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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Israel News Netanyahu Says Two-State Solution Is No Longer Relevant
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared on Sunday that the “Bar Ilan speech,” from June 2009, in which he expressed support for creating a “demilitarized Palestinian state that would recognize the Jewish state,” is no longer relevant, in light of the current reality in the Middle East. Netanyahu made the statement at a Likud party press…
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Fast Forward U.N. Secretary General Worried About Planned Palestinian Security Cut With Israel
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed concern on Friday at a decision by Palestinian leaders in the West Bank to halt security coordination with Israel and called for the international community to push for a Middle East peace deal. The Palestinian Central Council, whose votes are usually binding on the Western-backed Palestinian Authority, said on…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Car Attacker Hurts 5 in Jerusalem
A Palestinian motorist rammed his vehicle into a group of people standing near a Jerusalem tram stop on Friday, injuring at least five, including four security officials, Israeli police said. None of those hit was seriously injured. The incident, which police said they were treating as a terrorist attack, took place on a main road…
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Fast Forward Palestinians Vote To Suspend Security Cooperation With Israel
Palestinian leaders in the West Bank said on Thursday they would halt the security coordination with Israel which is widely credited with keeping order in the territory and preventing attacks in Israel. The Palestinian Central Council, whose votes are usually binding on the Western-backed Palestinian Authority, said it made the decision because Israel had breached…
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Fast Forward 3,000 Israeli Women Rally for Peace
Three thousand women protested outside the Israeli Knesset calling for an Israeli-Palestinian peace accord. The protest Wednesday was held by Women Wage Peace, an Israeli organization founded after last summer’s war in Gaza that supports a peace agreement. According to the Times of Israel, the group has 7,000 members. At the protest, the women formed…
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Fast Forward Mahmoud Abbas Calls Israel ‘Gangster’ State as Palestinians Rethink Security Ties
(Reuters) — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas accused Israel of “gangsterism” on Wednesday over its decision to withhold the transfer of more than $100 million a month in tax revenues it collects on the Palestinians’ behalf. Opening a two-day meeting of senior Palestinian officials, when overall ties with Israel and the possibility of suspending security coordination…
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Fast Forward Palestinians To File International Criminal Court Complaint on April 1
The Palestinians plan to file their first complaints in International Criminal Court on April 1. The complaints will concern last summer’s Gaza war with Israel and Israel’s settlement activity, a Palestine Liberation Organization leader told the French news agency AFP. The Palestinians moved to formally join the Hague-based court in January, spurring Israel to retaliate…
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Israel News Gleaming Billion-Dollar Palestinian City Finally Sees Water on Horizon
Rawabi, the sparkling new — but still empty — Palestinian city in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, has announced that the crucial element keeping its streets and high-rises desolate and devoid of residents may finally be addressed. “At Last Universal Rights to Water Realized at Rawabi,” reads the headline in the project’s winter newsletter, which was…
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