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 Mahmoud Abbas Suggests He Might Agree To Extend Peace Talks
The Palestinians would extend the current peace negotiations if Israel agrees to a three-month settlement construction freeze during which the sides would agree on the borders of a future Palestinian state. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas told Israeli journalists in Ramallah on Tuesday that he also would require Israel to release the fourth group of…
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Fast Forward U.S. Warns Palestinians Over ‘Dismantle’ Threat
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ threat to dismantle the P.A. would affect assistance to the Palestinians from Washington, the State Department said. “That type of extreme step would obviously have grave implications,” State Department Spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters Monday. “A great deal of effort has gone into building Palestinian institutions by Palestinians as well…
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Opinion What Jews Can Learn From Rwandans
A woman consoles a fellow Rwandan at a genocide commemoration ceremony / Getty Images I am no Shmuley Boteach, God knows. But I have recently learned from the Forward that Boteach and I have one thing in common – we are both rabbis who have visited Rwanda. This February, on the eve of Rwanda’s commemoration…
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News My Race Through Walls in Palestine Marathon
“Getting out of Jerusalem isn’t tough,” said Tiviet Nguyen, the Vietnamese Israeli who sat behind me on the crowded bus full of Palestinian men. “The challenge is getting back in. But there’s a whole industry of taxis taking Israelis back from the West Bank. We’ll be fine.” Like me, Nguyen and her husband, Moshe Saraf,…
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Food Cooking to Heal — On Both Sides of Green Line
From left: Bushra Awad and Robi Damelin, two of the 50 women who took part in the project. Photo by Dan Peretz (Haaretz) — “This is Subriya,” says Robi Damelin, as she begins introducing the people sitting around the table. “She lives in Nablus, and is one of the best cooks in the group. The…
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Fast Forward Did Israel Fire Grenades in Temple Mount Mosque?
The most senior Islamic cleric in Jerusalem said on Sunday Israeli police hurled stun grenades into al-Aqsa mosque, Islam’s third holiest site, to quell the latest in a string of Palestinian protests at the politically sensitive holy site. Israeli police denied the allegation, saying officers threw the non-lethal devices, which emit a loud noise, on…
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Fast Forward Abbas Threatens To Dismantle Palestinian Authority
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas threatened to dismantle the P.A., an Israeli newspaper is reporting. Citing unnamed Palestinian sources, the Israeli daily Yediot Acharonot on Sunday reported that Abbas is considering the unilateral action, which would leave Israel with full responsibility for the Palestinians living in the West Bank. The action would annul the 1993…
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Fast Forward Isolated Gaza Drowns in Poverty
(Reuters) — Life has never seemed so grim for the Mustafas, a family of seven cramped into a shabby two-room hovel in Gaza’s Jabalya refugee camp. Seven years into an Israeli blockade and ten months into a crippling Egyptian one, Gaza’s economic growth has evaporated and unemployment soared to almost 40 percent by the end…
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