This shows navigators the direction of north, and therefore also south, east and west.

VOA: special.2010.07.14

So each hour's time difference between the ship and the starting point marks a ship's progress of fifteen degrees of longitude to the east or west.

VOA: special.2010.07.14

The western part is west of the Hawaiian Islands and east of Japan.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

The little city of Cape May lies at the end of a narrow piece of land with the Atlantic Ocean to the east and the Delaware Bay to the west.

VOA: special.2009.06.01

U.S.officials have put pressure on the Israeli government to halt construction of settlements in east Jerusalem and the West Bank.

VOA: standard.2009.11.17

Mr.Obama has lost popularity in Israel because of American pressure to halt Jewish settlement expansion in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

VOA: standard.2009.08.29

Vivian Fung thinks that audiences will be surprised - and pleased - by the fusion of East and West, and old and new.

VOA: standard.2010.07.01

"Fishing is going to go on whether it be on the west side of the river or the east side of the river."

VOA: standard.2010.05.08

Palestinians want east Jerusalem to be the capital of a future state they hope to establish in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

VOA: standard.2009.11.17

They were inspired by the fall of the Berlin Wall a week earlier, which had divided East and West Germany for more than a quarter of a century.

VOA: standard.2009.11.17

The Palestinians say direct talks will not happen until Israel stops building in the occupied West Bank and in East Jerusalem, a precondition they had not placed in prior rounds of negotiations.

VOA: standard.2010.05.03

The Palestinians claim the West Bank and East Jerusalem as territory for a future state, and they have conditioned a resumption of peace talks on a halt to all Israeli construction in those areas.

VOA: standard.2009.12.07

The freeze does not include 3,000 Jewish homes already under construction in the West Bank and does not apply to disputed East Jerusalem, which the Palestinians seek as the capital of their future state.

VOA: standard.2010.01.03

Just over two weeks after the start of the German invasion in the west, Soviet troops entered Poland in the east and later occupied the Baltic states as well as parts of Finland and Romania.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

The head of the Beirut-based Carnegie Center for Peace in the Middle East,Paul Salem, says Arab states like Libya and Egypt are trying to demonstrate they are independent of the West by striking a middle-ground with respect to President Bashir.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

"The challenge of Iran truly today, has been revealed more than ever with their most recent missile test which has a capability of striking to the West as far as southeastern Europe,Turkey, but to the East could strike our allies in Pakistan,"

VOA: standard.2009.05.20

Despite U.S.demands for Israel to stop or restrain construction of Jewish housing in disputed East Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank, during the Biden visit Israeli officials announced their approval of construction of 1,600 new Jewish housing units in East Jerusalem.

VOA: standard.2010.03.11

A senior Middle East analyst with the International Crisis Group in Jerusalem,Rob Blecher, says frustration over continued expansion of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, and the general lack of progress toward achieving a Palestinian state,has prompted the Palestinian leadership to look for new strategies.

VOA: standard.2010.05.03

Smith says American academicians and journalists often cite a list of root causes for Middle East turmoil, in which the U.S., the West and Israel usually play a big part: a history of colonialism and economic exploitation, the creation of Israel and American support for the Jewish state, the politics of oil, Western backing of repressive Arab regimes and the U.S.military presence in the region.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18