West Bank

1. Amiry proves that the stereotypes of the Israeli and Palestinian people are misguided. Salim, Suad's husband, treats her very well. The same goes for many other Palestinian husbands. Suad is an educated architect. Despite that stereotype that Israeli and Palestinian’s hate each other, the book proves that not to be the case. Suad takes an Israeli man to the hospital due to a heart attack proving that compassion, at times, can override territories. She chooses an Israeli vet for her dog, Nura.

The unemployment rate is 46 percent and 38 percent and of the populace is beneath the poverty line. In particularly helpless zones in the West Bank, kids experience provocation and brutality from officers and the pilgrims. On account of devastations, they likewise experience the ill effects of absence of satisfactory instruction offices. Large portions of them additionally regularly bear long commutes to their schools because of the construction of settler bypass roads. Home annihilations and removals

Israel has made travel between major Palestinian population centers (Jenin, Nablus, Ramallah, Bethlehem, and Hebron) in the West Bank easier over the last several years. Several major checkpoints in the West Bank that restricted direct movement between and into these cities have been removed or modified. However, in general this opening is less the result of an overall easing in movement restrictions than the result of the institutionalization of movement controls into a formal and permanent regime

One State, Two States Few, if any, modern conflicts are as complex as the Arab-Israeli conflict. Specifically, the political situation in the West Bank and Gaza Strip has led to bloodshed, political high wire acts, and cycles of hope and disappointment for decades. Consensus has generally leaned towards advocated a two-state solution for the conflict, in which the Israel remains a Jewish state, and the Palestinian Arabs establish their own country carved from currently Israeli-occupied territories

of 1967, Israel has occupied the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the Palestinian economy has become extremely dependent on the richer economy of Israel. Many thought that the signing of the Oslo accords in 1993 would relieve the constraints on the growth of Palestinians would be removed since peace would give them the opportunity to implement their own economic priorities. However, because of the second Intifada, the retraction of the peace process brought West Bank and Gaza Strip to a worse condition

Little did Israel know that the Six Day War would turn into a fifty year occupation of Gaza and the West Bank? During this occupation the Israeli Government placed settlement and settlers in the disputed territory for the purpose of keeping a buffer between Israel and the Palestinians as well as using the settlements and settlers as a means to keeping Gaza and the West Bank. During 2005 the Israeli government began removing settlers and turning the land back over to the Palestinian’s with the thought

Year Land Size West Bank Share (%) 1967 527 9.3 1973 700 12.4 1984 1800 31.9 1993 2500 44.3 1995 2557 45.3 1998 2729 48.4 2000 2760 48.9 Source: The 1967, 1973 and 1984 data-points are from Benvenisti and Khayat (1988). The 1993 datapoint is from Maariv, Jan 22, 1993 and B’Tselem (1997). The 1995, 1998, and 2000 data points are based on Ha’aretz, Jul 20, 2000 and Isaac and Ghanyem (2001). The shares data are computed based on the West Bank land area of 5640 km2 (World Fact-Book, 2001). Israeli

name of the organization which I work for is called Bank of the West and is a subsidiary bank of BNP Paribas. This financial institution can be found all over the west coast of the United States. In the state of New Mexico there are about 20 branches and 15 of them are located in the city of Albuquerque. The organization itself has about 10,000 employees; however, the branch that I work at has a total of 13 employees. The structure of the bank has always been hierarchical, yet now days it has become

Palestinian autonomy or eventual independence. The First Intifada took place on the 8th of December 1987. This protest was against Israeli’s occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem. At the crowded checkpoint Israeli truck swerved and killed four The Palestinians. Palestinians in revenge swept across the Gaza Strip, spread to the World Bank and set into motion a blaze of nationalist resistance to occupation. Intifada began unpredictably spontaneous actions such as stone-throwing were happening

likes of Congo, Cuba and Jordan. Despite Israel’s booming economy, high life expectancy and low unemployment, part of the explanation for its low FSI ranking is the West Bank. According to the Fund for Peace’s methodology, Israel/West Bank is considered one entity when determining its Failed States Index score. The issues Israel/ West Bank scored highest on the FIS were; external intervention (8), factionalized elites (8), human rights (8), group grievance (9.3), and refugees (8). Other sources of Israel's