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Opinion Hamas Gains Popularity After Gaza
Hours after Operation Pillar of Defense came to an end last month, here at the Forward we published an article suggesting that the campaign could boost Hamas. It was early days, but new polling seems to indicate that this scenario is panning out. The independent Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PSR) has just…
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Fast Forward Israel Strike on Gaza Media Illegal: Watchdog
Israel’s killing of two Palestinian journalists and attacks on media facilities during its Gaza offensive last month violated the laws of war, Human Rights Watch said on Thursday. Two cameramen working for al-Aqsa TV, a station affiliated with Gaza’s Hamas-run government, were killed by Israeli air strikes on their car on Nov. 20. Israeli planes…
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Fast Forward U.N. General Assembly Adopts Nine Resolutions Condemning Israel
The United Nations General Assembly adopted nine resolutions on the topics of Palestinian rights and the Golan Heights. The resolutions adopted Tuesday criticized Israel for “the continuing systematic violation of the human rights of the Palestinian people,” and focused on “the extremely difficult socioeconomic conditions being faced by the Palestine refugees” in the West Bank…
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Opinion Chuck Hagel’s Pushback
In a two-page document titled “Facts on Chuck Hagel” supporters of the former Nebraska Senator are fighting back against claims he is anti-Israel. The paper, unsigned and circulated among reporters, attempts to refute claims raised against Hagel by some in the pro-Israel community and statements, including in a Washington Post editorial, that he is not…
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Fast Forward Israeli Arab Barred From Running in Election
srael’s Central Elections Committee voted to disqualify Arab lawmaker Hanin Zoabi from next month’s elections but voted to allow two Arab parties to run. The elections committee on Wednesday voted 19 to 9, with one abstention, to disqualify Zoabi, despite a decision the previous day by Israel’s Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein that there is not…
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Fast Forward Richard Falk Bounced From Rights Group
Human Rights Watch has removed Richard Falk, United Nations special rapporteur on Palestinian human rights, from one of its local committees. Falk, who has compared Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians to the actions of the Nazis and suggested that the U.S. government may have had foreknowledge of the 9/11 attacks, was removed Tuesday from the…
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Israel News Israel’s Rightward Shift Sparks Worries
Election fever in Israel has Americans playing catch-up in an attempt to grasp the country’s political shifts and realignments. The Israeli elections, scheduled for January 22, 2013, will feature a Likud list dominated by representatives of the right wing and the settler communities, and a fractured political center that is split into four competing parties….
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Opinion No Run-of-the-Mill Islamists
Hezbollah and Hamas have been capturing the world’s headlines for nearly 30 years. These two notorious organizations share more than just an enemy in Israel and an ally in Iran. Hezbollah has also served as a model for Hamas, with similar political structures, terrorist and military tactics, propaganda apparatuses and social welfare systems. Cooperation between…
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