Read more West Bank stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/3001/west-bank.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 18:41:19 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/74180/time-to-talk-mideast-truce-not-peace.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPresident Obama's early efforts have failed, and a peace deal between the Israelis and the Palestinians now looks as distant as ever, writes Roger Cohen. It was a mistake to think the land-for-peace talks of 2000 could simply be revived despite the violence, expansion of settlements, and Israel's construction of...http://www.newser.com/story/74180/time-to-talk-mideast-truce-not-peace.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 17 Nov 2009 1:19:34 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/72623/amnesty-israel-is-denying-palestinians-water.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagIsrael is guzzling the region's water supply to keep its farmland lush and its lawns green while many Palestinians struggle to get the bare minimum for life, according to an Amnesty International report. The report accuses Israel of using its "total control" over water supplies to discriminate against Palestinians in...http://www.newser.com/story/72623/amnesty-israel-is-denying-palestinians-water.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 27 Oct 2009 3:58:47 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/71874/mideast-peace-would-justify-obamas-nobel.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWith his Nobel Prize, President Obama has once again been celebrated and rewarded for who he’s not (George W. Bush) and who he might be. Although Obama’s preferred foreign policy MO—patient diplomacy on many fronts—doesn’t “lend itself to high drama,” that's exactly what he needs to actually earn...http://www.newser.com/story/71874/mideast-peace-would-justify-obamas-nobel.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 16 Oct 2009 12:13:32 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/71376/israelis-palestinians-skeptical-of-obama-nobel.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPresident Obama won praise from Israeli and Palestinian leaders after yesterday's surprise Nobel Peace Prize win, but many others on both sides of the conflict expressed puzzlement and wariness. The decision is "very strange," said the speaker of Israel's parliament, adding that he hoped Obama wouldn't now feel he could...http://www.newser.com/story/71376/israelis-palestinians-skeptical-of-obama-nobel.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 10 Oct 2009 6:11:25 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/68611/israel-snubs-washington-plans-new-west-bank-homes.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagBenjamin Netanyahu will approve the construction of several hundred housing units in the West Bank, snubbing the Obama adminisration's demands for a halt to new settlements. The Israeli prime minister informed the White House of his plans weeks ago, Haaretz reports. The US and Israel are still negotiating the terms...http://www.newser.com/story/68611/israel-snubs-washington-plans-new-west-bank-homes.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 04 Sep 2009 5:25:49 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/67262/quietly-israel-backs-off-new-settlements.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagBenjamin Netanyahu has struck a hawkish tone on settlements since returning to the Israeli premiership, and his cabinet ministers insisted as recently as Monday that "there is no choice but to continue building." But quietly, his government has agreed to Barack Obama's demand to end new construction in the West...http://www.newser.com/story/67262/quietly-israel-backs-off-new-settlements.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 19 Aug 2009 9:19:29 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/66141/palestine-could-offer-bright-spot-for-arab-world.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThings are bad in the Arab world, but Thomas Friedman sees green shoots in an unlikely place: Palestine. “The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is to the wider Middle East what off-Broadway is to Broadway,” he writes in the New York Times . “It is where all good and bad ideas get tested out...http://www.newser.com/story/66141/palestine-could-offer-bright-spot-for-arab-world.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 05 Aug 2009 9:22:02 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/64610/olmert-stop-obsessing-over-settlements.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagIt's fine for Barack Obama to make overtures to the Arab world, but Ehud Olmert, reminding him in a Washington Post op-ed that Israel is "the only real Middle Eastern democracy," complains that he has focused too much of his attentions on Israel's settlements in the West Bank. Olmert says...http://www.newser.com/story/64610/olmert-stop-obsessing-over-settlements.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 17 Jul 2009 6:27:11 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/63352/obama-hasnt-turned-on-israelyet.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagJewish Americans voted overwhelmingly for Barack Obama, convinced he was a supporter of Israel. Now, they “suspect they may have been victims of a bait and switch,” writes Alan Dershowitz of the Wall Street Journal . Obama’s rhetoric has certainly been harsher than it was during the campaign, but his only...http://www.newser.com/story/63352/obama-hasnt-turned-on-israelyet.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 02 Jul 2009 8:09:01 CDT