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Fast Forward CIA Is Helping Palestinian Authority Wiretap People, Leaked Documents Claim
(JTA) — A leaked document alleges that the Palestinian Authority has been wiretapping its residents with the backing of the CIA. The document was shared on the messaging service WhatsApp by an anonymous employee of the Palestinian wiretapping agency last month, according to The Associated Press. It says the agency was set up jointly by three…
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Community The Destruction Of Susya Would Spell Disaster For Israel
This past summer, as a J Street U intern in Israel, I visited two West Bank towns by the same name: the Palestinian village of Susya and the nearby Israeli settlement of Susya. I expected to see a disparity between them, but what I witnessed was shocking injustice. While the surrounding settlements and outposts were…
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Fast Forward Finnish-Palestinian Reporter Barred From Pence-Netanyahu Meeting After Refusing Strip Search
A Finnish journalist of Palestinian descent is claiming she asked to agree to a strip search Monday at Prime Minister Netanyahu’s office ahead of his visit with Vice President Pence, the Independent reported. The journalist claims she was asked to remove her bra after being taken behind a curtain for questioning, a pat-down and scanning…
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Opinion Democrats Are Turning From Israel – Because It’s Tainted By Trump
The latest Pew Research Center survey examining the partisan divide between Republicans and Democrats on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict makes for unsurprising but discomfiting reading. The decades-old truism about Israel being a bipartisan issue is on life support, with a 52% gap between Republicans and Democrats on sympathy for Israel over the Palestinians. It’s the biggest…
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Fast Forward It’s Palestinians’ Fault There’s No Peace, U.S. Ambassador Says After Attack
The murder of an Israeli father of six in a drive-by shooting Tuesday night in the West Bank led the U.S. Ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, to issue an unusual statement. “An Israeli father of six was killed last night in cold blood by Palestinian terrorists,” Friedman wrote on Twitter on Wednesday morning. “Hamas praises…
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Opinion I Am Living Under Apartheid In Hebron
I am a Palestinian living in Hebron. I live stateless with no rights. I have no rights to general assembly, no rights to free speech, to due process or to freedom of movement. I get 10% of the water illegal settlers living next to me get. I am not allowed to walk down the streets…
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Opinion Charles Bronfman: Abandoning The Two-State Solution Means Abandoning The Jewish Soul
I’m probably known to the Jewish community as a co-founder, along with my dear friend Michael Steinhardt, of Birthright Israel, a remarkable program that has seen 600,000 participants exercise their birthright via an educational visit to Israel. However, since I was 17 I’ve been involved in the Jewish world. My parents led the way, as…
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Letters Letter: If Two Thirds Of Palestinians Want Peace, It’s Time To End The Occupation
Dear Jane, I am a Philadelphian who has admired your journalism and writing for many years. I read with great interest your piece in the January Forward magazine about your Encounter trip in the West Bank this past November. I agree positive recognition is deserved by Palestinians who dissent and protest non-violently. When you report,…
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