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Rumana Ahmed

...around peace efforts for Israel and Palestine . Key players that even he recognize...
...here in the US but also in Israel and Palestine ? Then, a particular angle that ...
...also an inspiration for young voices in Palestine , and Israel as well, too. It wa...
...peace negotiations around Israel and Palestine ? There really is a direct impact. I...
...Kerry goes and engages in Israel and Palestine ? So, that happened. Then, aroun...

William Taylor

...Iraq, in Afghanistan, and in Israel- Palestine . As we talked briefly earlier, I'...
...on Afghanistan and Iraq and Israel- Palestine . So just as an informed observer, a...

Michael Posner

...to the Israeli military presence in Gaza in 2009. That was a highly contentiou...

Jefferey DeLaurentis

...same day that the Brazilians recognized Palestine , a Palestinian state. I initiall...

William Burns

...had just been at a public event on the West Bank where Yasser Arafat's wife [Suh...

Colin Kahl

...in the context of withdrawal from the West Bank . Which would ultimately be necessar...
...Israeli experience was, when they left Gaza , and when they left southern Lebanon...
...them to, ultimately, withdraw from the West Bank . The memo circulated and became ...

Kenneth Roth

...to Israel, despite bombings in Gaza and the like, until right at the end...
...again, is Israel, where the US opposed Palestine , which had been recognized as a stat...
...by the UN General Assembly, opposed Palestine then ratifying the Internationa...

Akram Dweikat

...connected Silicon Valley investors to Palestine . He is now based in London where h...
...they finished their high school in Palestine , then they went to the US to continu...
...that I never traveled outside the West Bank , for multiple reasons. Mainly, m...
...all happened, and he came back to Palestine . He did whatever job he can, but h...
...very first women to drive a car in the West Bank . People would point to me, and say...

...offices. But accessing someone in the West Bank was really hard. They couldn'...
...didn't really function properly in the West Bank . So I was like, Okay, the other tric...
...“Why are you trying to do this in the West Bank of all places? What a difference it'...
...lot of initiatives that happened in the West Bank , because we kicked something. There i...
...It's very positive, coming out of the West Bank .” The other interesting thing tha...
...of female in the Middle East, and Palestine specifically. Just culturally, I think...
...I never had traveled outside of the West Bank , and was my whole identity as tech. ...
...step in. Because we were in the West Bank and the embassy is in Tel Aviv. W...
...it's impossible, because we live in the West Bank and we're not allowed. The Israel...
...That was my first trip ever outside of Palestine . First time I see a sea, first time ...
...Yeah, and all my life I was, like, the West Bank is the world. Out of a sudden luck...
...would be a bigger project across the West Bank . The al-Bireh center would be the mai...
...like, in the north and the south of the West Bank . Jabal An-Nar was the hub for that...
...way. We still cannot access most of the West Bank . We still cannot access Eas...
...Obama into the picture. He visited the West Bank in 2008 as a candidate. I wonde...
...other startups in the Middle East, in Palestine specifically. You have some fund, an...
...connecting the startups we have in Palestine with events or things in Silico...
...the airport, as a Palestinian of the West Bank , you need to cross to Jordan and fl...
...go to the president.” So I go back to West Bank . I can tell you the story in detail...
...were us and the US ambassador to Palestine and the guy who was from the president...
...guys, remember you are representing Palestine . Don't feel like not saying anything...
...“Oh, you should have asked him to free Palestine .” I was like, “Okay, my job was not t...
...of people said I should have asked for Palestine back. And I was like, Maybe, maybe ...
...so striking, does very explicitly raise Palestine 's status, the inability to visi...
...from Nablus, or Beita village in the West Bank , who ended up having a sit-dow...
...an engineering degree's five years in Palestine , not four. So I was working on that. ...
...access talent way more easily than in Palestine at the time. People who have run bi...
...my master's, but I went back to Palestine because I still wanted to do more fo...
...going. A little bit less now in Palestine , considering more remote, but I a...
...is the gardens project in Palestine . Can you tell me when that started an...
...regard to tech infrastructure in the West Bank and in Nablus growing up. I wondere...
...who wants to think beyond the West Bank , are there more opportunities to d...
...idea we can bridge Silicon Valley or Palestine or other places, and a lot of othe...
...are a bunch of accelerators in the West Bank and there is a lot of seed funding...

Hillary Clinton

...to be police officers in the West Bank . And, until recently, very recently...
...also had tried to install—this was the West Bank Ramallah Palestinians—had tried t...
...they called for elections in both Gaza and the West Bank. And at the time the...
...for elections in both Gaza and the West Bank . And at the time they called fo...
...was still nominally in charge in Gaza . An uneasy and quite violen...

...and thousands of so-called officials in Gaza . It was a way of just basically buyin...
...was preparing for a ground invasion of Gaza . And we thought, “That's all we need...
...acolytes in Syria and Lebanon, and in Gaza , was just a development they could no...

Jerome Sauvage

...have programming in Jerusalem, on the Palestine -occupied territory. We get US funding...

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