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 Palestinians Say Third Intifada Is Coming: Poll
Almost two thirds of Palestinians think that a third intifada is round the corner if the current Israeli-Palestinian peace talks fail, according to a new poll. The Palestinian Center for Public Opinion asked Arab residents of the West Bank and Gaza whether they “anticipate the outbreak of a third Intifada in case the peace process…
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Fast Forward Joe Biden Tells J Street Peace Talks Are Best Chance for Stability
WASHINGTON — Instability in the Middle East presents an incentive to advance Israeli-Palestinian peace, Vice President Joe Biden told J Street’s annual conference. After reviewing an array of countries seized by unrest, including Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Yemen and Bahrain, as well as the threat posed by Iran’s suspected nuclear program, Biden said Monday that he…
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Music A Tale of Two Nights
In late September, a meeting was sponsored by Encounter, a wonderful organization that wants to ensure that all voices in the Israel-Palestine conflict are heard, to listen to Sam Bahour, a very successful Palestinian entrepreneur. Bahour, born to a Palestinian father and a Lebanese-American mother in Youngstown, Ohio, in effect made aliyah to Palestine in…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Urges Obama to Maintain Iran Sanctions During White House Meeting
WASHINGTON – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday to keep sanctions in place against Iran and to even tighten them if Tehran continues its nuclear advances during a coming round of negotiations with the West. Seeking to ease Israeli concerns about U.S. diplomatic engagement with Iran, Obama said Tehran…
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News War Games Depict History of Israel and Challenge Players To Win Conflict
It is October 1973, and the state of Israel is in mortal danger. To the north, Syrian tank columns have overwhelmed the handful of Israeli defenders on the Golan Heights. To the south, Egyptian troops have crossed the Suez Canal and are advancing through Sinai. You command the Israeli forces desperately mobilizing to meet the…
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Fast Forward IDF Charges Two Soldiers With Beating Palestinian Detainee
The Israeli military has charged two soldiers with beating up a blindfolded and bound Palestinian detainee, the army said on Sunday. According to the charges, brought before a military court last Monday, the soldiers were guarding a Palestinian man who was being held at a military base in May 2012 after illicitly entering Israel from…
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Culture Britannia Rules the Words No More in Israel
While waiting for a train in an Israeli station the other day, I was bemused to hear an announcement in English, following a similar one in Hebrew, that said, “Smokers are requested to smoke only in the dedicated area.” I suppose someone meant “designated,” unless the announcement concerned dedicated smokers. This kind of thing isn’t…
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Fast Forward Israeli Troops Clash With Palestinians in Jerusalem as Temple Mount Feud Flares
Israeli police clashed with Palestinian protesters in Jerusalem’s Old City, the occupied West Bank and Gaza on Friday, reflecting growing tensions over an increase in Jewish visits to the al-Aqsa mosque compound. Palestinian militants and youth groups have called for a general uprising in response to the entry by Jewish groups under police escort to…
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