise, performing, shown-on-march, traditional, west Posted in: West Bank Comments Closed
UN REPORT: Israeli Settlers Are Taking Over A Main Palestinian Water Supply
Israeli settlers have taken over at least 30 springs across the West Bank and made them inaccessible to Palestinians, according to a U.N. report and reported by AFP.
March 20, 2012
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Palestinians are up to ears in debt
RAMALLAH, West Bank _ Ayman and Rahma abu Hussein can’t help but feel they are moving up in the world. The database engineer and his wife just bought their first home, and it’s large enough for both of their children to have their own rooms. There’s a Hyundai parked outside and a flat-panel TV hangs in the living room, one of many new appliances decking out the place
March 20, 2012
Tags: a-renter-and, availability, cars, children, combined-income, credit-on-the, decking-out-the, Israel, last, living--, over-the-last, palestinian, west Posted in: West Bank Comments Closed
Jewish settlers limit Palestinian access to water sources: U.N
NABI SALEH, West Bank: Jewish settlers have seized dozens of natural springs in the occupied West Bank, barring Palestinians or limiting their access to scarce water sources, a United Nations report said Monday. The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said it had surveyed 530 springs in the West Bank and found that 30, mostly in areas where Israel retains military control, were taken over by the settlers.
March 19, 2012
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UN report: settlers grabbing Palestinian water springs
By Jihan Abdalla, Reuters/Nabi Saleh, West Bank Jewish settlers have seized dozens of natural springs in the occupied West Bank, barring Palestinians or limiting their access to scarce water sources, a UN report said yesterday. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said it had surveyed 530 springs in the West Bank and found that 30, mostly in areas where Israel retains military control, were taken over by the settlers. It added that Palestinians currently had limited access to 26 other springs where settlers had moved in and threatened to take control
March 19, 2012
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Jewish settlers grabbing Palestinian water springs: UN report
NABI SALEH, West Bank Jewish settlers have seized dozens of natural springs in the occupied West Bank, barring Palestinians or limiting their access to scarce water sources, a United Nations report said on Monday. The UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said it had surveyed 530 springs in the West Bank and found that 30, mostly in areas where Israel retains military control, were taken over by the settlers. It added that Palestinians currently had limited access to 26 other springs where settlers had moved in and threatened to take control.
March 19, 2012
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Settlers grab Palestinian water springs
NABI SALEH, West Bank – Jewish settlers have seized dozens of natural springs in the occupied West Bank, barring Palestinians or limiting their access to scarce water sources, a United Nations report said on Monday.
March 19, 2012
Tags: a-spring-named, coordination, david-haivri, income, nariman-tamimi-, said-on-monday, settlements, settlers, springs--, united-nations Posted in: West Bank Comments Closed
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