On the West Bank today, Israeli troops shot dead a senior leader of the group Islamic Jihad.
An additional 550 units are to be built in other settlements in the West Bank.
Mr Obama's three-day visit to Israel and the West Bank is his first as president.
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Israeli settlements in the West Bank are considered illegal under international law, although Israel disputes this.
Next door, in the West Bank, some Palestinians are living the high life in Ramallah.
Israel would recognise a Palestinian state and pull back from another slice of the West Bank.
Now, Israel proposes to turn over nearly all the West Bank to our terrorist enemies.
On Thursday President Obama will visit the West Bank to meet Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
They will surely present an Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank as a major Israeli defeat.
As noted above, these areas will comprise some 5-10 percent of the West Bank.
Both Israel and Abbas, whose Palestinian Authority is based in the West Bank, are opposed.
Settler extremists in the West Bank have torched Palestinian fields and attacked Palestinian cars with rocks.
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The power base for Abbas, a U.S. ally, is anchored firmly in the West Bank.
Iran has seeded Southern Lebanon, the Gaza Strip, and the West Bank with millions of missiles.
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Meanwhile, Bar-Ilan is criticised for supporting a college in "an illegal settlement" in the West Bank.
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Criminal gangs rule parts of the West Bank and the unpopular PA has nearly fallen apart.
At first, Israeli police denied that stones had caused the car crash in the West Bank.
But many of Turkey's complaints, such as over settlement-building in the West Bank, are hardly controversial.
The strike follows days of clashes between Israeli forces and Palestinian protesters in the West Bank.
Today, more than a quarter-million Israelis live in the West Bank, not including East Jerusalem.
Beginning in the mid-1970s, they began building Jewish settlements all over the West Bank.
In the West Bank, Israel confiscated large chunks of agricultural land where settlements were eventually built.
Obama stressed the challenges for peace posed by Jewish settlements in the West Bank.
Fatah and the Palestinian Authority, led by Abbas, now govern only part of the West Bank.
Obama leaves Tuesday evening for a trip to Israel, the West Bank and Jordan.
No one knows whether following up on the West Bank formed part of his thinking.
His Fatah movement, based in the West Bank, is deeply split from Hamas, which governs Gaza.
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Meanwhile, former Palestinian prisoners have been arriving back in Gaza and the West Bank.
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While overseas, Obama will also visit the West Bank and Jordan, the White House said.
The only explanation is that they want to decrease the Palestinian population in the West Bank.
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