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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 "West Bank" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF WEST BANK

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WEST BANK

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West Bank is a noun.
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WHAT DOES WEST BANK MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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.

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

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Translation of «West Bank» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF WEST BANK

Find out the translation of West Bank to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of 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 «West Bank» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

西岸
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Cisjordania
570 millions of speakers

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West Bank
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

वेस्ट बैंक
380 millions of speakers
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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

Bank Barat
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

West Bank
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

West Bank
85 millions of speakers
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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 Bankası
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

West Bank
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

West Bank
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

West Bank
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

Västbanken
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

Vestbredden
5 millions of speakers

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «WEST BANK»

The term «West Bank» is quite widely used and occupies the 23.562 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «WEST BANK» OVER TIME

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

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10 QUOTES WITH «WEST BANK»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word 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.
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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.
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Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
Based on the Gaza precedent, Israel should not simply be expected to withdraw from territory and let it devolve into a state of anarchy. The West Bank is simply too close to Israel's major population centers and infrastructure to allow it to become another launching pad for rockets.
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Pat Buchanan
I've just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas.
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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.
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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.
9
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.
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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 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WEST BANK»

Discover the use of West Bank in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to West Bank and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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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
2
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
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
Zealots for Zion: Inside Israel's West Bank Settlement Movement
"With his sensitive reporter's eyes, Mr. Friedman takes us inside the settlement movement, to the synagogies, kitchen tables and television rooms where ordinary people talk of extraordinary things . . . . This is a chilling book.
Robert I. Friedman, 1994
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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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Law, Violence and Sovereignty Among West Bank Palestinians
As the Oslo Peace Process has given way to the violence of the second intifada, this book explores the continuing legacy of Oslo in the everyday life of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Tobias Kelly, 2006
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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
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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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West Bank and Gaza Strip: Economic Developments in the Five ...
This paper assesses macroeconomic developments and progress in institution building during 1994-1998.
International Monetary Fund, 1999
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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 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WEST BANK»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term West Bank is used in the context of the following news items.
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Jewish Arsonists Suspected in West Bank Attack That Killed …
DUMA, West Bank — Residents of this Palestinian hamlet still awake on a hot summer night heard the screams and rushed to the Dawabsheh home. Outside ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
2
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»
3
Israeli Forces Kill Palestinian Teenager in West Bank
JERUSALEM — Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian teenager in the occupied West Bank on Friday as he and others hurled stones and rocks at their army ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
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Palestinian killed by Israeli jeep in West Bank
Israeli forces regularly mount raids in the West Bank in search of suspected militants, often touching off clashes with local residents. On Wednesday, Israeli ... «Reuters, Jun 15»
5
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»
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Israeli Forces Kill Palestinian Man in West Bank Clashes
JERUSALEM — Israeli forces shot and killed a 19-year-old Palestinian man when clashes broke out during a military raid on a refugee camp in the Bethlehem ... «New York Times, Feb 15»
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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»
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PHOTO GALLERY: Palestinians clash with Israeli forces in West Bank
A Palestinian carries a burning tire during clashes with Israeli troops following the funeral of Palestinian Mahmoud Adwan at Qalandia checkpoint near the West ... «Jerusalem Post, Dec 14»
9
Israeli troops kill Palestinian during West Bank clash
Three Israeli teens were killed by Palestinian militants in the West Bank in June and in a retribution attack in July, a Palestinian youth was burned to death by ... «Reuters, Dec 14»
10
Netanyahu years continue surge in settlements
FILE - In this Monday, Sept. 7, 2009 file photo, an Israeli flag is seen in front of the West Bank Jewish settlement of Maaleh Adumim on the outskirts of Jerusalem. «Yahoo News, Dec 14»

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