Israeli Policy and the West Bank

The municipal elections held on the Israeli-occupied West Bank this April resulted in a decisive victory for a new generation of Palestinian nationalists. In town after town, the enlarged electorate (including women for the first time) turned out in record numbers and voted out the traditional leadership, the old notables whose authority dates back to Jordanian, British, and even Turkish times. These results were not entirely surprising, given the economic and political changes on the West Ba...