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 Is ‘Beyond the Two-State Solution’ Poised for Prime-Time?
The crisis in Syria, has overwhelmed discussion of other Middle East issues in the past month, not the least of them being the 20th anniversary of the signing of the Oslo Accords between Israel and the Palestinians. Still, the passage of two decades with little or no progress in the peace process has not passed…
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News IDF To Remove Forces From 22 Towns On Northern and Southern Borders
The Israel Defense Forces will remove soldiers from 22 towns located on the country’s northern and southern borders. The IDF’s Operations Branch made the decision to withdraw from the communities near the borders with Lebanon, the Sinai and the Gaza Strip, according to reports. It will go into effect in October. IDF officials told the…
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Fast Forward Kerry Heading To Israel To Update Netanyahu on Syria Deal
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will arrive in Israel on Sunday, and he will update Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on developments in securing a deal for Syria to hand over its chemical weapons. Over the weekend, Kerry will continue with talks in Geneva with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov, in an attempt to confirm…
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Fast Forward Oslo Failures Haunt New Middle East Talks
Two decades after Israeli and Palestinian leaders met on a sun-soaked White House lawn, hopes that their historic encounter would lead to peace have faded along with photographs of their hesitant handshake. The Oslo Accords forged by Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat, now both in their graves, were meant to result in a permanent deal…
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Fast Forward Group With Ties to Fatah Calls For Attacks Against Israel on the Eve of Yom Kippur
The Al Aksa Martyrs’ Brigades called on followers to launch attacks against Israel. The Fatah-aligned Al Aksa Martyrs’ Brigades on Tuesday distributed a leaflet calling for its “units and sleeping cells” to start launching attacks against “the Zionist enemy” beginning on Friday, the eve of Yom Kippur. The attacks are a protest against the effort…
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Fast Forward Israel Protests Palestinian Leaks on ‘Temporary Borders’ Over Rosh Hashana
Israel has protested what it says are Palestinian officials’ leaks to the media about the content of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. Israeli peace negotiator Isaac Molho, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s envoy to the peace talks, in a call over the weekend to his U.S. counterpart Martin Indyk, complained about the numerous leaks to the media…
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Opinion For Israeli Military, Armor’s Out, Cyber Is In
Officers in the U.S. Army have long envied the “short drive” they claim the Israel Defense Forces has to reach its front lines, bemoaning the tyranny of distance when deploying to places like Iraq and Afghanistan. Having relatively short distances to go when meeting a threat means that the IDF is able to go in…
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Culture Israeli Films at Venice Festival Depict Wide Divide Between Jews and Arabs
In Amos Gitai’s film “Ana Arabia”, premiered in Venice this week, a Palestinian whose late wife was an Auschwitz survivor and Muslim convert treks to Arab cities to find a dentist instead of one five minutes away in Tel Aviv. In “Bethlehem”, the work of an Israeli director and Palestinian screenwriter, an Israeli Shin Bet…
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