West Bank town unites amid Palestinian divisions
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SHYOUKH, West Bank  - Life is booming in one hilltop West Bank town despite a year of crippling Western sanctions against a Hamas-led government and recent bloodshed elsewhere between rival Palestinian factions.
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The recent announcement of plans to add more than 1,800 housing units to West Bank settlements may have sparked world anger, but on the ground it's just business as usual. The fact is &#151; settlement building never stopped.
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In the volatile West Bank city of Hebron, Israelis and a Palestinian leader met in search of a unique solution to the conflict.
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Middle East News, RAMALLAH, West Bank, Palestinians voted on Thursday in the first municipal elections in the West Bank in nearly three decades, a dress rehearsal for a presidential ballot next month to choose Yasser Arafat&#39;s successor.
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Thousands of Palestinians surged into Yasser Arafat&#39;s battered West Bank compound on Friday to pay tumultuous homage to their late president at the end of his final journey home.
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ABU DIS, West Bank: Palestinians and Israelis rallied under the shadows of the West Bank barrier on Friday, vowing to follow in the footsteps of Mahatma Gandhi by pursuing a peaceful resolution to the Middle East conflict.
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JENIN REFUGEE CAMP, West Bank -- Dozens of gun-toting Palestinian militants marched yesterday into a ceremony where the United Nations and visiting Arab VIPs were dedicating new homes for families whose houses were destroyed by the Israeli military -- a sign of the authority gunmen still hold in this West Bank town.
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As members of Long Island&#39;s tiny Palestinian community absorbed the news of the death of Yasser Arafat Thursday, many spoke reverently of a man who had given the disposessed Palestinian people a voice.
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BETHLEHEM, West Bank  - Hundreds of pilgrims and a  new Palestinian leadership came to Bethlehem for Christmas as  the town of Jesus's birth celebrated the festival with new  hopes for peace following Yasser Arafat's death.
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A rare optimism is taking hold among Palestinians amid signs of a possible breakthrough in the long-deadlocked Mideast peace process.
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MECCA, Saudi Arabia  - Rival Palestinian factions agreed to form a unity government on Thursday and end fighting and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called on the new government to respect previous agreements.
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One small town provides a snapshot of an electorate riven by tribal infighting
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinians hold municipal  elections in parts of the West Bank on Thursday, seen as a  dress rehearsal for a presidential vote to choose Yasser  Arafat's successor next month.
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Fighting between Palestinian factions is dividing their turf and dashing statehood hopes.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank, Dec 23  - Palestinians in 26 municipalities across the West Bank headed to the polls Thursday as they get the chance to vote for their councillors for the first time in three decades.
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Events in Beirut expose the divisions of a small state on the faultlines of the Middle East
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip observed a general strike on Wednesday, in a rare show of unity after Israel killed 18 people in fighting a day earlier.