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 Arab-Israelis Clash With Police at Demonstration Against Operation in Gaza
Arab-Israeli protesters clashed with police at a demonstration in Nazareth against Israel’s military operation in Gaza. About 200 protesters threw rocks and glass bottles at police, according to reports on the demonstration Monday night in the northern Israeli city. Ten demonstrators were arrested. Some 3,000 Arab-Israelis attended the rally. Among those involved in clashes with…
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Israel News Max Steinberg’s Jewish Journey From Los Angeles Suburb to Death in Gaza
(Haaretz) — The death of a 24-year-old Birthright graduate from L.A. has brought the battles taking place in the Middle East home for many in this Southern California community in a tangible and direct way – a rarity in a conflict that has been fought by proxy here via rallies and divestment votes. Max Steinberg,…
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The Schmooze The Middle East Crisis, According to Woody Allen
The situation in Gaza is ?a terrible, tragic thing. Innocent lives are lost left and right, and it?s a horrible situation that eventually has to right itself,? Woody Allen declared in an interview about his new movie, Magic in the Moonlight. Asked about the Israel-Palestine conflict, Allen explained, ?I feel that the Arabs were not…
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Opinion Is Gaza Fight Israel’s ‘War of Choice’?
Israeli armored personnel carrier rolls at army deployment near Israel’s border with Gaza / Getty Images In his piece “Israel’s Moral Army?” in these pages, Michael Mitchell impressively deconstructs the Israel Defense Force’s conduct during its current military operation in Gaza. Using a variety of pedagogical criteria (international law, Jewish tradition, ethical theory) he ultimately…
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Fast Forward SodaStream Fires 60 Palestinians From West Bank Plant Over Ramadan Dispute
The SodaStream company reportedly fired 60 Palestinian employees from its West Bank plant over a dispute on breaking the Ramadan fast. The workers were fired earlier this month, the WAC-MAAN trade union representing the Palestinian workers told The Marker, a business newspaper associated with the Israeli daily Haaretz. The evening shift workers reportedly received dismissal…
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Fast Forward Oops! Rookie Diplomat Rick Stengel Sorry for #UnitedforGaza Tweet
The U.S. under secretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs published and then removed a tweet with a hashtag in support of Gaza. Rick Stengel used the hashtag #UnitedForGaza in a tweet published late Saturday night calling for an international investigation into the crash of a Malaysian Airlines flight earlier this week in…
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Fast Forward Florida Teen, Still Recovering From Israeli Beating, Hopes To Return to Middle East
(Reuters) — Despite the red scars on his wrists, a souvenir from a summer vacation to see Palestinian relatives that became a nightmare, Tariq Khdeir felt lucky on Sunday as he described his apparent beating by Israeli police earlier this month. Three cousins arrested with the U.S. teenager during clashes in east Jerusalem are still in…
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Fast Forward Obama Expresses ‘Serious Concern’ About Growing Casualties in Gaza
U.S. President Barack Obama told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday that he has serious concerns about the rising number of casualties from clashes between Israel and the Palestinians. Obama spoke by telephone to Netanyahu for the second time in three days. He told him Israel has the right to defend itself and he…
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