Results for “West Bank”

…in the Sinai, on the Golan, in the bitter battle to capture Jerusalem, or amid the olive-green hills and valleys of the West Bank — we had to accept that, at most, we’d been freelance support troops. Or mere spectators. But while it would be many years before this was openly ackn...

…new that the soldiers’ “misunderstanding” was all too understandable. As I acknowledged to the inquiry, the army on the West Bank and Gaza was predisposed to see Palestinians who were carrying weapons as potential terrorists, especially since the outbreak of the intifada. The set...

… beginning of January 2003, they murdered 145 men, women and children. It would not be until two years’ later, with the West Bank fence in place and a range of other security measures, that the attacks, and the deaths, were finally brought down dramatically. The Labor Party had...

…r Seder in a hotel dining room in Netanya. Arik hit back two days later with Israel’s largest military operation on the West Bank since 1967. Israeli forces retook major Palestinian towns, placed Arafat under de facto siege in his headquarters in Ramallah and imposed curfews and...

…t relations had only worsened, since his death in 2004, between the Fatah old guard in the Palestinian Authority on the West Bank and the Hamas overlords in Gaza. I doubted very much that Abu Mazen would want to get involved. I did send an aide to see him to ask whether, in princ...

… there’s 50% really under employment of people in the United States, which is probably the most advanced economy in the West, and it gets worse in Europe. I think in Spain it’s something like 50 or 60% of the youth under 30 are underemployed. And that means the decade of their t...

…ading to a situation where, after the final Wye redeployments, Arafat would have control over the great majority of the West Bank without having to commit to any of the assurances that even most on the Israeli left would define as the minimum required for peace. Now, of course, w...

… Donald know?” asked a skeptical Ailes. Bannon smiled—as though almost with a wink—and continued: “Let Jordan take the West Bank, let Egypt take Gaza. Let them deal with it. Or sink trying. The Saudis are on the brink, Egyptians are on the brink, all scared to death of Persia .....

…Under an agreement with France, the Ottoman province of Syria was divided into two parts on a line roughly running east-west between the sea and Mount Hermon. The northern part was given to France and divided into Lebanon and a rump Syria entity. The southern part was given to Br...

…remarkable liberties in describing what is claimed to be the law to Court. For example, the Response quotes Calloway v. Westinghouse Elec. Corp., 115 F.R.D. 73, 74 (M.D. Ga. 1987) for the proposition that “a witness’ interest in his reputation alone . . . does not constitute the...

…provisions were based. The endpoint was pretty clear, just as it had been at Camp David: Palestinian authority over the West Bank and Gaza, defined as a 261 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011732

…tacts. At first, even Peres was skeptical that the paper agreed at the “seminar” — calling for international aid to the West Bank and Gaza on the scale of the Marshall Plan, and an initial Israeli withdrawal limited to Gaza — would lead to serious negotiations. But Rabin authoriz...

…Israel coming from America anymore. No wonder settlers now boast on op-ed pages that the game is over, they've won, the West Bank will remain with Israel forever — and they don't care what absorbing all of its Palestinians will mean for Israel's future as a Jewish democracy. It i...

… instance, that we couldn’t “risk” taking the initiative required to disentangle ourselves from the Palestinians on the West Bank. “I don’t get you,” I said, turning to Lieberman as well. “Your rhetoric suggests you have spines of steel. But your behavior is living proof of the o...

…leaders here are likely to lose their jobs. The hospital supply crisis is a direct result of tensions with Fatah in the West Bank, which has kept the supplies from being shipped here. Efforts by fringe Islamist groups to challenge Hamas have had little effect. And it has been a...