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 Tzipi Livni Must Respond to Case Brought by Israeli NGO Against Bank of China
Israel’s Supreme Court has given Justice Minister Tzipi Livni one week to respond to a lawsuit by an Israeli NGO representing victims of Palestinian terror victims in a case against the Bank of China. On Tuesday, the court put its time mandate on Livni hours after the Shurat HaDin-Israel Law Center filed a suit requesting…
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The Schmooze ‘My Roommate Is Jewish’ Joke
Time Out New York has revealed the winners of its 2013 Joke of the Year contest. Hidden among the quips about MILF porn, weight loss and ghetto baby showers, was this: “I’m Palestinian and my roommate is Jewish, so we’re always fighting over where his room starts and mine ends. He pays more rent, but…
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Fast Forward John Kerry Blasted as ‘Messianic’ by Israeli Defense Minister
Israel’s defence minister called U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s quest for Israeli-Palestinian peace messianic, a newspaper said on Tuesday, reporting what it described as remarks made behind closed doors. Moshe Yaalon’s spokesman declined comment on the account in Yedioth Ahronoth, Israel’s biggest-selling newspaper. “Secretary of State John Kerry – who has come to us…
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Fast Forward Abbas Says He Will Not Recognize Israel as Jewish State
Mahmoud Abbas said in a speech to supporters that he will not recognize Israel as a Jewish state and will not sign a peace deal that does not include eastern Jerusalem as the capital of a Palestinian state. The Palestinian Authority president made the inflammatory remarks on Saturday during a visit by hundreds of Palestinian…
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Opinion If ‘Palestine’ Jerseys Incite Hatred, What About JNF?
Normally, when a sports team decides to redesign its uniforms, the decision isn’t considered a major news story. But when Chile’s El Palestino soccer club began wearing jerseys that show the entire map of Israel as Palestine, it met with an intense Jewish backlash — and it’s easy to see why. By using a one-state…
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Fast Forward Husband’s Smuggled Sperm Gives Baby to Palestinian Wife
The wife of a Palestinian prisoner in an Israeli jail gave birth on Friday to a boy born from sperm smuggled into Gaza, her family said, the first successful pregnancy of its kind in the embattled coastal enclave. The procedure follows several similar cases last year in the West Bank, and Palestinians view such births…
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Opinion Britain Should Apologize for Balfour Declaration
Palestinians protest on the anniversary of the Balfour Declaration in 2013. / Getty Images In 2014, commemoration of the First World War on the one-hundredth anniversary of its commencement will be inescapable. So, too, will the debate over the merits of the miserable and bloody conflict that took the lives of over 16 million soldiers…
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Fast Forward Chile’s ‘Palestine’ Soccer Club Ignites Controversy With Map Uniform
A soccer team in Chile’s top league has ignited controversy with its uniforms showing the entire map of Israel as Palestine. The uniforms of the Palestine Football Club, which was founded in 1920 by Palestinian immigrants to Chile, has the map on the back of the jerseys replacing the numeral 1. Local and global Jewish…
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