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West Bank Settlement Update
- Artist: Melinda Tuhus
- Length: 4:22 minutes (4.01 MB)
- Format: MP3 Mono 44kHz 128Kbps (CBR)
France's Nicolas Sarkozy is in Israel today – marking the first visit by a French president in a dozen years. Sarkozy staunchly pledged to protect the Jewish state from a nuclear threat by Iran and proposed sending French troops to help Israel. Poising himself as a Middle East peace broker, Sarkozy also criticized Jewish settlers in the West Bank – saying that there can be no peace without putting an end to the settlements in the Occupied Territories. On a high hill overlooking several existing Israeli settlements, one Palestinian family has been fighting Israel's effort to take its land for almost two decades. Melinda Tuhus reports from Bethlehem.
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