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	<description>stories and thoughts from residents of the West Bank in the occupied Palestinian territories</description>
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		<title>Palestinian reaction to events in Iran</title>
		<link>http://westbankword.wordpress.com/2009/06/30/palestinian-reaction-to-events-in-iran/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:28:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was recently approached by Foreign Policy magazine and asked to write an article about the reaction on the Palestinian street to the turmoil in Iran. While I initially expected to find some people who saw a link between the Iranian&#8217;s calls for freedom and the Palestinian fight for independence, the reality of this perspective [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=westbankword.wordpress.com&blog=5284532&post=184&subd=westbankword&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Memory of First Intifada &#8211; Hebron</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:55:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lubna415</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently asked my uncle to dig up this old VHS tape from 1991 during the first Palestinian intifada. The uprising, from the late 1980s until the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993, was a time of national unity against the Israeli military occupation in the West Bank. Many believe it led to the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=westbankword.wordpress.com&blog=5284532&post=180&subd=westbankword&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Settler group makes ironic statement&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://westbankword.wordpress.com/2009/06/01/settler-group-makes-ironic-statement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 18:12:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lubna415</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As one of the more complicated world issues regularly in the news for the past several decades, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict offers countless varied topics to make headlines (ie, Gaza? Hamas? Palestinian Authority? Right-wing Israeli government? water issues, land confiscations, building permits, shootouts, on and on).






The spotlight in the past few weeks has been on the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=westbankword.wordpress.com&blog=5284532&post=170&subd=westbankword&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NPR Story on Ramallah: West Bank Boom Town</title>
		<link>http://westbankword.wordpress.com/2009/05/30/npr-story-on-ramallah-west-bank-boom-town/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 11:36:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lubna415</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[National Public Radio has a feature on the West Bank city of Ramallah, where I live, work and play. It&#8217;s an interesting and informative piece about how Ramallah is the economic, political and social center of the Palestinian territories. Indeed, Ramallah is an increasingly wealthy, wealthy city and both locals and expats/visitors alike are accustomed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=westbankword.wordpress.com&blog=5284532&post=162&subd=westbankword&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Photos of life in Ramallah lately</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 17:35:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>A Westward Gaze Toward Gaza</title>
		<link>http://westbankword.wordpress.com/2009/01/17/a-westward-gaze-toward-gaza/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2009 11:16:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lubna415</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On these clear winter days, I can look West out the window of the shared van ride through the West Bank hills from my home in Ramallah to work at Birzeit University and see a distant city on the horizon. Only a 45 minute drive from Ramallah, those barely discernible little buildings might be Ashdod; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=westbankword.wordpress.com&blog=5284532&post=143&subd=westbankword&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>West Bank Palestinians Feel Gaza Almost Another Country</title>
		<link>http://westbankword.wordpress.com/2009/01/09/west-bank-palestinians-see-gaza-almost-as-another-country/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:58:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lubna415</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-ml-palestinians-west-bank-view,0,2973804.story
West Bank Palestinians feel as if warring Gaza has become another country
By BEN HUBBARD
Associated Press Writer
January 8, 2009
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — While one part of the Palestinian territories faces the fiercest Israeli onslaught in years, there is little to remind people in the other part of the war except for news reports, requests for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=westbankword.wordpress.com&blog=5284532&post=135&subd=westbankword&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ramallah reaction to Israeli air strikes on Gaza</title>
		<link>http://westbankword.wordpress.com/2008/12/28/the-palestinian-territories-gaza-and-the-west-bank-a-world-apart/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2008 08:48:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lubna415</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have photos here of yesterday&#8217;s response in Ramallah to the Gaza airstrikes:
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Within a few hours of unprecedented Israeli air strikes that killed more than 220 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, hundreds of Palestinians waving flags of the various factions gathered at Ramallah&#8217;s central Manara circle in the West Bank. Separated from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=westbankword.wordpress.com&blog=5284532&post=131&subd=westbankword&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">A Palestinian youth holds the flag at a protest against Israeli air strikes that killed more than 220 in Gaza</media:title>
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		<title>Britain&#8217;s New Statesman Mag on the good life in Ramallah</title>
		<link>http://westbankword.wordpress.com/2008/12/08/britains-new-statesman-mag-on-the-good-life-in-ramallah/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 18:48:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[British socialist current affairs mag the New Statesman has a beautiful, vivid description of how the normalcy of daily life in Ramallah defies the struggles, poverty, conflict and occupation that surround the city in the West Bank. It&#8217;s one of those things I see from time to time and think, &#8220;man, I wish I wrote [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=westbankword.wordpress.com&blog=5284532&post=128&subd=westbankword&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Biggest Muslim holiday, Eid al Adha, comes to Ramallah</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 11:12:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lubna415</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a look at Eid in Ramallah in photos and video, see my Flickr feed here.

With as much or more fanfare as Christmas in the US, Eid al Adha has been in the air in Ramallah for the past week. Islam&#8217;s biggest holiday, Eid al Adha, or feast of the sacrifice, commemorates the Biblical and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=westbankword.wordpress.com&blog=5284532&post=120&subd=westbankword&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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