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Read our booklet: West Bank: Occupied Territory vs Disputed Territory, International Law, and Other Key Issues.
StandWithUs was founded in 2001 by Roz Rothstein, a family therapist in Los Angeles whose parents were Holocaust survivors, her husband Jerry Rothstein, and Esther Renzer.
Educate yourself and others about the truth behind the West Bank's Israeli and Palestini Israeli settlements cover approximately 1.7 percent of West Bank land. Jews and Arabs have lived in the West Bank for centuries.
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2 days ago · West Bank, area of the former British-mandated (1920–47) territory of Palestine west of the Jordan River, claimed from 1949 to 1988 as part of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan but occupied from 1967 by Israel.
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The West Bank (Arabic: الضفة الغربية, romanized: aḍ-Ḍiffah al-Ġarbiyyah; Hebrew: הַגָּדָה הַמַּעֲרָבִית, romanized: HaGadáh HaMaʽarávit), so called due to its location relative to the Jordan River, is the larger of the two Palestinian territories (the other being the Gaza Strip).
Nov 25, 2019 · The US delighted Israel and outraged Palestinians by announcing it sees nothing illegal with Jewish settlements in the West Bank. Here, a brief history of this hotly disputed land.
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Jun 25, 2020 · The West Bank has been occupied by Israel since the 1967 Middle East war, but decades of difficult on-off talks between Israel and the Palestinians - both of whom assert rights there - have...
