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 Palestinian Youths Throw Stones at Israeli Police on Temple Mount
Israeli police were pelted with stones at the Temple Mount for the third time in two months. Palestinian youth threw the stones Sunday morning near the Mughrabi Gate, where non-Muslims enter the holy site, according to the Times of Israel. No policemen were injured. The incident follows two riots in February at the Mughrabi Gate….
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Fast Forward Barack Obama and Mahmoud Abbas to Discuss ‘Jewish State’ Recognition
In their upcoming meeting, President Obama and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will discuss Palestinian recognition of Israel as a Jewish state, as well as Israel’s planned release of Palestinian prisoners. Monday’s meeting at the White House will center on the ongoing negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. According to Haaretz, Abbas is expected to…
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Israel News Evangelical Christians Rally Against Occupation as Palestinians Gain Support
On a bleak and rainy morning, the Israeli military checkpoint in Bethlehem looked especially depressing: rain-soaked concrete walls, a loose tin roof clattering in the wind, and Palestinian workers running across wet gravel into a cage-like narrow corridor to cross into Israel. That’s the sight that greeted two dozen Christian visitors to the Israeli-occupied West…
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Opinion If a Palestinian Did This, He’d Be Dead
In an imagined juxtaposition, the Hebron settler meets Fiddler on the Roof. / Richard Goldwasser If you’re online and follow news out of Israel, you’ve probably already seen or at least heard of that wild-and-crazy video of a Hebron settler try to steal a Palestinian flag off a Palestinian roof. The guy gets caught on…
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Fast Forward John Kerry Frustrated by ‘Jewish State’ Recognition Impasse
John Kerry said Israelis and Palestinian mistrust remained high and expressed frustration with the issue of recognizing Israel as a Jewish state. The U.S. secretary of state fielded questions Wednesday and Thursday from congressional committees probing his department’s budget requests. “I do believe both parties are serious,” Kerry told the foreign operations subcommittee of the…
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Opinion Enough Room for Two Peoples in Holy Land
In his much celebrated new book “My Promised Land,” Ari Shavit reminds readers that the narrative people most often turn to to explain the trouble between Israelis and Palestinians is a grand illusion — though one that was and, for many, still is at the core of Zionism. It’s the belief that Jews were a…
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Fast Forward Northeastern University Suspends Pro-Palestinian Group
The Students for Justice in Palestine chapter at Northeastern University vowed to fight its suspension from campus over a campaign that the Boston school said intimidated students. “It is clear that the university’s draconian decision is part of a thinly veiled policy of silencing student speech critical of Israel,” the group said in a statement…
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Fast Forward 4 More Rockets From Gaza Hit Israel
Rockets fired from Gaza continued to fall on Israel, a day after a massive barrage from the coastal territory left thousands of Israelis in bomb shelters. Four rockets were fired Thursday morning at Ashkelon and Ashdod, with two landing in open fields between the two cities and one intercepted over Ashkelon by the Iron Dome…
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