Results for “West Bank”

…o security reason to say no. We ended up arranging a direct source of fuel supply to Jenin, on the northern edge of the West Bank, and built new terminals to handle it. We facilitated construction permits for a new industrial zone. For a conference of international economists and...

…ieberman. He was never going to accept a settlement freeze. Not only did his heart, and political interests, lie on the West Bank. He lived there. But like many in the party he led, he had come to Israel from the former Soviet Union, shaping a worldview that in many ways remained...

… peace with the Palestinians, if and when it came, would require us not just to withdraw from the great majority of the West Bank, but to find a formula for sharing power in Jerusalem. Many Israelis still believed that was a price too high, and not just Likudniks. A couple of wee...

…of the state. But the political divisions over the war in Lebanon, and morale-sapping need to quell the violence on the West Bank and in Gaza had further strained our unity of purpose. Militarily, we were now indisputably strong enough to defeat any of the Arab armies, even if t...

…tinians at the time. The local population had, after all, been under other occupation powers before 1967: Jordan in the West Bank, and Egypt in Gaza. Assuming our administration was less onerous, most Israelis believed a way to coexist could be found. And that sooner or later, th...

…become flagships of the settlement movement, were the start of Jewish colonization in Samaria, the northern part of the West Bank. The previous year, as a young reporter, I interviewed Peres, after he and his political ally Moshe Dayan had refused “on principle” to join the gover...

…ence by Israeli Jews against Arabs in some areas. President Clinton tried his best to help us halt the violence on the West Bank and in Gaza. I doubted the Americans would succeed, but was fully ready to join in their efforts to try. About ten days into the new intifada, I atten...

…ck to rate__ Rating 450 Report abuse Why do we find the lives of these people? REPUBLIC NOW! - Newell Fisher, Lancing West Sussex, 27/2/2011 15:42 Click to rate __ Rating 260 Report abuse | was truly disgusted having read this article. Although sadly not surprised, | wonder w...

…try to help break the siege there, and the division of Jerusalem at the end of the war, leaving us with only its newer, western half. And while I may not have read the Torah in the same way as a religiously observant Jew, the meaning of Jerusalem was no less powerful for me. It w...

…stinians. The sobering conclusion had been delivered to me six months earlier: plans were well underway by cells in the West Bank and Gaza for armed attacks against Israeli soldiers and terror strikes inside Israel. “It’s like two families living in the same house, and it’s on fi...

…ot Labor, people who would be there mainly to criticize him for not going far, or quickly, enough in pulling out of the West Bank. In the end, he was persuaded it should go ahead. In fact, by the time the date approached — Saturday evening, November 4 — he seemed to be feeling m...

…ad for Israeli civilians NETS > ® r Israeli early warning station Oalqiliya Ren £\ Mountain i sy , $ i aS Tel Aviv, H ‘ West f 1 T Bank % | 32°— 32° Baal oe Ramla Pitesor nN 2 Ramallah av? ° \ yet yo ) Zz met! lg a) / \e Oo Ashgelony im \ \ \ Lge \ EGYPT \ Atlas of Israel” (Sur...

… signed on April 27. This agreement, unless and until it collapses, makes Israeli concessions or new flexibility in the West Bank impossible and puts paid to the entire “peace process.” It brings Hamas into the Palestinian Authority government, ending a period of several years wh...

…rent, meandering path. But even though Bibi had slowed it down, that would inevitably mean Israel handing back yet more West Bank land to Arafat — in return for familiar, but still unfulfilled and untested, verbal assurances that he wanted peace. Each successive Israeli withdrawa...

…Palestinians. Steps that each could take to move towards each other (e.g. Israel offers money to any settler who leaves West bank. Iran TJP summary. Discussions suggest that it is more likely than not that there will be a military attack on Iran in next 18 months. That is going...