Talk:West Bank

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Isn't it a bit strange to have a picture of the wall? The West Bank has a lot more to offer, I suppose.

[edit] POV

Seems like the edits keep going back to a pro-Israeli/settler viewpoint? I was trying to keep the guide objective -we should not see this occuring over and over again... Think of the situation in kosovo - are we to only offer a pro-Serbian or Kosovar view? hope we can take out the pro-Israeli bias or at least offer more neutral language!.. —The preceding comment was added by 69.215.158.15 (talk • contribs) .

Hmm, can you provide some examples? Are you referring to the Understand section, or to something more systematic? I suppose striving for objectivity is useful for the historical background section, but for the most part, the information here should be subjective—from the perspective of what we think a traveler should know. --Peter Talk 20:18, 13 April 2008 (EDT)

Sure, first off the West Bank is home to Christian and Muslim areas of interest too. Secondly, to refer to parts of Israel as part of the West Bank?? (as it maybe geograpically as this is the only way I can make sense of this statement, but not in the political sense!) is plain wrong. The territory is officially not part of any nation. period. To not mention anything of the PNA aspirations of the West Bank to be part of a future Palestine but to talk at length about settler policy is strange and to refer to Jewish settlers in the West Bank as ones returning from exile is clearly showing bias any way you look at it. Thanks for your quick interest to my post! Hope we can make the article more neutral as it has a great start!

Switched back the statement regarding the "liberation" of the west bank by Israel to an apolitical statement regarding occupation- the official term used by the media. Loosing hope that this article will ever meet the goal of pro-settler bias with such events...

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