Will there be a barrier to the east of the West Bank as well as to the west?
Israeli settlement-building would make a viable Palestinian state ever harder to achieve: this summer Israel, ignoring its own road-map obligations, announced plans to increase the number of settlers in the Jordan Valley, in the east of the West Bank, by 50% in one year.
For example, when the Bank of England began to tighten slightly its oversight of Moscow Narodny Bank in London after 1986, the USSR simply moved at least a portion of its more risque banking activities to Eurobank in Paris and East-West United Bank in Luxembourg where regulatory officials were more laissez-faire.
For example, when the Bank of England began to tighten slightly its oversight of Moscow Narodny Bank in London after 1986, the USSR simply moved at least a portion of its more risque banking activities to Eurobank in Paris and East-West United Bank in Luxembourg -- where regulatory officials were more laissez-faire.
Israelis and Arabs approve and deplore the decision for the same reason: the new town, to be called Har Homa, would complete the ring of Jewish-only estates that divide Arab East Jerusalem from its West Bank hinterland, making it extremely hard to see how East Jerusalem could ever be the capital of a Palestinian state.
Many of them live in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, some almost within sight of their former homes.
The settlement of more 3, 500 apartments would close one of the last open spaces between east Jerusalem and the West Bank.
Israel announced its building plans for the "E1" area between East Jerusalem and the West Bank a day after the UN's decision.
Israeli policies in occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank were a constant source of tension with the Obama administration and European allies.
That consistently growing presence in East Jerusalem and the West Bank has caused great tension between Israel and the Arab world, including the Palestinians.
On Thursday, Issawi was convicted of breaching his release conditions by travelling from his home in East Jerusalem to the West Bank, his lawyer said.
This morning Pasadena, CA based regional bank East West Bancorp ( EWBC) reported second quarter earnings that saw the company swing to a profit.
He struggled tirelessly in the courts for years even while recognising that successive Israeli governments, determined to establish possession of vital parts of East Jerusalem and the West Bank, were not listening.
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The protest camp -- consisting of chanting activists and tents dotting an otherwise barren hilltop -- sprung up due to Israel's recently announced plans to build 3, 000 housing units in East Jerusalem and the West Bank.
If we add to the mix Syrian subversion and sponsorship of Hamas, and al-Qaida penetration of Jordan through Iraq - particularly in the event of a US withdrawal - the danger that merging the west and east bank populations would manifest to the Hashemite regime becomes apparent.
The summoning of Israeli ambassadors to the foreign ministries in London, Paris and Stockholm may be only the opening phase in the diplomatic crisis prompted by Israel's decision to build some 3, 000 housing units in East Jerusalem and the West Bank, as well as plans to push ahead with construction between Jerusalem and the settlement town of Maale Adumim.
Israel enraged Palestinians on Wednesday when the government approved the first stage of plans to build 6, 500 housing units on Jabal Abu Ghneim, known by Israelis as Har Homa, in east Jerusalem on land captured by Israel along with the West Bank in the 1967 Middle East war.
Similar rallies were held across the West Bank, East Jerusalem and even in the Gaza Strip.
Peace talks have been stalled over construction in the West Bank and east Jerusalem.
Israel captured these territories in the 1967 war and still occupies the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
Palestinians refuse to resume negotiations unless Israel stops building settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
In the 1967 war, Israel took control of the West Bank, east Jerusalem, Gaza Strip, Sinai and Golan Heights.
About 500, 000 Jews live in more than 100 settlements built since the occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
Obama has already been hurt by his obsessive focus on a settlements freeze in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.
About 500, 000 Jews live in more than 100 settlements built since the 1967 occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
It then built residential colonies for Jews which, together with their linking roads, became fortresses between the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
He refuses to resume negotiations with Israel without a total freeze of settlement building both in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
About 500, 000 Jews live in the West Bank and East Jerusalem settlements, which are illegal under international law, among 2.5 million Palestinians.
Close to 500, 000 Jews live in more than 100 settlements built since Israel's 1967 occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
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