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 Activists Mount Protest at West Bank Supermarket
Some 100 Palestinians and international activists protesting in front of a supermarket in a West Bank settlement called for a boycott of settlement goods. Waving Palestinian flags, the protesters entered the Rami Levy supermarket in Shaar Binyamin, near Beit El, on Wednesday chanting “Out, out settlers” and carrying signs reading “boycott the occupation and its…
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Fast Forward Seeing Little Choice, Arabs Back Obama
Many in the Middle East believe Barack Obama failed to deliver on promises of a new U.S. approach in the region but still prefer him to presidential rival Mitt Romney, who they see as too close to Israel and too keen to project U.S. military might. Whoever wins the Nov. 6 election faces a knot…
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Fast Forward 60 Rockets Rain Down on Southern Israel
More than 60 rockets and mortar shells fired from Gaza have hit southern Israel in the last 24 hours, striking several homes and injuring three. Four Palestinians have been killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza sites that the military says are used for launching rockets at Israel. The Palestinian Ma’an news agency has identified the…
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Fast Forward Israelis Support Anti-Arab Discrimination: Poll
Most of the Jewish public in Israel supports the establishment of an apartheid regime in Israel if it formally annexes the West Bank. A majority also explicitly favors discrimination against the state’s Arab citizens, a New Israel Fund survey shows. The survey, conducted by Dialog on the eve of Rosh Hashanah, exposes anti-Arab, ultra-nationalist views…
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Fast Forward Qatari Emir Is First Leader To Visit Gaza
The Emir of Qatar entered the Gaza Strip on Tuesday for a visit that broke the isolation of it Islamist rulers, Hamas, but disappointed Israel and mainstream Palestinian leaders in the West Bank. Sheik Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani crossed into Gaza from Egypt at the head of a large delegation on what is billed as…
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Fast Forward Jimmy Carter Bemoans Fading Hopes for Peace
Former President Jimmy Carter said in Jerusalem that Israel and the Palestinians have reached a “crisis stage” and that a two-state solution is “vanishing.” Carter met Monday with Israeli President Shimon Peres and with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, along with former Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland and Ireland’s former President Mary Robinson. Carter,…
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Fast Forward Extremist Settlers Torch Palestinian Taxi
A Palestinian taxi was set on fire in a West Bank village near Hebron. The cab reportedly was set on fire early Monday morning. The words “Price tag Sussiya ” were spray painted on a nearby wall. “Price tag” refers to the strategy that extremists have adopted to exact a price in attacks on Palestinians…
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Fast Forward Fatah Suffers Setback in Palestinian Vote
Gains by rebels and a low turnout have dealt a blow to Fatah, the dominant party in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, which had hoped to paper over internal squabbles and a lack of cash with a strong election showing. The long-delayed elections for control of 94 West Bank towns and villages took place on Saturday…
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