This is the Forward’s coverage of the Gaza Strip, a Palestinian territory on the Mediterranean sea bordering Israel. Israel withdrew from the strip in 2005, ceding direct control to the Palestinian Authority, but it maintains strict indirect control.
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Fast Forward Israeli Professor Suggests Rape Would Serve as ‘Terror Deterrent’
(Haaretz) — “The only thing that can deter terrorists, like those who kidnapped the children and killed them, is the knowledge that their sister or their mother will be raped.” This assertion was made by Middle East scholar Dr. Mordechai Kedar of Bar-Ilan University on an Israel Radio program. “It sounds very bad, but that’s…
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Fast Forward Israel Says Gaza ‘Ceasefire Not Near’ as Carnage Mounts and Airlines Halt Flights
Israel pounded targets across the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, saying no ceasefire was near as top U.S. and United Nations diplomats pursued talks on halting the fighting that has claimed more than 600 lives. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry held discussions in neighboring Egypt, while U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon met Prime Minister Benjamin…
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Fast Forward Israel Says Missing Soldier Is Dead — Not Captive — as Gaza Fighting Rages
(Reuters) — Israel said on Tuesday it had failed to trace any remains of one of its soldiers whom it believes died in the Gaza Strip two days ago, and whom Hamas has said it captured. The Israeli military named the missing man as Oron Shaul, 21, who was traveling in an armored vehicle that…
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Fast Forward Doomed Israeli Soldier From Texas Insisted on Going Into Gaza Battle
(Reuters) — Three days before he was killed fighting for Israel in Gaza, American Nissim Sean Carmeli sprained his ankle, and a doctor asked the Texan if he wanted to heal before going into action. He refused, according to Maya Kadosh, Israel’s deputy consul for the U.S. Southwest. “He said no. He said he wanted…
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Fast Forward Arab-Israelis Clash With Police at Demonstration Against Operation in Gaza
Arab-Israeli protesters clashed with police at a demonstration in Nazareth against Israel’s military operation in Gaza. About 200 protesters threw rocks and glass bottles at police, according to reports on the demonstration Monday night in the northern Israeli city. Ten demonstrators were arrested. Some 3,000 Arab-Israelis attended the rally. Among those involved in clashes with…
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Israel News Max Steinberg’s Jewish Journey From Los Angeles Suburb to Death in Gaza
(Haaretz) — The death of a 24-year-old Birthright graduate from L.A. has brought the battles taking place in the Middle East home for many in this Southern California community in a tangible and direct way – a rarity in a conflict that has been fought by proxy here via rallies and divestment votes. Max Steinberg,…
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The Schmooze The Middle East Crisis, According to Woody Allen
The situation in Gaza is ?a terrible, tragic thing. Innocent lives are lost left and right, and it?s a horrible situation that eventually has to right itself,? Woody Allen declared in an interview about his new movie, Magic in the Moonlight. Asked about the Israel-Palestine conflict, Allen explained, ?I feel that the Arabs were not…
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Life Those Boys on Gaza Beach Remind Me of My Brother
Sarah Seltzer with her twin brother as children. I have a twin brother who, as a kid, frequently ran around outside with a ball and his friends ? usually in New York?s parks. Woe to the teachers at our Jewish day school who denied them gym or recess: they acted up extra-rambunctiously when they were…
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