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Fast Forward How Payments To Terrorists Became An Issue At The Trump-Abbas Meeting
Persistent advocacy by right-of-center pro-Israel groups succeeded in impacting the agenda of President Trump’s meeting with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday. At issue was the Palestinian Authority’s policy of providing funds to families of terrorists killed by Israeli forces and prisoners jailed in Israel on terrorism charges. The Israeli government has highlighted this issue…
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Fast Forward Abbas Cuts Off Power Payments For Gaza In Bid To Pressure Hamas
With the prospect looming of a Middle East peace initiative by a new U.S. administration more sympathetic to Israel, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has decided to turn the screw on the Hamas group that has kept Gaza out of his control for a decade. Abbas’s Western-backed Palestinian Authority (PA) on Thursday told Israel it would…
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Opinion What You Need To Know About Marwan Barghouti
To some observers, Marwan Barghouti promises a path to peace. To others, he inspires liberation. And to his jailers, he is a mass murdering terrorist. Marwan Barghouti is widely seen as the most popular political figure in Palestinian society, but he is currently serving a life sentence for murder in an Israeli prison. Last week,…
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Life Two Feminists, Israeli And Palestinian, Find Common Cause
Hamutal Gouri Donald Trump’s election to the presidency was a painful hit for many women, but also gave rise to one of the finest hours of American feminism. However, alongside the inspiring feminist resistance, a fierce controversy is arising these days regarding the boundaries of feminism; specifically, regarding the question whether the American feminist movement…
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Opinion How Bibi’s Arrest Or Election Defeat Could Revive The Peace Process
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who faces a police investigation regarding very expensive gifts that he allegedly received during his tenure, recently raised the option of calling early elections for the Knesset. He used an odd excuse for the timing, something about the reform of electronic media, but political observers believe that his real motive…
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Community What We Talk About When We Don’t Talk About The Nakba
In recent weeks, I have been paying particular attention to the arguments in favor of Zionism from those who call themselves progressive Zionists and call for a two-state solution, support Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state, and express criticism of some of Israel’s policies and actions. More precisely, I have been paying attention…
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Fast Forward Jason Greenblatt’s Kippah Went Missing, And The Israelis Were Baffled
President Trump’s adviser on international negotiations just concluded his first trip to the Middle East and won a round of praise from all sides, for his openness and inclusiveness in approaching the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But some in the Israeli press and on social media noticed another fact: Greenblatt, who is Orthodox, showed up to his…
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Fast Forward Arab-Israeli Lawmaker Who Smuggled Phones Into Jail To Serve 2 Years
(JTA) — An Arab-Israeli lawmaker who allegedly smuggled cell phones to Palestinian terrorists in Israeli prisons will resign and serve two years in jail as part of a plea bargain, Israeli media reported. Basel Ghattas of the Balad Party, which is part of the Arab Joint List, was suspended In January by the Knesset Ethics Committee….
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