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 Israelis and Palestinians Yawn at Peace Debacle
An Israeli decision to suspend snarled negotiations with the Palestinians has signalled the latest and perhaps the final blow to two decades of a mostly fruitless peace process. But the day after the U.S.-led talks were frozen amid mutual recrimination, no angry crowds gathered in the de-facto Palestinian capital Ramallah to urge a rethink and…
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Fast Forward Palestinians Say Hamas Must Accept 2 States
Palestinian Authority officials said they would demand Hamas accept the two-state solution as a condition to reconciliation between Ramallah and the Islamist group ruling Gaza. An unnamed senior Palestinian official on Friday told The Times of Israel that Abbas’ Fatah movement “won’t agree to complete the reconciliation process” unless Hamas agrees to a new government…
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Opinion Is Israel Playing Into Hands of Hamas?
Palestinians celebrate new Fatah-Hamas unity // Getty Images. A few days ago, Israel was engaged in a bitter blame game with the Palestinians, with each side accusing the other of being responsible for sabotaging peace talks. Now, Israel is competing for recognition as the party that brought the flagging talks to an end. The Palestinians…
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Fast Forward Barack Obama Says Peace Talks May Need ‘Pause’
President Barack Obama said on Friday there might be a need for a “pause” in U.S.-brokered peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians, suggesting the faltering Middle East peace effort may be going nowhere. Israel on Thursday suspended participation in peace talks with the Palestinians in response to President Mahmoud Abbas’s unexpected unity pact with…
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Fast Forward Pro-Palestinian Group Spreads ‘Eviction’ Notices to NYU Jewish Students
Pro-Palestinian students from New York University distributed fake eviction notices at a dormitory to protest Israel’s house demolition practices. The pro-Palestinian students slipped phony “eviction notices” under the doors of up to 2,000 undergrads Thursday, alarming some of the Jewish students who live there, the New York Daily News reported. “We regret to inform you…
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Fast Forward Congress Moves To Cut Aid to Palestinians Over Hamas
Rep. Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.), a top congressional appropriator, said she is ready to launch steps to defund the Palestinian Authority in the wake of its unity agreement with Hamas in the Gaza Strip. “I’ll be working with the State Department on the logistics of suspending assistance,” Lowey told JTA on Thursday, after the Israeli government…
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Fast Forward Northeastern U. Reinstates Students for Justice in Palestine Chapter
Northeastern University has provisionally reinstated the Students for Justice in Palestine chapter on campus. The SJP chapter will remain on probation through January 2015, according to a notification letter from Dr. Laura A. Wankel, the university’s vice president for student affairs. Students for Justice in Palestine was suspended from campus on March 7 for at…
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Fast Forward Israel Formally Suspends Peace Talks With Palestinians
Israel formally suspended peace talks with the Palestinian Authority over the P.A.’s national unity accord signed with the Hamas authority in the Gaza Strip. “The Cabinet today unanimously decided that Israel will not negotiate with a Palestinian government backed by Hamas, a terrorist organization that calls for Israel’s destruction,” said a statement by Israeli Prime…
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