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Qalqilya

Unlikely Palestine zoo creates surprising pairings

THE ZOO ON THE ROAD TO NABLUS: A Story of Survival from the West Bank. Amelia Thomas. PublicAffairs. 293 pages. $24.95. There were no zoos on the West Bank when I was a teenager growing up in Ramallah in the late 1970s and...

The Dr. Doolittle of the West Bank

The West Bank town of Qalqilya isn’t much more than a bump on the road to Nablus. Standing in the shadow of Israel, cordoned off by security measures, Qalqilya is home to 50,000 residents of the Palestinian Territories. Traffic...

Hamas says pro-Abbas forces arrest 4 Hamas members

Ramallah - The fundamentalist Hamas movement said on Saturday that Palestinian security forces arrested four members of the fundamentalist Islamic movement in the West Bank. The detentions took place in Bethlehem, Tulkarm and...

Haaretz: Welcome to year 41

By Michael Sfard To view original article, published by Haaretz, click here The military commander of the West Bank, Major General Gadi Shamni, is a busy man. He has a country to run, and he has no separation of powers to worry...

The Dr. Doolittle of the West Bank

In a downtrodden West Bank town, one man dreams of creating a world-class zoo. By Marjorie Kehe | June 4, 2008 edition The Zoo on the Road to Nablus: A Story of Survival from the West Bank By Amelia Thomas PublicAffairs 293 pp....

Bush’s bankrupt vision

By Noam Chomsky In Mid-May, President Bush travelled to the Middle East to establish his legacy more firmly in the part of the world that has been the prime focus of his presidency. The trip had two principal destinations, each...

IDF detains 3 Palestinian wanted men in Qalqilya

An IDF patrol arrested three Palestinian wanted men during an operation in the West Bank city of Qalqilya. The patrol searched the buildings in which the men were hiding and found a gun and two magazines. The men have been transferred to security forces for questioning....

Israeli forces storm Qalqilya, arrest five

Israeli forces on Tuesday arrested five Palestinians in an ongoing raid into West Bank city of Qalqilya, Palestinian security sources said. The detainees were taken from houses and apartment buildings stormed by the soldiers, the sources said, adding that at least two of the detainees were...

We know what’s best for you

Jeffrey Goldberg know what ails Israel and tells us in Israel's America Problem: When I spoke to Mr. Olmert a few days after his meeting with the Conference of Presidents, he made only brief mention of his Diaspora antagonists; he said that certain American Jews he would not name have been ...

IDF approves establishment of 20 Palestinian police stations in West Bank

The IDF approved Monday the establishment of 20 Palestinian police stations in the West Bank as part of easing restrictions on the Palestinians. Four stations have been established so far – near the West Bank cities of Tulkarem and Qalqilya. The stations’ establishment is part of a series of...