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	West Bank - ninemsn Encarta
		Israeli troops remained in Hebron, however, and further negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian National Authority to determine the final status of the West Bank and Gaza Strip were delayed after the election victory of the Likud Party in Israel in May 1996.
		In the ensuing warfare Jordan occupied the West Bank and the eastern portion of Jerusalem.
		In the context of the Madrid framework, plans were advanced for the establishment of Palestinian autonomy in the West Bank, leading to an agreed determination for the future political status of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
	au.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761557747_2/West_Bank.html (2112 words)

	Political status of the West Bank and Gaza Strip - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The political status of the West Bank and Gaza Strip is one of the most violently disputed issues in the Arab-Israeli conflict.
		Direct negotiations to determine the permanent status of Gaza and West Bank had begun in September 1999 after a three-year hiatus, but have been derailed by the al-Aqsa Intifada that broke out in September 2000.
		Occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem by Jordan
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_the_West_Bank_and_Gaza_Strip (437 words)

	Bank of the West
		Political status of the West Bank and Gaza Strip - The political status of the West Bank and Gaza Strip is one of the most violently disputed issues in the Arab-Israeli conflict.
		West bank school of art and culture - West Bank School of Art and Culture was an experiment in art and life in the West Bank neighborhood of Minneapolis.
		Community West Bank - Community West Bank The Body and the Blood A Boston Globe bestseller: As the Jews community west bank and Muslims fight a war in the Middle East, the missing piece of the puzzle is the region`s embattled Christian community.
	se91.insurefinancexpense.com /bankofthewest.html (967 words)

	Encyclopedia: History of the West Bank and Gaza Strip (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Located west and south-west of the Jordan River in the eastern part of the Palestine region in the Middle East, it is bordered by Israel to the west, north, and south, and by Jordan to the east.
		The population of the West Bank is predominantly Palestinian (86%) with a significant minority of Israeli settlers.
		In either case, it is often treated as separate from the West Bank due to its importance; for example, the Oslo Peace Accords treat the status of East Jerusalem as a separate matter from the status of the other Palestinian territories, to be resolved at a later undetermined date.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/History-of-the-West-Bank-and-Gaza-Strip (478 words)

	Palestinian territories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The only natural geographic boundaries for the West Bank and the Gaza Strip are the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, respectively.
		Following the war, West Bank was annexed by Jordan, though the annexation was recognized only by the United Kingdom and Pakistan.
		Palestinians seeking to create a new Palestinian state in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip generally argue that the creation and the presence of Israeli settlements or military forces in those areas is a violation of international law, as affirmed by a majority of members of the Geneva convention: "12.
	hallencyclopedia.com /Palestinian_territories (2097 words)

	MSN Encarta - West Bank
		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 (1678 words)

	Palestine - Facts and Figures
		An independent Arab Palestine was briefly declared by a Palestinian National Congress meeting in Gaza in September 1948; it defined its borders as those of the British Mandate, and its capital as Jerusalem[8].
		Jordan captured about 21% of the Mandate territory (which became known as the West Bank), including parts of Jerusalem that included the old city and eastern environments and separated the city into West and East Jerusalem.
		After this, the term "Palestine" was regularly used in political contexts to describe land considered by the speaker to rightfully belong to a Palestinian state.
	www.witness-palestine.com (319 words)

	Myths & Facts - Settlements
		Politically, the West Bank and Gaza Strip is best regarded as territory over which there are competing claims which should be resolved in peace process negotiations.
		Ma'aleh Adumim is a settlement in the West Bank.
		Moreover, the West Bank is an area with strategic significance because of its proximity to Israel’s heartland and the fact that roughly one-quarter of Israel’s water resources are located there.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/myths/mf22a.html (5625 words)

	Gaza Strip - Flag - Introduction - Background
		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 intifadah that broke out in September 2000.
		In February 2005 the Israeli Government voted to disengage from the Gaza Strip by dismantling all Israeli settlements and removing all Israeli settlers.
		The future political status of the Gaza Strip has yet to be determined.
	www.exxun.com /GazaStrip/a_fg.html (505 words)

	ExecutiveSummary.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Political reconciliation between Israel and the Palestinians beginning with the signing of the Declaration of Principles in September 1993 paved the way for expanded business opportunities for U.S. companies in the West Bank and Gaza.
		The Presidential proclamation extending the duty-free status was announced November 21, 1996, the effective date of commencement of duty-free status.
		The West Bank and Gaza are home to approximately 2.5 million Palestinians, and the population is growing at an annual rate of more than five percent.
	www.mac.doc.gov /tcc/data/commerce_html/countries/Countries/Gaza/CountryCommercial/1998/ExecutiveSummary.html (550 words)

	MSN Encarta - Palestine Liberation Organization
		In 1987 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip began a spontaneous uprising, known as the intifada, against Israeli occupation.
		The PNA was to operate between May 1994 and May 1999, when talks about the final status and the future of the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and eastern Jerusalem were to be completed.
		Some Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip came to disrespect Arafat's administration because segments of it were reportedly corrupt and because Arafat ruled autocratically and filled many official PNA positions with his close colleagues from Tunis.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761566844/palestine_liberation_organization.html (2263 words)

	USAID CP FY97 - West Bank and Gaza
		USAID CP FY97 - West Bank and Gaza
		The population in West Bank and Gaza is estimated to be 2.4 million, with 900,000 in Gaza and 1.5 million in the West Bank.
		Only 35% of the land in the Gaza Strip and 52% in the West Bank is suitable for cultivation, mineral resources are negligible, and the lack of water is a limitation for both agricultural and industrial development.
	www.usaid.gov /pubs/cp97/countries/wb-gaza.htm (2371 words)

	Freedom in the World 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		In the 1967 Six-Day War, Israel came to occupy Sinai, the West Bank, Gaza, East Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights.
		Palestinians in the Gaza Strip carried out several rocket and mortar attacks against Israeli town and cities to the north and east of the strip.
		Banks, school, and airports closed in response to the Treasury's plan to slash $2.3 billion from the state budget.
	www.freedomhouse.org /research/freeworld/2004/countryratings/israel.htm (3072 words)

	WashingtonPost.com: The Middle East Report
		Status of the town of Hebron, home of a group of vocal Jewish settlers, left for later negotiations.
		Talks on the final status of Jerusalem and the West Bank and Gaza starting in spring of 1996, an accord due to be reached no later than May 1999.
		The final status of the Palestinian entity and Jerusalem to be negotiated later.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/inatl/longterm/me_peace/agreements.htm (535 words)

	Palestinian State (proposed)
		West Bank and Gaza Strip are Israeli-occupied with current status subject to the Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement—permanent status to be determined through further negotiation.
		In the Gaza Strip, administered by Egypt from 1948–1967, poverty and unemployment were high, and most of the Palestinians lived in refugee camps.
		In turn, Israel was to hold on to large blocks of land in the West Bank and reject the “right of return” for Palestinian refugees.
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0776421.html (1923 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Middle East \| Country profiles \| Country profile: Israel and Palestinian territories
		Israel evacuated its settlers from the Gaza Strip in 2005 and withdrew its forces, ending almost four decades of military occupation.
		Despite the handover of Gaza and parts of the West Bank to Palestinian control, a "final status" agreement has yet to be reached.
		One of the architects of the Oslo peace accords, Mr Qurei is regarded as a moderate and a pragmatist.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/middle_east/country_profiles/803257.stm (1536 words)

	Israel-Pullout-Ends (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Tuesday's evacuation of two hardline settlements in the West Bank was particularly significant for taking place in the heart of biblical Israel, a stinging blow to right-wing zealots who view relinquishing land there as a betrayal of God's will.
		In the West Bank, as in Gaza, Jewish settlers and their supporters failed to achieve their goal of making Israeli withdrawals appear so costly that no future government would dare attempt them again.
		They are concerned about Israel's plans to build thousands of new homes in the West Bank's largest settlement to connect it to Jerusalem, a city they claim as their future capital.
	www.cbc.ca /cp/world/050823/w082364.html (967 words)

	The World Factbook 2004 -- Field Listing - Economy - overview
		Banking reform accelerated in 2001 as all the communist-era payments bureaus were shut down.
		The government's failure to press the economic reforms needed to spur growth is largely the result of coalition politics and public resistance, particularly from the trade unions, to measures that would cut jobs, wages, or social benefits.
		The political turmoil in Fiji has had a severe impact with the economy shrinking by 2.8% in 2000 and growing by only 1% in 2001.
	www.brainyatlas.com /fields/2116.html (16452 words)

	CIA - The World Factbook -- West Bank (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The West Bank - the larger of the two areas under the Palestine Authority - has experienced a general decline in economic growth and a degradation in economic conditions made worse since the second intifadah began in September 2000.
		Including the Gaza Strip, the UN estimates that more than 100,000 Palestinians out of the 125,000 who used to work in Israeli settlements, or in joint industrial zones, have lost their jobs.
		International aid of $2 billion to the West Bank and Gaza strip in 2004 prevented the complete collapse of the economy and allowed some reforms in the government's financial operations.
	www.cia.gov /cia/publications/factbook/print/we.html (775 words)

	ViewsWire
		Following the completion of Israel's withdrawal from Gaza and part of the northern section of the West Bank, the Palestinian Authority is seeking to create viable economic and political stuctures in Gaza, while pushing for a resumption of final status peace negotiations.
		As of July 2001 this area covered the entire Gaza Strip (with the exception of a few Jewish settlements) and just over 40% of the West Bank territory, which was occupied by Israel in 1967.
		The Palestinians regard East Jerusalem as part of the West Bank and as the capital of their future state; however, Israel views it as an integral part of its own capital.
	viewswire.com /index.asp?layout=VWcountryVW3®ion_id=430000443&country_id=420000042 (551 words)

	Abbas to ask Bush for aid, assurances on peace talks - The Boston Globe - Boston.com - Middle East - News
		Bush is expected to press the Palestinian leader to dismantle militant groups in the West Bank and Gaza -- a demand Abbas has repeatedly rejected -- and hasten democratic reforms in the Palestinian Authority.
		The fate of about 130 settlements that Israel has built in the West Bank since the 1967 Middle East war is one of the most hotly disputed issues in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
		Sharon, while planning to evacuate more than 9,000 settlers from their homes in the Gaza Strip and the northern West Bank this summer, has allowed settlements to expand in other parts of the West Bank during his four years as prime minister.
	www.boston.com /news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/05/25/abbas_to_ask_bush_for_aid_assurances_on_peace_talks (486 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| 'Nothing to talk about'
		As well as preparing to annex 70 per cent of the West Bank, Israel is drawing up contingency plans to take over the seven Palestinian towns currently under PA administration.
		Ignoring the fact that East Jerusalem was occupied by Israel in 1967, along with the West Bank, Netanyahu suggested Jerusalem was not negotiable with the Palestinians or anyone else.
		The draconian measure against the Palestinian leaders is consistent with Netanyahu's declared policy of "lowering Palestinian expectations" on Jerusalem and the rest of the Occupied Territories.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /1999/422/re2.htm (810 words)

	"Only Buffer Zones Can Protect Israel" by Dore Gold
		It was hoped that the final political status of those lands, to which both Israel and the Palestinians had claims, could be resolved through direct negotiations.
		The real lesson of the failed summit at Camp David in 2000 is that in the very difficult issues of permanent status -- borders, Jerusalem, refugees and security -- the gaps between the most conciliatory Israeli positions advanced by the Barak government and those of the P.L.O. were totally unbridgeable.
		Immediately adjacent to the West Bank is the densely populated Israeli coastal plain, where 70 percent of Israelis live and 80 percent of Israel's industrial capacity is located.
	www.jcpa.org /art/nytimes-dg27feb02.htm (1084 words)

	Freedom in the World 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza began an intifada in 1987, primarily attacking targets of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to protest Israeli rule.
		Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Gaza have become a major sticking point in negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians and in relations between Israel and the international community.
		Labor affairs in the West Bank and Gaza are governed by a combination of Jordanian laws and PA decisions.
	www.freedomhouse.org /research/freeworld/2004/countryratings/israel-palestinian.htm (3835 words)

	Israeli Gaza Strip barrier - Qwika
		Israeli Gaza Strip barrier Gaza Strip Barrier near the Karni Crossing...
		Israeli West Bank barrier The barrier route as of May 2005.
		The approved barrier route as of May 2005 The political status of the West Bank and Gaza Strip is one of the most violently...
	www.qwika.com /find/Israeli_Gaza_Strip_barrier (328 words)

	Gaza Strip
		Permanent status negotiations began on 5 May 1996, but have not resumed since the initial meeting.
		In 1991 roughly 40% of Gaza Strip workers were employed across the border by Israeli industrial, construction, and agricultural enterprises, with worker remittances supplementing GDP by roughly 50%.
		The redeployment of Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip in May 1994 has added to the set of adjustment problems.
	www.cultureconnect.com /facts/gz.htm (707 words)

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