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 Israel Gives Green Light for 878 Settlement Homes
The Civil Administration, Israel’s highest civilian authority in the West Bank, approved construction plans on Wednesday for 878 housing units in isolated settlements across the territory. Discussion of some of the plans had initially been postponed following U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s announcement that diplomatic negotiations with the Palestinians would resume, but was brought…
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Fast Forward Israel’s High Court Will Rule on a Petition Against Releasing Palestinian Prisoners
The High Court of Justice was asked on Wednesday to reject a petition to overturn a government decision to release 104 Palestinian prisoners. In a response to a petition filed by the Almagor Terror Victims Association against freeing the prisoners, many of whom were responsible for terror attacks that killed and maimed Israelis, the State…
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Fast Forward Edward Said’s Daughter Talks About Growing Up WASP-y
Najla Said, daughter of the late Palestinian intellectual and leading post-Modernist Edward Said, tried to ignore the Palestinian culture and heritage handed down to her by her parents in their Manhattan home when she was young. But the September 11 terrorist attacks, and the subsequent souring of attitudes towards Arab-Americans, caused her to think again….
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Fast Forward Yehuda Lev, Journalist and Zionist, Dies at 86
Yehuda Lev, an iconoclastic journalist and veteran of World War II and Israel’s War of Independence who established a European underground route to smuggle Holocaust survivors to Palestine, has died. Lev died Aug. 3 in Providence, Rhode Island, after a prolonged illness. He was 86. Lev became the first associate editor of the newly founded…
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Fast Forward Israeli Soldier Caught Beating 12-Year-Old Boy — Video Goes Viral
An Israeli soldier was caught on film kicking and hitting a 12-year-old Palestinian boy in Hebron. The video of the incident, which occurred on Saturday, was uploaded to YouTube by the International Solidarity Movement – Palestine on Sunday and by Monday afternoon had been viewed more than 10,700 times. It has not been disclosed what…
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Fast Forward Barcelona Soccer Star Lionel Messi Visits Western Wall on ‘Peace Tour’
Popular Argentinian soccer star Lionel Messi visited the Western Wall in Jerusalem and met with Israeli leaders. Messi was in Israel with the Spanish soccer team Football Club Barcelona as part of the team’s “Peace Tour,” which included hosting skills clinics and games with Israeli and Palestinian children in order to promote peace. The Barcelona…
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Opinion Forgetting the Mideast Conflict Is Easy in Israel — and That’s a Big Problem
The best place to forget the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is Israel. In American Jewish circles, we talk about it all the time. But enjoying a café hafuch in southern Jerusalem’s Anglo-populated neighborhoods such as the German Colony or Katamon, it feels a world away. Ironic, isn’t it — since from those cafes, the conflict is actually…
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Opinion For True Peace, All Issues Must Be Resolved
The brambled path that winds through all the efforts to resolve Israel’s conflict with the Palestinians is littered with failure. Here, some prisoners released; there, some interventions by Israel’s High Court of Justice to limit Israel’s encroachment on Palestinian lands. Here, a pledge to avoid incitement; there, cooperation on security issues. Add all the leaky…
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