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	Why War? Keywords: West Bank (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The West Bank or Judea and Samaria is the name of a region in Southwest Asia which is to the west of the Jordan River that was occupied by Israel in 1967, not including the Gaza Strip.
		The boundaries between the state of Israel and the West Bank are clearly defined and are consitutued by the area west of the river Jordan transferred to Jordania as a result of the 1949 Armistice Agreement which followed the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
		Annexation of the West Bank and assimilation of the Palestinian population to full-fledged Israeli citizens.
	www.why-war.com /encyclopedia/places/West_Bank (1709 words)

	West Bank - MSN Encarta
		The West Bank is currently under an interim system of government that was scheduled to end in May 1999, five years after Israel’s withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and Jericho.
		Meanwhile, the Arab population in the West Bank increased, and towns and villages expanded accordingly.
		The remaining Palestinian cities, towns, and refugee camps in the West Bank, with the exception of Hebron, were transferred to Palestinian administration in late 1995 and early 1996.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761557747_2/West_Bank.html (1827 words)

	West Bank Summary
		The West Bank is a landlocked territory on the west bank of the Jordan River in the Middle East.
		The borders of the West Bank were defined by the 1948 Arab-Israeli War armistice lines after the dissolution of the British mandate of Palestine, when it was captured and annexed by Jordan.
		Annexation of the West Bank and [[population transfertransfer] of part or all of the Palestinian population (a 2002 poll at the height of the Al Aqsa intifada found 46% of Israelis favoring Palestinian transfer[6]; in 2005 two polls using a different methodology put the number at approximately 30%).
	www.bookrags.com /West_Bank (3462 words)

	West Bank (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The term literally means 'the West bank of the river Jordan'; the Kingdom of Jordan being on the 'East bank' of this same river Jordan.
		The literacy rate among Palestinians in the West Bank (and Gaza) (89%) is third highest in the region after Israel (95%) and Jordan (90%) [23][24] [25].
		West Bank: Ariel (אריאל) • Beit Jala (بيت جالا/בית ג'אלה) • Betar Illit (ביתר עילית) • Bethlehem (بيت لحم/בית לחם) • Hebron (الخليل/חברון) • Jenin (جنين/ג'נין) • Jericho (أريحا/יריחו) • Jerusalem (القدس/יְרוּשָׁלַיִם) • Ma'ale Adummim (מעלה אדומים) • Nablus (نابلس/שׁכם) • Qalqilyah (قلقيلية/קלקיליה) • Ramallah (رام الله/רמאללה) • Salfit (سلفيت/סלפית) • Tulkarm (طولكرم/טול כרם)
	www.tocatch.info /en/West_Bank.htm (5618 words)

	Egypt: An Overview of the West Bank at Luxor (Ancient Thebes) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Indeed, the whole west bank is honeycombed with tombs, not just of the ancient Egyptian Kings, but of their families and the noblemen who served them.
		The west bank necropolis can be divided into a number of zones and sub-zones, of which the Valley of the Kings is only one zone.
		The northern sector of the west bank closest to the Nile River is often referred to as the Tombs of the Nobles, but it can be divided into about five different sub-zones.
	www.touregypt.net /featurestories/westbank.htm (1941 words)

	West Bank — FactMonster.com
		West Bank: People and Economy - People and Economy The population of the West Bank is composed primarily of Muslim Palestinian...
		West Bank: History - History The West Bank was declared part of Jordanian territory after Israel and Jordan signed...
		Bethlehem, town, West Bank - Bethlehem [Heb.,=house of bread or house of Lahm, a goddess], Arab.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/world/A0851886.html (199 words)

	How Oslo II Carves Up the West Bank
		The significant sections of Oslo II are those dealing with (1) the map, prepared by Israel, which outlines the preliminary division of the West Bank into Palestinian and Israeli areas, and (2) the arrangements for the redeployment of the Israeli army.
		Less than 30 percent of the West Bank has been conceded by Israel to be Palestinian areas, while 70 percent of the West Bank will remain in Israeli hands—at least in the initial stage of the redeployment.
		The final one-third of the Palestinians in the West Bank live outside Areas A and B. Civil affairs in areas A and B are to be administered by the Palestinian Council that will replace the present Palestinian Authority after the elections.
	www.washington-report.org /backissues/1295/9512017.html (1585 words)

	w - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
		The W on a weather vane stands for west.
		In biochemistry, W is the symbol for tryptophan.
		In the United Kingdom, W stands for West London.
	www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/w (664 words)

	University of Maine at Fort Kent - Valley Vision (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Bret Wallach, professor of geography at the University of Oklahoma, will visit UMFK the week of March 26 to speak with students and faculty and to conduct a community presentation on Tuesday, March 27, at 7:30 p.m.
		Wallach, who has been actively studying the political and cultural geography of the West Bank, will discuss the contemporary issues that have lead to the most recent conflict between the Israelis, the Palestinian National Authority and various paramilitary groups in the region.
		The West Bank, formerly part of Israel and now governed by the Palestinians, is an area slightly smaller than Delaware bordered to the west by Israel and to the east by Jordan.
	www.umfk.maine.edu /valleyvision/release/default.cfm?recordID=01051 (591 words)

	Geography
		Geography All The Way: This website is designed and maintained by Rich Allaway, teacher in charge of Geography at the International School of Toulouse (IST), France.
		Geography in Action: This website has sections on sand dune ecosystems, the urban structure of Belfast, the ethnic geography of Belfast and landscapes of Northern Ireland (including peat bogs and deciduous woodland).
		Geography in the News: This brand new site from the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) provides free learning resources, for teachers and students, focusing on the geography in and behind the news.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /REVgeography.htm (8737 words)

	USNews.com: Mortimer B. Zuckerman on the price of intransigence
		It reflects the geography of the West Bank, with its relatively short distances between major towns--literally, in some cases, a 15-minute walk or drive.
		Now, because they are prevented from striking in the northern part of the West Bank down to the coastal plain of Israel, the terrorists have been forced to shift their attacks south, toward Jerusalem.
		By creating the outline of a de facto Palestinian state in the West Bank, without requiring the Palestinians to cease terrorism, without requiring them to recognize Israel's right to exist, without their abandoning the use of the right of return--without formally ending this terrible conflict.
	www.usnews.com /usnews/opinion/articles/031215/15edit_3.htm (785 words)

	Geography of the West Bank and Gaza Strip - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Geography of the West Bank and Gaza Strip
		note: includes West Bank, Latrun Salient, and the northwest quarter of the Dead Sea, but excludes Mount Scopus; East Jerusalem and Jerusalem No man's land are also included only as a means of depicting the entire area occupied by Israel in 1967
		Geography - note: landlocked; highlands are main recharge area for Israel's coastal aquifers; there are 231 Israeli settlements and civilian land use sites in the West Bank and 29 in East Jerusalem (August 1999 est.)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Geography_of_the_West_Bank (378 words)

	London Review of Books December 14 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Even Yasser Arafat has to ask permission to leave or enter the West Bank or Gaza, where his airport is opened and closed at will by the Israelis, and his headquarters have been bombed punitively by missiles fired from helicopter gunships.
		In 'The Camp David Fraud' (13 July), she writes that the Palestinians were offered 50 per cent of the West Bank in separated cantons; 10 per cent was to be annexed by Israel and no less than 40 per cent was to be left 'under debate', to use the euphemism for continued Israeli control.
		During these days of strict internal restriction of movement in the West Bank, one can see how carefully each road was planned: so that 200,000 Jews have freedom of movement and about three million Palestinians are locked into their Bantustans until they submit to Israeli demands.
	www.zmag.org /saidlrb.htm (4924 words)

	Fencing the Last Sky
		In November 2000, Barak accordingly approved the construction in the West Bank of “a barrier to prevent the passage of motor vehicles” that initially was to stretch from Jenin in the north to the Latrun salient in the south.
		Most starkly, Palestinian East Jerusalem, once the political, economic, and cultural center of the West Bank, is entirely swallowed by a subsection of phase A, its constituent neighborhoods and villages being absorbed as isolated urban ghettos within Israeli Greater Jerusalem.
		Writ large, this spatial reshuffle guts the primary administrative linkages of the West Bank, deforms the municipal space of almost all its main cities, and alienates much of the existing infrastructure linking its main population centers.
	www.americantaskforce.org /lagerquist.htm (10489 words)

	Jerusalem - West Bank - Gaza - Country Profile
		The West Bank fell under the control of Jordan and the Gaza Strip under Egypt.
		In 1967 Israel occupied the West Bank and East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip.
		By the early 90's the suffering in Gaza and the West Bank and changing international political dynamics led to the Oslo Peace Process which handed over autonomous areas to Palestinians and provided a framework for final status negotiations of issues such as Palestinian statehood and other outstanding issues.
	www.wvi.org /wvi/country_profile/profiles/jwbg.htm (1233 words)

	Palestinian economy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Economic conditions in the West Bank - where economic activity is governed by the Paris Economic Protocol of April 1994 between Israel and the Palestinian Authority - have deteriorated since the early 1990s.
		Real per capita GDP for the West Bank and Gaza Strip (WBGS) declined by about one-third between 1992 and 1996 due to the combined effect of falling aggregate incomes and rapid population growth.
		The World Bank had already compared the 2001 and 2002 economic recession, due to the Second Intifada and Israel's refusal to transfer tax receipts, to the 1929 economic crisis.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Economy_of_the_West_Bank (1802 words)

	PALESTINE MONITOR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Though the beginning of 2003 was marked by a progressive lifting of the curfews and a very gradual opening of certain villages in the West Bank in fact the violence, and occurrence of military incursions, has increased.
		The wall is rapidly redrawing the socio political geography of the West Bank.
		By cutting deep into the West Bank, encircling Palestinian communities and severing infrastructure connecting them to public services, including water and sanitary networks as well as regional and national health care facilities, the Wall is simultaneously sundering as well as foisting a greater burden on a health care system already operating under considerable strain.
	www.palestinemonitor.org /new_web/factsheet_health.htm (3234 words)

	Global Connections . Geography \| PBS
		A fertile bank of the Nile River in Egypt [ enlarge ]
		The rich, fertile soil of the Middle East led early civilizations to settle, domesticate plants and animals, and thrive.
		Geography and natural resources have always influenced political power in this region.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/globalconnections/mideast/themes/geography/index.html (1858 words)

	History of the West Bank (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Under the DOP, Israel agreed to transfer certain powers and responsibilities to the Palestinian Authority (PA) as part of the interim self-governing arrangements in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
		The DOP provided that Israel would retain responsibility during the transitional period for external and internal security and for public order of settlements and Israeli citizens.
		Direct negotiations to determine the permanent status of Gaza and West Bank began in September 1999 after a three-year hiatus, but were derailed by a second intifada that broke out in September 2000.
	infotut.com /geography/West-Bank (264 words)

	CV
		Coordinator, Geography and Environment Workshop, The Council For Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences, The University of Chicago, 1987-1988.
		West Bank Regional Planning Analyst, International Committee of the Red Cross, Jerusalem, 1991-1992.
		Post-doctoral Fellowship, Department of Geography and Regional Science, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, 1992 (declined).
	geography.uoregon.edu /cohen/cv.htm (1266 words)

	Geography of Water Resources
		Eighty percent of the basin, however, is in Israel, Jordan, and the West Bank, which do not have other significant surface water sources, and have only limited groundwater sources.
		The mountain aquifer lies primarily underneath the West Bank and consists of three basins: the west, northeast, and east.
		Israel supplies Palestinians with 63 percent of the total water consumed in the West Bank via Mekerot pipelines.
	www.wws.princeton.edu /~wws401c/geography.html (882 words)

	Edward Said inteviewed by David Basamian @Arts & Opinion
		The West Bank and Gaza together constitute 22 percent of historical Palestine, and this is what the current fight is over.
		Of this 22 percent, the Israelis are still in control of 60 percent of the West Bank and 40 percent of Gaza.
		The Palestinians of Israel are Israeli citizens and the people in the West Bank and Gaza used to be Jordanians, or in Gaza they used to be Egyptians.
	www.artsandopinion.com /2003_v2_n3/said.htm (3935 words)

	Institute for Palestine Studies \| Journals
		It is these migrants who have left, moving back into the impoverished heart of the West Bank, or down the road along Route 55.[72] In this sense, the fence forces a reversal of Palestinian urban development, a push back in time and means.
		A total of 45,000 are estimated to live in the West Bank, concentrated in the southern stretches of the Jordan Valley.
		Area C is that part of the West Bank left under full Israeli control under the terms of the Oslo accords, composing some 60 percent of the West Bank.
	www.palestine-studies.org /final/en/journals/printer.php?aid=6071 (10544 words)

	AIR POLLUTION AND GLOBAL ATMOSPHERIC CHANGE
		According to the World Bank and the UNO, burning coal to produce electricity is responsible for 67% SO (sulfur oxides) 36% CO 33% mercury, and 28% NOx emissions in the air.
		As the air mass sinks, the atmosphere is compressed and hence the air warms up more than the ground layer of air.
		Advection inversion: Occurs on the west coast when warm sea breezes pass over cold currents prior to reaching land.
	www.geography.ccsu.edu /kyem/GEOG433/Air_Pollution/Air_Pollution.htm (1870 words)

	Foundation for Middle East Peace :: To Our Readers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Sharon is exploiting the diplomatic vacuum in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict created by Washington's retreat from this issue and its preoccupation with Iraq to accelerate changes in the political geography of the West Bank.
		He is also moving aggressively to isolate East Jerusalem from the West Bank.
		The scale of the latter effort is startling.
	www.fmep.org /reports/vol13/no2/02-to_our_readers.html (400 words)

	Reporters on the Job \| csmonitor.com
		But the evacuation of four smaller settlements in the northern West Bank has commanded less interest, he says.
		Only on our third pass did we realize, the road sign indicating the turn onto the highway to Sa-Nur was missing.
		It was as if someone had already erased the settlements from the geography of the West Bank."
	www.csmonitor.com /2005/0712/p06s02-wogn.htm (428 words)

	What's Going To Happen In the Middle East - Guest
		Those readers who are unfamiliar with the detailed geography of the West Bank should note that the area to the east of these lobes is mostly lightly inhabited, and the area to the west heavily infiltrated with post-1967 Jewish settlements.
		This, in turn, has the signal advantage of making a serious assault on one of the key props of the whole "Palestinian" war against Israel: the idea that the West Bank constitutes a nation in its own right, rather than just a section of Jordan.
		This premise, which has been admitted by Palestinian leaders, in unguarded moments, to have been an invention whose sole purpose was to harness the passions of "nationalism" against Israel, cannot survive serious scrutiny.
	www.americandaily.com /article/9055 (1401 words)

	Economic Geography Learning Web -- Table of Contents
		Learning Web: An integrated system of Internet-based, hypertextually organized course or program materials, resources, links to resources and communication opportunities designed to facilitate learning environments and active, student-centered processes in the classroom and beyond.
		Geography of International Trade and Foreign Direct Investment
		Web Book of Regional Science [Randall W. Jackson, editor, Regional Research Institute, West Virginia University, since 1999] with its component parts.
	faculty.washington.edu /krumme/ebg/contents.html (666 words)

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