41.   Instead, Israel has moved to expand Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, areas where Palestinians hope to establish a state.

42.   It is trying to develop Palestinian institutions to ensure good governance once a Palestinian state is established.

43.   Local Kurdish authorities accused Baghdad of hiring the men to kill foreigners in the region, where a de-facto Kurdish state was established following the Gulf War.

44.   Mahmoud Abbas, a senior PLO official, said this week he expected a state to be established before the autonomy period was up.

45.   Mahmoud Abbas, a senior PLO official, also said this week that he expected a state to be established before the autonomy period was up.

46.   No one doubts that a state has been established with a sacred mission to provide prosperity and security for their citizens.

47.   Netanyahu promised religious parties not to establish Palestinian state.

48.   Palestinian fear settlement expansion erodes their chances of someday establishing a state in the West Bank and Gaza.

49.   Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat denounced the settlement expansion in an area where the Palestinians hope to establish their state and said the construction was negatively affecting peace talks.

50.   Palestinians fear the expansion of Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Gaza will destroy their last hopes of someday establishing a state there.