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Opinion Memo to Abbas: Biden is not going to solve the Palestinians’ problems
As President Joe Biden was sworn into office last week, the octogenarian President of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, hastened to issue a warm congratulatory statement, emphasizing his readiness for “a comprehensive and just peace process.” He sent a similar but more detailed letter to Biden’s team in November, offering to make several concessions in…
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Community Saeb Erekat: the friend, the negotiator and the politician
Saeb Erekat leaves behind a complex legacy which I would divide into four parts. I knew him for about 27 years. The first legacy was Saeb, the person. I had so many conversations with him. I was convinced on a human level, he definitely wanted peace with Israel. He believed, even if the US was…
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Opinion What Saeb Erekat taught me about the peace process
Editor’s note: Saeb Erekat died on Nov. 10, 2020, after contracting Covid-19. This article was originally published while he was in the hospital, on Oct. 23. This is an adaptation of our weekly Shabbat newsletter, sent by our editor-in-chief on Friday afternoons. Sign up here to get the Forward’s free newsletters delivered to your inbox….
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Fast Forward Palestinian refugee receives Spanish citizenship after discovering Sephardic roots
(JTA) — As a British resident born in Dubai to a Palestinian father and Lebanese mother, Heba Nabil Iskandarani had plenty of potential national identities. What she lacked, however, was a passport. A 26-year-old lecturer in architecture at Birmingham City University, Iskandarani has been stateless for most of her life, possessing only a Lebanese travel…
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Community To save Palestinian lives, Jews, Christians and Muslims unite
For the first time ever, Muslims, Jews and Christians in Greater Washington are uniting around a mission of saving Palestinian lives and supporting Israelis and Palestinians who are committed to working together for the benefit of all. Since the beginning of June, our congregations, the All-Dulles Area Muslim Society, Temple Rodef Shalom and St. John’s…
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Fast Forward San Francisco State University president stands behind terrorist Leila Khaled speaking appearance
San Francisco State University President Lynn Mahoney is standing behind the decision to allow a Palestinian terrorist to participate in a university event via Zoom. A university official told the Forward that an e-mail in support of Leila Khaled speaking at a university event did in fact come from Mahoney. In the e-mail, Mahoney wrote…
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Fast Forward Kenosha synagogue vandalized with ‘Free Palestine’ graffiti during protests
Vandals spray-painted “Free Palestine” in front of Beth Hillel Temple during demonstrations protesting the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha early Thursday morning. A reporter for the conservative news outlet Town Hall tweeted a video displaying the graffiti. Other property in Kenosha, including at least one church, also were vandalized or otherwise took damage…
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Community Talk about the conflict by talking about climate change
Joel Swanson’s recent take on the Seth Rogen interview on “WTF with Marc Maron” resonated with me not because I, like Rogen, once had a warped understanding of Israel, but because the reactions from some members of this community are so clearly misplaced, they represent a mass distraction. For one, it seems to me that…
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