Posts Tagged: west bank
IDF Cautions Patience as Troops Scour West Bank for Kidnapped Teens
As thousands of Israeli troops comb through Palestinian Authority controlled towns and villages looking for three Israeli teens kidnapped a week ago, officers leading...
Israeli Cops: Palestinians Flooding Emergency Call Center With Fake Kidnapping Alerts
Police officials in Israel say that some 42 percent of all #100 (911) emergency calls they field in Samaria and Judea (the West Bank) are...
Palestinian Authority Raid Exposes Hamas Dungeon for Hiding Israeli Captives (VIDEO)
Video footage released on Tuesday showed what Palestinian Authority (PA) security officials said was an underground dungeon Hamas had prepared meant to hide abducted Israelis. The...
Coming Soon: Israeli Kidnapping Alert App For Smartphones
In the wake of the terrorist kidnapping of three Israeli teens last week, a local firm is updating an existing smartphone app to allow users...
Hamas Says ‘Keeping All Options Open’ as Israel Ratchets Up Search for Abducted Teens
"All options of the Palestinian resistance remain open," a Hamas official vowed Monday, as Israel strove to find and free three teens kidnapped Thursday near...
United Nations Concerned by Honor Killings Increase in West Bank
Jerusalem Post - UN Women, the United Nations' organization for women's rights, is "seriously concerned" by rising rates of violence against women, including "honor" killings...
Israel’s Bennett Pushes Plan to Exercise Israeli Sovereignty, Devolve More Autonomy to PA in ‘Post-Oslo’ Era (VIDEO)
Israeli Economy Minister Naftali Bennett on Thursday said he was responding to calls by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for "alternative solutions" in this "post-Oslo" era,...
Israeli Minister Bennett: Let Abbas Go Home
Israel Economy Minister Naftali Bennett on Sunday reflected on a paradigm-shifting report about the status of the Palestinian Authority, in Israeli daily Yediot Ahronot, writing...
Heartland of the Homeland
For the Jewish People, the ancient tribal territories of Judah, Benjamin, Ephraim, and west Menasheh - a.k.a. "Judea & Samaria" or the "West Bank" -...
Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop May be Right on the Legality of Settlements
Julie Bishop had some sensible things to say in Jerusalem, as she broke ranks from a cosy, normally unexamined international consensus: the idea that, by...
40 Years Ago, AP Described Palestinian Arabs as ‘Statesmen of Tomorrow’
This AP article from 1974 interviews different Palestinian Arabs as to their ideas about the future of the Middle East. A few are pragmatic, others are...
Familiar Pattern: Palestinian Terrorism Surge Runs Parallel to Negotiations
JNS.org - Upsurges in Palestinian terrorism are often tied to progress—and eventual breakdowns—in Israeli-Palestinian conflict negotiations over the past 20 years....
Media’s Lexicon Poisons Public Perceptions of Israel
Vice President Biden voiced an under-appreciated truth this month in telling a Jewish group that the Jewish people face the most concentrated international effort he...
Netanyahu Must Present a Coherent Settlement Strategy
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu enjoys enormous public support. Most Israelis, including many of those who generally oppose his policies, supported his single-handed global campaign against...
