YASSER ARAFART
MICHAEL MOORE
GARRISON KEILLOR
Israels settlements in the West Bank, one of the most emotional issues of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, have gone mainstream among Israelis. Places once viewed with skepticism, if not downright hostility, by other Israelis are now home to 450,000 Israelis, up from 116,300 in 1993. They account for 15% of the total population of the West Bank...
The "West Bank" is a recent (1948) invention -- the racist Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan ethnically cleansed (through murder and expulsion) the Jews of eastern Jerusalem (there is not and never has been a polity called "East Jerusalem), Judea and Samaria.