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 Radical ‘Price Tag’ Settlers Damage 14 Palestinian Cars
Fourteen Palestinian vehicles were vandalised on Wednesday in the occupied West Bank and Arab East Jerusalem in what appeared to be attacks by militant Israeli settlers following the killing of one of their own last month. No arrests were immediately made in the so-called “Price Tag” incidents. The term is used by militant settlers who…
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Fast Forward Israeli and Palestinian Business Leaders Call for Two-State Solution
About 300 Israeli and Palestinian business leaders called on their governments Monday to move swiftly toward a two-state solution and end the conflict between the two peoples. Members of the Breaking the Impasse initiative said they would use their business experience to persuade their governments to launch serious negotiations. They were speaking at the World…
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Opinion An Israeli Disconnect on the Two-State Solution
Something important happened in Israel’s Knesset the other day. It was one of those incidents you might be tempted to ignore — just another spat over peace, Palestinians and territories. On examination, though, what happened May 21 could tell you a lot about Israel’s complicated diplomatic position right now. It also helps explain some of…
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Fast Forward Kerry Pleads for Solution To End ‘Perpetual War’
Secretary of State John Kerry urged Israel and the Palestinians to reach a political settlement, warning that the absence of peace would result in “perpetual war.” “Do we want to live with a permanent intifada?” Kerry asked in his address to the World Economic Forum on the Jordanian shores of the Dead Sea. There was…
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Fast Forward Despite Repression, Hamas Survives in Shadows of Palestinian-Run West Bank
In his sparse village home adorned only with framed verses from the Quran, Mohammed Ghannam opens his shirt, pointing silently to his bruised chest. Ghannam, 44, whose job was to deliver the call to prayer in Dura’s local mosque, said plainclothes security forces from the Palestinian Authority (PA) detained him last month for belonging to…
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Fast Forward Early Peace Discussions With Israelis and Palestinians ‘Very Productive’, Says Kerry
Israeli and Palestinian leaders must decide soon on whether to revive long-dormant peace negotiations to end their decades-old conflict, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday. Ending two days of meetings in the region, Kerry said he had had “very productive” talks. But there were no obvious signs of any breakthrough, with neither…
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Opinion Church of Scotland Strikes Out on Israel
When the Church of Scotland decided to revise its controversial and borderline anti-Semitic report on Israel and the Palestinians, it only really had to do three things. First, the Kirk, as the church is widely know, had to make clear it understood what Zionism actually is. Not, as they originally stated, a solely religious ideology….
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Food John Kerry Stops To Smell the Shwarma
Secretary of State John Kerry stepped off the diplomatic track on Thursday and onto a West Bank street where he sampled a shawarma sandwich and a pistachio-sprinkled Palestinian sweet. In a rare gesture for a U.S. secretary of state – but a staple of U.S. political campaigns – Kerry dropped by the Samer Restaurant in…
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