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 Palestinians Ready Fresh Statehood Deadline Push at United Nations
Arab foreign ministers on Thursday endorsed a Palestinian plan to resubmit a draft resolution to the U.N. Security Council calling for Israel to withdraw from occupied territories by late 2017. The United States helped defeat a similar draft resolution in a Security Council vote on Dec. 30. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has said he hoped…
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Fast Forward U.N. ‘Alarmed’ by Downward Spiral in Mideast
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is alarmed that the Israelis and Palestinians are engaged in a downward spiral of actions and counter actions and calls on both sides not to exacerbate existing divisions, a senior U.N. official said on Thursday. Israel is withholding critical tax revenue and seeking ways to bring war crimes prosecutions against Palestinian leaders…
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Fast Forward $1B New York Terror Trial Starts for Palestinians
A U.S. trial to decide whether the Palestine Liberation Organization and Palestinian Authority should pay up to $1 billion for several terror attacks in Israel began on Tuesday. A lawyer for victims called the defendants’ alleged involvement “standard operating procedure” for the Palestinan groups and a defense lawyer countered by blaming others for the “horrific”…
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Opinion What Tim Willcox’s Paris Question Says About BBC
BBC journalist Tim Willcox / Screenshot Tim Willcox’s question was heinous in and of itself. In the midst of a BBC interview with an Israeli resident of Paris and daughter of Holocaust survivors, who had been talking about Jewish suffering in Europe, the journalist ventured: “But many critics of Israel’s policy would say that the…
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Fast Forward BBC Reporter Sorry for Saying Palestinians ‘Suffer at Jewish Hands’
BBC reporter Tim Willcox apologized after saying at the Paris unity march on television that Palestinians “suffer hugely at Jewish hands.” Willcox, who works for BBC News and BBC World News, on Twitter Monday morning tweeted, “Really sorry for any offence cause by a poorly phrased question in a live interview in Paris yesterday –…
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Fast Forward Israel’s Top General Says No Worries on War Crimes After Palestinians Join ICC
Israel’s top military officer said on Thursday he was disappointed rather than worried about a Palestinian move to join the International Criminal Court, calling it unnecessary because Israel could investigate complaints itself. Lieutenant General Benjamin Gantz, the chief of the Israel Defense Forces general staff, also said he was convinced the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter…
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Fast Forward Rand Paul Wants Aid to Palestinians Cut Over ICC Bid
Sen. Rand Paul introduced a bill that would cut U.S. funding to the Palestinian Authority until it withdraws its request to join the International Criminal Court. The bill introduced this week would close a loophole in legislation rushed through last month at the tail end of the previous congressional session. That legislation, packed into an…
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Fast Forward U.N. Chief Agrees To Admit ‘Palestine’ to ICC
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon announced that Palestine will join the International Criminal Court on April 1. The accession to the court will allow the Palestinians to press war-crimes charges against Israel. Ban made the announcement late Tuesday night, days after Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas signed the Rome Statute, the international treaty under…
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