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 Supreme Court Orders Israel To Involve Palestinians in West Bank Building Plans
Israel’s frequent destruction of Palestinian homes, schools and mosques in the occupied West Bank is about to be put to an important test in the country’s Supreme Court. And for at least some Palestinians, the outcome is seen as even more important than statehood. On April 28, the court gave Israel’s defense and security agencies…
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Fast Forward Israel Fires Back in Talks Collapse Blame Game
Israel fired back on Friday at a senior U.S. official, who blamed Jewish settlement construction in part for the breakdown of peacemaking with the Palestinians, saying he himself had done nothing to help the negotiations. The blunt riposte signalled continued, deep tensions between Israel and Washington over the U.S.-led talks, which collapsed last month amid…
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Opinion When Israelis Teach Their Kids To Hate
A boy plays with a rifle during a weapons display in Efrat, Independence Day 2014 / Getty Images Little kids throw mock grenades and pretend to shoot big guns; a boy crawls militant-style as gun-wielding adults cheer him on; a girl wearing a pink dress carries a rocket launcher twice her size. These are some…
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Music Two Palestinians Executed In Gaza Strip as Israeli Spies
Two Palestinians were executed in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday as Israeli spies, the enclave’s Islamist Hamas government said, adding they had helped the Jewish state’s armed forces carry out lethal operations. The condemned men, one of whom was hanged and the other shot by firing squad, “provided the Occupation (Israel) with information that led…
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Fast Forward Israel Accuses Palestinians of Plot To Torpedo Peace Talks
Israel’s national security adviser said in a letter sent to ambassadors to Israel from around the world that the Palestinians had been planning to foil the peace process long before the breakdown occurred. National Security Adviser Joseph Cohen attached to the letter, dated April 22, a document that Palestinian Authority negotiator Saeb Erekat submitted to…
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Fast Forward Fingers Point at Israel as Blame Game Starts Over Collapse of Peace Talks
(JTA) — Now that Israeli-Palestinian negotiations have screeched to a halt, U.S. officials are apportioning blame, and a big share is going to Israel. In an interview with Nahum Barnea, a veteran diplomatic affairs writer for the Israeli daily Yediot Achronot, anonymous members of the U.S. negotiating team said Israel’s settlement activity was a principal…
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Opinion Why the iNakba App Is a Brilliant Idea
Views of the iNakba app / Zochrot What would be a reasonable response to this week’s release of the interactive iNakba app, designed to help users “locate the Palestinian localities destroyed in the Nakba since 1948 and to learn about them”? Given the depth of ignorance surrounding the topic, you could greet iNakba as an…
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Fast Forward Israel Releases $100M in Palestinian Tax Cash
Palestinian public sector workers received their salaries on Tuesday, Palestinian officials said, in a sign that Israel had backed down from a threat to impose sanctions as peace talks began to collapse last month. Israel had said on April 10 it would withhold funds after Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas signed a series of international human…
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