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Fast Forward Trump: Israelis And Palestinians Both Want Peace
WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Trump said he believes there is a chance for Israeli-Palestinian peace because both sides are committed to it. “I think we have a chance of doing it, I think the Palestinians would like to see it happen, I think the Israelis would like to see it happen and usually when you…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Journalist Arrested In West Bank After Criticizing Abbas
A Palestinian journalist was arrested over the weekend for writing a Facebook post critical of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas — and a prominent activist was in turn arrested for criticizing that arrest. Palestinian security forces arrested radio reporter Ayman Qawasmeh on Sunday, with local media reporting that the arrests came after he called for…
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Fast Forward Abbas Hospitalized For Exhaustion And Stress
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was hospitalized in Ramallah on Saturday for what his spokesman called a routine medical checkup. But doctors and Palestinian officials speaking anonymously on Sunday told media outlets that Abbas, 82, was hospitalized due to exhaustion and stress. Abbas is overweight and a heavy smoker, though he reportedly…
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Fast Forward Israeli Soldiers Raid Palestinian Media Facility, Citing ‘Incitement’
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli soldiers raided the offices of PalMedia, a Palestinian media production company, in the West Bank city of Ramallah early Saturday morning. The forces seized equipment and documents from at least one of the offices, on suspicion of “incitement to terrorism,” according to the Israel Defense Forces. PalMedia provides broadcast services to…
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Fast Forward Abbas Cancels Security Coordination Meetings With Israel
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas canceled scheduled security coordination meetings between Israeli and Palestinian officials. The meetings were cancelled on Sunday, two days after Abbas announced that Palestinian leaders have frozen all contact with Israel over newly installed security measures at the Temple Mount. It is the first time that security cooperation…
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Opinion Jane Looking Forward: From Gaza To Shoes And Shakespeare
Gaza. It’s the four-letter word of the Middle East. Nobody wants to say it. Nobody wants to think about it. Yet the contentious strip of land controlled by Hamas issued last week described living conditions as “more and more wretched” and predicted that the coastal enclave would become unlivable as soon as 2020. Electricity is…
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Opinion The Israeli Right Is Terrified of Peace — And Their Jerusalem Bill Proves It
The man who heads the right flank of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing Israeli governing coalition, Education Minister Naftali Bennett, issued on Sunday what amounts to an extraordinary public acknowledgment: that a peace agreement with the Palestinians is possible — and indeed that negotiators had come within “a hair’s breadth” of concluding an agreement several…
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Fast Forward Senate Democrats Edge Closer To Cutting Aid To Palestinian Authority
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Top Senate Democrats said they were closer to signing on to a Republican-backed bill that would slash aid to the Palestinian Authority if it did not stop subsidizing Palestinians jailed for attacks on Israel. Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer told attendants at the Orthodox Union’s annual Washington action day on Thursday that…
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