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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News Israel Unit Boots Veterans Who Refused To Spy on Palestinians
Israel’s top military electronic surveillance unit expelled dozens of veterans on Monday for refusing to spy on Palestinians living under occupation, Army Radio said. The commander of Unit 8200, named as Brigadier-General “A,” barred the 43 reserve soldiers who wrote to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and top army chiefs in September, saying they could no…
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Opinion #JeSuisCouteau Trending After Tel Aviv Attack
This might just be the world’s worst hashtag — ever. Hours after a Palestinian terrorist stabbed 12 people on board a Tel Aviv bus, extremists took to social media to praise his actions with #JeSuisCouteau, which is French for “I am the knife.” The hashtag, a clear play on the #JeSuisCharlie hashtag used around the world…
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News Gaza Tech Entrepreneurs Seek To Break Virtual Israeli Blockade
(Reuters) — His company may not rival Google or German software maker SAP yet, but Gaza-based IT entrepreneur Saady Lozon has plans to change that. In nine years, Lozon and his partner Ahmed Abu Shaban have transformed their firm, Unit One, from a tiny outfit in a single room in the blockaded Gaza Strip into…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Stabs 12 on Tel Aviv Bus
At least 12 people were wounded, some seriously, when a Palestinian terrorist boarded a bus in Tel Aviv, stabbing the driver and passengers. Four victims, including the driver, remained in serious condition following the Wednesday morning attack, which Israeli reports say injured between 12 and 21 people. The assailant, a 23-year-old Palestinian man from the…
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Fast Forward Senator Threatens Aid Cut to Palestinians Over ICC ‘War Crimes’ Case
The Palestinians could lose annual U.S. aid if they file a lawsuit against Israel at the International Criminal Court which they joined this month over American and Israeli protests, a senior U.S. Republican senator said on Monday. Lindsey Graham, part of a seven-member delegation of senators visiting Israel, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, said existing U.S….
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Opinion Don’t Compare Ferguson and ‘Palestine’
(JTA) — The latest strategy being used by those who make a career of assaulting the good name of the State of Israel is to link the issue of full equality for African-Americans, as symbolized by the word “Ferguson,” with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. There is a long history of using legitimate American social justice issues…
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Fast Forward Arab Woman Makes Israel History by Running for Far Right Jewish Home Party
(JTA) — Outside the Moriah Synagogue in this central Israeli city, boys in ritual fringes and girls in long skirts handed out fliers for the dozens of candidates running in the Jan. 14 primary for the Jewish Home party, a right-wing, modern Orthodox faction. Religious voters trickled in and out of polls in the synagogue…
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Fast Forward Israel Lobbies Foreign Powers To Cut ICC Funding
Israel is lobbying member-states of the International Criminal Court to cut funding for the tribunal in response to its launch of an inquiry into possible war crimes in the Palestinian territories, officials said on Sunday. ICC prosecutors said on Friday they would examine “in full independence and impartiality” crimes that may have occurred since June…
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