West Bank

Every time I hear the term "West Bank", I think of the pollution of language that has led to the assassination of the word "Palestine".

BBC News - Home 2011

ZOHAR: Yes, the situation is -- you know, Netanya is about less than seven miles from Tulkarem (ph), and what you call the West Bank, the (INAUDIBLE) area.

CNN Transcript Jul 12, 2005 2005

Tomorrow, Soledad, we're going to go across the river to what they call the West Bank here, Algiers, Louisiana, and it really is a tale of two cities there.

CNN Transcript Nov 2, 2005 2005

Not only does it call the West Bank "Judea and Samaraia" (the term used for the West Bank only by pro-settler Israelis), it then mentions the term West Bank but puts quotation marks around it i.e., the so-called West Bank.

MJ Rosenberg: Senate and House Doves Attend Israeli Settler Pep Rally On Capitol Hill 2009

This has no legitimacy in international law, yet Israel gets away with it, and it's the reason it calls the West Bank (and formerly Gaza) "disputed," not "occupied."

Jeff Halper's "An Israeli in Palestine" - Part II 2008

This has no legitimacy in international law, yet Israel gets away with it, and it's the reason it calls the West Bank (and formerly Gaza) "disputed," not "occupied."

Jeff Halper's "An Israeli in Palestine" - Part II 2008

Whether or not we'll see potential flooding coming in from Lake Pontchartrain or if that storm surge coming up the Mississippi River and coming in from the Bayous, will test the levees on what's called the West Bank, which is the southern side of the Mississippi River.

CNN Transcript Sep 1, 2008 2008

The remaining 22% became known as the West Bank and Gaza strip.

Film: Route 181 2004

The remaining 22% became known as the West Bank and Gaza strip.

Dove's Eye View: 2004

Livni to Miliband: U.K. plan to label West Bank goods is

WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2009