What the West Bank Actually Looks Like

Commentary Magazine ^ | 7/21/2009 | Michael J. Totten

[Jbny]

Last week, the New York Times published an article about “signs of hope” in the West Bank (and in the city of Nablus in particular) that refreshingly breaks with the standard narrative of Palestinian desperation and misery. The Israeli military recently closed down its checkpoint into the city, along with other checkpoints elsewhere in the territories. The economy is growing instead of contracting. Downtown is full of shoppers. Islamist scolds have backed off. Police make sure passengers have fastened their seat belts.

[mikelets456]

We need to apologize to the terrorists for foiling their well thought out plans.....

[Uri’el-2012]

The West Bank had been called Judea and Samaria
for more than 2000 years, according to the Tanakh.

shalom b'SHEM Yah'shua HaMashiach

[Dallas59]

Looks better than some places in the USA...Goes to show you, you can’t rely on the MSM for accurate reporting..

[Islander7]

Colonel Miri Eisen shows which cities would be at
risk if Hamas fired rockets from both the West Bank
and Gaza

Gaza City is not such a bad place.

[BwanaNdege]

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/49/112979073_24ca9dc6da.jpg

But, but, but....(sputter, sputter, sputter) where are all the poor, suffering refugees living in ragged tents pitched on the jagged rubble of their ancestral homes, homes destroyed by the incessant Israeli bombardment targeted at women, children and minorities? /sarc

Not exactly the image brought to mind by the term “refugee camp” is it. I guess the incessant images in the MSM of that other Muslin associated refugee camp situation, Darfur, have warped my understanding of what constitutes a ‘refugee camp”

[colorado tanker]

Boy, don't let the Iranians, Hamas and Hezbollah find out there is a patch of the Arab world that isn't a hell on earth.

[Westbrook]

> Gaza City is not such a bad place.

The Jews built it.

The Paleo-stinkians turned it into a squalid hellhole in two weeks.

The “International Community” REBUILT it.

The Paleo-stinkians just use it as a base from which to launch rockets and suicide bombers.

[Fred Nerks]

Patrolling the streets, Nablus.

[SunkenCiv]

Good thing the streets are wide. ;’)

[Valin]

Thank You.