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Fast Forward Palestinians Want Marwan Barghouti Freed Now
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has asked Washington to mediate with Israel for the release of Marwan Barghouti, a Palestinian leader and possible presidential contender jailed a decade ago over a spate of suicide bombings. Israel agreed last year to free 104 Palestinian prisoners in what it termed a gesture of goodwill to mark the resumption…
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Opinion Could ‘Framework’ Offer Elusive Breakthrough as Peace Talks Sputter?
Nobody, it’s fair to say, ever went broke betting against the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. You could put even money on a sudden meltdown, a theatrical explosion or a quiet fade-out. Just don’t bet on success. Nobody wins. Right now the heavy betting is on how soon the Kerry initiative will collapse and who’ll be blamed….
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Fast Forward Palestinian Teen Shot Dead While Foraging Wild Thistles for Cooking
Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian teenager on Wednesday in the occupied West Bank, the Israeli military said, in the latest killing to overshadow U.S.-brokered peace talks. The family of Youssef Shawamra said he was killed after he went foraging for wild thistles used in local cooking. Hospital officials said he was 15, while one…
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Israel News Northeastern U. Duel Over Pro-Palestinian Group Mirrors Nationwide Fight
Like Alan Dershowitz, his former teacher and Harvard Law School colleague, Boston attorney Harvey Silverglate is both a strong supporter of Israel and a passionate free speech advocate. So Silverglate had two reactions when Northeastern University unceremoniously suspended its campus chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine. “I actually think that the [SJP] students are…
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Fast Forward 200 Protest Suspensions of Anti-Israel Students at Northeastern
More than 200 protesters rallied at Northeastern University opposing the school’s recent suspension of the campus chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine. The protest was organized by a coalition of more than 29 organizations including Jewish Voice for Peace Boston and many of its local student chapters as well as feminist, peace and social…
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Opinion Trading a Palestinian Flag for a Kid’s Freedom?
IDF soldiers order Shadi Sidr to remove his Palestinian flag in Hebron. / YouTube Last week I wrote about that wacky video of a Hebron settler climbing onto a Palestinian’s roof to steal his flag, getting stuck, and calmly telling the Palestinian that the roof, house, and everything within shouting distance actually belonged to the…
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Opinion Will Settlers and Arabs Unite To Tank Peace?
John Kerry / Getty Images As Jerusalem and Ramallah wait anxiously to see the framework peace agreement that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is drafting, large numbers of Israelis are ready to take matters into their own hands if they don’t like what they see. A survey by the Israel Democracy Institute just asked…
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Fast Forward Israel Balks at Releasing Palestinian Prisoners
Israel told Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday it might not carry out a final stage of a Palestinian prisoner release unless he commits to prolonging peace talks beyond a U.S.-set April deadline for a deal. Israel’s chief negotiator, Tzipi Livni, issued the warning just a day after Abbas, at a White House meeting with…
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