This is the Forward’s coverage of the Palestinian people, an Arab ethnic group native to the Middle East. They are a party to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Fast Forward Vatican To Raise Flag at UN for Pope — Palestinians for Abbas
The Vatican flag will be raised for the first time at the United Nations on Friday morning ahead of Pope Francis’ visit to the world body, the Holy See mission to the United Nations said on Monday. Pope Francis is due to address the United Nations in New York on Friday during his first visit…
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Fast Forward Most Palestinians Now Oppose Two-State Solution
More than half of Palestinians no longer support a two-state solution to the conflict with Israel, a survey released on Monday showed, rejecting the goal that has underpinned four decades of international diplomacy. The poll by the Palestinian Centre for Policy and Survey Research, a leading research group in the Palestinian territories, found that 51…
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Fast Forward Israeli Troops Critically Wound Palestinian Protester on West Bank
A Palestinian man who hurled a firebomb at an Israeli car near a settlement was critically injured by soldiers who fired back at him, in one of several violent clashes in the West Bank and Jerusalem. Passengers escaped injury in the incident Thursday night near the settlement of Itamar in Samaria, where Israel Defense Forces…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Detainee Restarts Hunger Striker After Arrest
Israel rearrested a Palestinian security prisoner who recovered from a 65-day hunger strike. Mohammed Allaan, 33, was taken in Wednesday after being released from the Barzilai Medical Center in Ashkelon, in southern Israel. He was sent to a prison in central Israel. Allaan reportedly decided to restart his hunger strike once he was returned to…
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Fast Forward The Palestinian Kingmaker Who Wants Mahmoud Abbas’s Job
He is in the view of some Palestinians, and perhaps his own mind, the man who would be king. From his roots in a Gaza refugee camp, Mohammed Dahlan scrambled to the top of Palestinian politics by his early 40s, backed by a reputation as a charismatic enforcer, someone who commanded loyalty and got things…
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Fast Forward Jeremy Corbyn, Pro-Palestinian Leftist, Wins Control of British Labour Party
Jeremy Corbyn, a left-wing British politician who reportedly holds anti-Israel views and is a vocal supporter of the Palestinian cause, was elected the new leader of Britain’s Labor Party. Corbyn won in the first round of voting with 59.5 percent of the vote. Britain’s last Labor leader was Ed Miliband, who is Jewish. He stepped…
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Fast Forward UN Votes 119-8 To Allow Palestinian Flag To Fly
The United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution allowing what it officially recognizes as the “State of Palestine” and the Vatican to raise their flags outside the organization’s facilities. In a 119-8 vote on Thursday, with 45 abstentions, the General Assembly approved the move allowing the two entities, both nonmember observer states, to raise their…
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Fast Forward Thousands Mourn Palestinian Mother Slain With Family in Jewish Terror Attack
The mother of a Palestinian toddler killed in a July arson attack in the Israeli-occupied West Bank died on Monday of her burns, the third fatality after her husband succumbed to his injuries last month. Soon after the announcement by medical authorities, Palestinians rallied in the family’s home village of Duma, calling for a “day…
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