Mr Obama's three-day visit to Israel and the West Bank is his first as president.
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Next door, in the West Bank, some Palestinians are living the high life in Ramallah.
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.
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.
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.
Benny Gantz convened top military officials Saturday night to discuss escalating tensions in the West Bank.
He came with his brother to work in the West Bank a few months ago.
Similar rallies were held across the West Bank, East Jerusalem and even in the Gaza Strip.
Such people are often associated with the Jewish settler movement on the West Bank.
He also stepped through Israel and the West Bank with a fair degree of agility.
He was determined to effect a similar, unilateral withdrawal from parts of the West Bank .
At Birzeit University in the West Bank, political science students are discussing the implications.
Intelligence sources say that in 1992 they had a visitor from the West Bank.
During the first Arab-Israeli war in 1948 Ben-Gurion forbade the army to conquer the West Bank.
In Hebron, also in the West Bank, an entrepreneur has opened the city's first luxury hotel.
Not far from Jericho, the River Jordan squiggles through the desert dividing the West Bank from Jordan.
He will spend two days in Israel and a just a few hours in the West Bank.
Abbas' rival Fatah controls the West Bank and has been engaged in the peace process with Israel.
President Bush went to Muqata'a, the headquarters of the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah in the West Bank.
Those arrested, in overnight raids all over the West Bank, included three members of the Palestinian parliament.
The Palestinians' interpretation of Oslo envisaged the three redeployments amounting to some 85% of the West Bank.
But this is no longer how younger Fatah activists in the West Bank and Gaza see things.
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