Nour Odeh, Al Jazeera’s West Bank correspondent, has covered the Israeli-Palestinian conflict extensively for over nine years.
Before her assignment to Ramallah, Nour covered the besieged Gaza Strip. When Al Jazeera English won the Golden Nymph award in 2008 for “Best 24 Hour News Program” at the Monte Carlo Television Festival, jurors singled out Nour for her bravery in reporting from Gaza.
<P>The isolation and austerity of life under Israeli occupation is hard to imagine, much less cope with. But the Palestinian way life in the West Bank is not a reality of choice; it is one forced on their communities.</P>
<P>It is olive harvest in the occupied Palestinian Territory and all talk is now about this Palestinian must.</P>
<P>In speaking about the principles of law and accountability, which are in theory the tenants of international diplomacy, Abbas was also sending a basic message.</P>
<p>Obama did not talk about consequences of actions or inactions… And he did not mention the most central of points: this conflict is about occupation, not a dispute.</p>
<p>The sticky, or rather explosive, issue was Israel’s illegal settlement construction in the Occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem.</p>
