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many Israeli maps and textbooks no longer show the green line at all. In 2010, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel called the settlement of Ariel, which stretches deep into the West Bank, "the heart of our country." Through its pro-settler policies, Israel is forging one political entity betw
uld help to change that. Already, prominent Israeli writers like David Grossman, Amos Oz and A. B. Yehoshua have refused to visit the settlement of Ariel. We should support their efforts because persuading companies and people to begin leaving nondemocratic Israel, instead of continuing to flock ther
s to be caught between the jaws of a pincer. On the one hand, the Israeli government is erasing the "green line" that separates Israel proper from the West Bank. In 1980, roughly 12,000 Jews lived in the West Bank (excluding East Jerusalem). Today, government subsidies have helped swell that number to more
any Israeli maps and textbooks no longer show the green line at all. In 2010, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel called the settlement of Ariel, which stretches deep into the West Bank, "the heart of our country." Through its pro-settler policies, Israel is forging one political entity betw
uld help to change that. Already, prominent Israeli writers like David Grossman, Amos Oz and A. B. Yehoshua have refused to visit the settlement of Ariel. We should support their efforts because persuading companies and people to begin leaving nondemocratic Israel, instead of continuing to flock the
is to be caught between the jaws of a pincer. On the one hand, the Israeli government is erasing the "green line" that separates Israel proper from the West Bank. In 1980, roughly 12,000 Jews lived in the West Bank (excluding East EFTA_R1_00224927 EFTA01840334 Jerusalem). Today, government subsidies have
beyond Israel's security barrier. • Those reasonably in dispute, including some of the large settlement blocs several miles from Jerusalem such as Ariel (which may well remain part of Israel, but subject to negotiated land swaps). This rough division is based on prior negotiations and on positions a
eace offer to the Palestinian Authority. The Palestinian Authority refuses to negotiate unless Israel accepts a "freeze" on settlement building in the West Bank. Israel accepted a 10- month freeze in 2009, but the Palestinian Authority didn't come to the bargaining table until weeks before the freeze expired
Entities connected to both Ariel and the West Bank

Barack Obama
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Benjamin Netanyahu
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Jerusalem
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George W. Bush
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Lebanon
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United States
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Bashar al-Assad
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Tehran
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West Bank
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Jeffrey Epstein
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Terje Rod-Larsen
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Fatah
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Cairo
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Hosni Mubarak
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Damascus
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Marc Rich
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Mahmoud Abbas
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Vladimir Putin
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Hillary Clinton
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Ehud Barak
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