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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Opinion Who Poisoned Yasser Arafat? The Palestinians.
Inside Yasser Arafat’s Ramallah headquarters, the top military and political and money men of the Palestine Liberation Organizaion would speak about their leader in hushed, nervous tones. They told of a chairman who was falling apart. He wore unwashed clothes. He rambled about the old days in Beirut. Then he was gone. Poisoned with polonium,…
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Fast Forward John Kerry Grimly Warns Israel of Palestinian Unrest and Isolation If Peace Talks Fail
Secretary of State John Kerry warned Israel on Thursday that it could face a third Palestinian uprising and deepening international isolation if American-brokered peace negotiations failed. Both Israel and the Palestinians have given grim assessments of the lack of progress in their talks, which the United States helped revive last July after a three-year hiatus….
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Fast Forward Israel Insists It Didn’t Poison Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat
Israel said on Thursday it did not poison Yasser Arafat, making the denial after the Palestinian leader’s widow said Swiss forensic tests had proven he died from radioactive polonium poisoning in 2004. “We never made a decision to harm him physically,” Energy Minister Silvan Shalom, who in 2004 served as foreign minister and as a…
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Fast Forward First Woman to Head Bank of Israel Targets Economic Inequality
(JTA) Andromeda Hill is a beachfront complex of luxury apartments connected by tree-lined pathways that features such amenities as a spa and business center. Five minutes down the road is Ajami, a low-income neighborhood profiled in the 2009 film of the same name that remains one of this city’s poorer districts. Such gaps in income…
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Fast Forward Insults Fly Between Peace Negotiators as Talks End in Acrimony
Palestinian officials involved in the peace negotiations with Israel reported that the talks held on Tuesday between the two negotiating teams ended in a row, with raised voices and the exchange of verbal insults. According to reports from within the negotiation rooms, Palestinian negotiators came to the talks bearing serious concerns over the events of…
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Fast Forward John Kerry Admits Peace Talks ‘Difficulties’
Secretary of State John Kerry said on Tuesday Israeli- Palestinian peace talks had run into difficulties but thought it still possible some agreement could be reached. Israeli and Palestinian officials painted a grim picture of the talks resumed under Kerry’s tutelage in July after a long stalemate, saying they were going nowhere. “I come here…
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Fast Forward U.S. Has Own Plan as Peace Talks Stall Over Israel’s Hardline Stance
The United States will present its own peace plan to Israeli and Palestinian negotiators, a senior Knesset member told Israeli media. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of his plan to intervene with his own draft agreement, after it appeared that staying on the sidelines did not help, Zahava…
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Fast Forward 5 Nobel Laureates Join South African Campaign To Free Palestinians Held by Israel
An international campaign launched in Cape Town to free Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails has been condemned by the South African Zionist Federation. Launched late last month by the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation on Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela was incarcerated for 18 of his 27 years’ imprisonment by the apartheid government, the Free Marwan…
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