West Bank News
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Israeli authorities are seeking to legalize four unsanctioned Jewish settlement outposts in the West Bank, a move that could hobble U.S. efforts to revive peace talks.
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Peace Now, which monitors Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank, said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new government hasn’t issued any tenders or approved any additional building plans.
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A knife-wielding Palestinian killed an Israeli settler in the West Bank and Israel carried out a deadly air strike on a Gaza Strip man it linked to a rocket attack.
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When dry weather destroyed Leonard McKissick’s soybeans last year, U.S. government-backed insurance paid him $40,000, the bulk of his loss.
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Poor U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. Shortly after he announced that the U.S., as part of an effort to jump-start the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, would work to promote the Palestinian economy, their prime minister and well-respected chief economic guru Salam Fayyad resigned.
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Israeli troops dispersed crowds of stone-throwing demonstrators at several locations across the West Bank today as Palestinians took to the streets to protest the death of a Palestinian prisoner in an Israeli jail.
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The resignation of Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, whose commitment to transparency reassured donor nations, may make it tougher for the Palestinian Authority to raise the foreign aid it needs to survive.
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Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad resigned yesterday after repeatedly warning of the government’s precarious finances, a move that could complicate new U.S. efforts to revive peace talks.
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry urged Turkey to mend ties with Israel and help with a fresh push to negotiate peace in the Middle East.
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Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, the International Monetary Fund economist who sought to create a stable foundation for statehood, today submitted his resignation, which was accepted by President Mahmoud Abbas.
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