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Jewish fundamentalism is teaching that Jews can fight with guns and with civil war, against being relocated off the West Bank, and disobey the orders of their government. That is the call to jihad, to several kinds of jihad.
Arthur Hertzberg

Meaning of "the West Bank" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF THE WEST BANK

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WHAT DOES THE WEST BANK MEAN IN ENGLISH?

the West Bank

West Bank

The West Bank (Arabic: الضفة الغربية‎ aḍ-Ḍaffah l-Ġarbiyyah, Hebrew: הגדה המערבית‎, HaGadah HaMa'aravit or Cisjordan, also Hebrew: יהודה ושומרון‎ Yehuda ve-Shomron (Judea and Samaria)) is a landlocked territory near the Mediterranean coast of Western Asia, forming the bulk of the Palestinian territories. The West Bank shares boundaries (demarcated by the Jordanian-Israeli armistice of 1949) to the west, north, and south with the state of Israel, and to the east, across the Jordan River, with Jordan. The West Bank also contains a significant coastline along the western bank of the Dead Sea. The West Bank, including East Jerusalem, has a land area of 5,640 km2 and 220 km2 water, the northwest quarter of the Dead Sea. It has an estimated population of 2,676,740 (July 2013). More than 80%, about 2,100,000, are Palestinian Arabs, and approximately 500,000 are Jewish Israelis living in the West Bank, including about 192,000 in East Jerusalem, in Israeli settlements.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE THE WEST BANK

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the Welsh
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the West Country
the West End
the wet
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the wheel
the Wheel Blacks
the wherewithal
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WORDS THAT END LIKE THE WEST BANK

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European Central Bank
European Investment Bank
Federal Reserve Bank
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Left Bank
National Savings Bank
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Trustee Savings Bank
West Bank
World Bank

Synonyms and antonyms of the West Bank in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «the West Bank» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF THE WEST BANK

Find out the translation of the West Bank to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of the West Bank from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «the West Bank» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

西岸
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Cisjordania
570 millions of speakers

English

the West Bank
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

वेस्ट बैंक
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الضفة الغربية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

Западный берег
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Cisjordânia
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পশ্চিম তীর
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Cisjordanie
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tebing Barat
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

die Westbank
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ヨルダン川西岸
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

웨스트 뱅크
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ing Tlatah Kulon
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

Bờ Tây
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மேற்கு வங்கம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

वेस्ट बँक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Batı Şeria
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Cisgiordania
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

West Bank
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Західний берег
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Cisiordania
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

η Δυτική Όχθη
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

die Wes-Bank
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Västbanken
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Vestbredden
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of the West Bank

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «THE WEST BANK»

The term «the West Bank» is very widely used and occupies the 2.543 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «THE WEST BANK» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about the West Bank

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10 QUOTES WITH «THE WEST BANK»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word the West Bank.
1
Mahmoud Abbas
Israel reoccupied the cities of the West Bank by a unilateral action, and reestablished the civil and military occupation by a unilateral action, and it is the one that determines whether or not a Palestinian citizen has the right to reside in any part of the Palestinian Territory.
2
Yasser Arafat
Our law is a Jordanian law that we inherited, which applies to both the West Bank and Gaza, and sets the death penalty for those who sell land to Israelis.
3
Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
A peaceful resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will likely depend to a great extent on the economic development of a future Palestinian state. As I have argued before, private sector investment - especially in the West Bank - is going to prove crucial in creating the right political and social context for peace.
4
Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
Economic support from the rest of the Arab states to the fledgling Palestinian Authority in the West Bank is virtually non-existent.
5
Pat Buchanan
I've just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas.
6
Martin Van Creveld
The defense of the West Bank by Arab forces would be a truly suicidal enterprise. The late King Hussein understood these facts well. Until 1967, he was careful to keep most of his forces east of the Jordan River. When he momentarily forgot these realities in 1967, it took Israel just three days of fighting to remind him of them.
7
Larry Fitzgerald
In terms of me being a Christian, going to Israel was really cool. Going to the West Bank, Bethlehem, floating in the Dead Sea - that was great for me.
8
Ismail Haniyeh
We don't have a state, neither in Gaza nor in the West Bank. Gaza is under siege and the West Bank is occupied. What we have in the Gaza Strip is not a state, but rather a regime of an elected government. A Palestinian state will not be created at this time except in the territories of 1967.
9
Arthur Hertzberg
Jewish fundamentalism is teaching that Jews can fight with guns and with civil war, against being relocated off the West Bank, and disobey the orders of their government. That is the call to jihad, to several kinds of jihad.
10
Steven T. Katz
The poet laureate of England talked about murdering Jews on the West Bank.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «THE WEST BANK»

Discover the use of the West Bank in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to the West Bank and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Palestinian Women of Gaza and the West Bank
These essays, written from an "insider's" perspective, show how Palestinian women confront issues of gender, feminism, and the national agenda.
Suha Sabbagh, 1998
2
Islamic Fundamentalism in the West Bank and Gaza: Muslim ...
As the Palestinian Liberation Organization engages in negotiations with Israel toward an interim period of limited Palestinian self-rule, this timely book provides an insider's view of how the growing hold of Islamic fundamentalism in the ...
Ziyād Abū ʻAmr, 1994
3
Israel the West Bank and International Law
Synthesizing primary and technical data, this book focuses on the legal and political aspects of Israeli administration in the West Bank and the international attempt to resolve the dispute over the territories.
Allan Gerson, 2012
4
Unsettled States, Disputed Lands: Britain and Ireland, ...
A pathbreaking study carried out over a decade and a half analyzing the processes, policies, and factors involved when states incorporate additional territories, and when they relinquish control over territories.
Ian Lustick, 1993
5
Palestinian Women: Patriarchy and Resistance in the West Bank
While the book presents an overwhelming argument that the current system hinders any progress towards democracy and prosperity for the region, it also explores the strategies by which women are working to better their positions, and the ...
Cheryl Rubenberg, 2001
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Crossing the Green Line Between the West Bank and Israel
Crossing the Green Line Between the West Bank and Israel is about passing through these checkpoints--specifically those that mark the Green Line, the geopolitical border separating the West Bank from Israel proper--and how their existence ...
Avram S. Bornstein, 2002
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Human Rights in the West Bank and Gaza: Legacy and Politics
Ilan Peleg focuses on the status of human rights in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip until the early 1990s and evaluates the likely condition of human rights within a variety of possible solutions to the conflict.
Ilan Peleg, 1995
8
Courting Conflict: The Israeli Military Court System in the ...
Annotation This is a meticulously documented examination of Israeli military courts in the West Bank and Gaza strip.
Lisa Hajjar, 2005
9
A Very Political Economy: Peacebuilding and Foreign Aid in ...
"A Very Political Economy" spares no political sensitivities in its dissection of the aid process, but also argues persuasively that without international assistance there would have been no Palestinian Authority left to negotiate with, and ...
Rex Brynen, 2000
10
Breaking Ranks: Refusing to Serve in the West Bank and Gaza ...
These personal accounts offer new perspectives on some entrenched ideas about the situation in the Middle East. The testimony in Breaking Ranks is essential background for a full understanding of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Ronit Chacham, 2003

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «THE WEST BANK»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term the West Bank is used in the context of the following news items.
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Israel Arrests 4 Palestinians in West Bank Shooting
Over the last few weeks the Palestinian Authority, which exercises limited control in parts of the West Bank, has arrested scores of local Hamas activists, ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
2
Palestinian forces arrest dozens of Hamas men in the West Bank
... of Hamas members in overnight raids in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, the ... Adnan Al-Dmairi, security spokesman for the Western-backed Palestinian ... «Reuters, Jul 15»
3
Israel Cancels Project Barring Palestinians From Some Buses to the
Mustafa Barghouti, a Palestinian leader in the West Bank, said that the plan for segregated buses was particularly “blunt,” but that other forms of segregation ... «New York Times, May 15»
4
In The West Bank, Living Side By Side — But Agreeing On Nothing
No matter how much you've read about the struggle for land in the Middle East, it deepens your understanding to visit an Israeli settlement in the West Bank. «NPR, Mar 15»
5
An Open Door Beckons in the West Bank
BEIT JALA, West Bank — Before dishing out her homemade freekeh soup, Khadra Zreineh cracked open the front door despite the December chill. There was a ... «New York Times, Dec 14»
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Map: The spread of Israeli settlements in the West Bank
According to official Israeli government data released last week, the population of Israeli settlements in the West Bank grew almost 25 percent between 2009 ... «Washington Post, Dec 14»
7
Israeli soldiers kill Palestinian in West Bank
Funeral in Qalandiya near Ramallah A funeral at Qalandiya refugee camp near the West Bank city of Ramallah. Tensions have been high in the area in recent ... «The Guardian, Dec 14»
8
Israeli family suffer burns after West Bank acid attack
Soldiers and medics at the scene of the chemical attack in the West Bank. ... to be acid was thrown over them reportedly by a Palestinian man in the West Bank. «The Guardian, Dec 14»
9
Israeli Troops Kill Palestinian Teenager in the West Bank, the 2nd in …
The Israeli military said its forces opened fire as the teenager threw a firebomb onto a main road in the West Bank that is often used by Israeli settlers, an account ... «New York Times, Oct 14»
10
Israel confiscates nearly 1000 acres of Palestinian land in the West
Israel on Sunday confiscated nearly 1,000 acres of privately owned Palestinian land near an Israeli settlement south of Bethlehem in the West Bank — a move ... «Al Jazeera America, Aug 14»

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