Sentence examples for block of settlements from inspiring English sources

Nahallin sits right inside the Etzion block of settlements, with only one road out, towards Bethlehem.

The three twowo are reported to be 16 and the third 19 – went missing near the Gush Etzion block of settlements late on Thursday night, near Hebron on the West Bank.

It took some 1,000 acres of virgin hills for a proposed new city, Givaot, doubling the population of the Gush Etzion block of settlements sprawling on the hills around Bethlehem.But it was not enough for the area's Israeli mayor, Davidi Perl.

In return, Israel would be allowed to retain a block of settlements housing 80percentt of the current West Bank settler population and would not be obliged to accept the return of Palestinian refugees displaced from homes in what is now the Jewish state.

The quality-of-life settlers are those who moved to the West Bank primarily for economic reasons, the majority of whom live in the block of settlements located closer to the green line.

Mr. Netanyahu said he might back the plan if Mr. Sharon achieved an "appropriate return," including support for retraining some blocks of settlements in the West Bank, from the United States.

Thuggery, as usual ReprintsMr Barak, unwilling to uproot all the 200,000-odd settlers in the West Bank, wants to annex three blocks of settlements close to the pre-1967 border, leaving some 50 smaller ones inside the Palestinian state.

But two or three blocks of settlements would remain under Israeli sovereignty: one at Gush Etzion, south of Bethlehem; one at Ariel (meaning a deep finger of land stretching from the border into the West Bank); and one at Maale Adumim, east of Jerusalem.

Thuggery, as usual The law v the state The distance between them The high price of Nigeria's oil Thabo Mbeki, micro-manager ReprintsMr Barak, unwilling to uproot all the 200,000-odd settlers in the West Bank, wants to annex three blocks of settlements close to the pre-1967 border, leaving some 50 smaller ones inside the Palestinian state.

He might offer a more generous land swap in exchange for the blocks of settlements near the old border which he wants to annex to Israel.Given the Palestinian position, and indeed his own poor standing in Israeli polls, all this may seem fanciful.

These settlers can be resettled in the three blocks of settlements along the 1967 border (consisting of 43 settlements in which more than 214,000 settlers reside) which will, by agreement with the Palestinians, likely become part of Israel proper in an equitable land swap.