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 Belgian Jews Cheer Freezing Of Aid To Palestinian School
(JTA) — Belgian Jewish groups welcomed the decision by their country’s foreign ministry to freeze $3.8 million in funding for Palestinian schools following the renaming of a recipient institution for a terrorist who killed Jewish civilians. Tuesday’s move, which the Forum of Jewish Organizations of Belgium’s Flemish Region said was “the right thing to do,”…
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Fast Forward Israel Closes Palestinian Border Crossings For 10 Days
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Crossings between Israel and the West Bank and Gaza will be closed to Palestinians for 11 days beginning with the start of the Sukkot holiday. Exceptions for the Oct. 4-14 closings will be made for humanitarian, medical and unusual cases with the approval of the Israeli military’s coordinator of government activities in…
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Fast Forward Netanyahu Slams Palestinian Unity Push — Vows To Expand Settlements
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaking at a meeting in the West Bank settlement of Maale Adumim, said that the Palestinians are reconciling “at the expense of our existence. He was referring to a meeting on Tuesday in Gaza of the Palestinian Authority cabinet in Ramallah, led by PA Prime Minister Rami…
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Fast Forward Family Home Of Palestinian Shabbat Killer Will Be Demolished
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The family home of the Palestinian man who killed three security officers in a shooting attack at an entrance to the West Bank settlement where he worked will be demolished. The Israel Defense Forces notified the family of Nimr Mahmoud Ahmed Jamal, 37, on Monday night. The military said the family has…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Prime Minister Heads To Gaza In Reconciliation Push
The West Bank-based Palestinian prime minister crossed into the Gaza Strip on Monday in a move towards reconciliation between the mainstream Fatah party and Hamas, a decade after the Islamist group seized the territory in a civil war. Rami al-Hamdallah said at a welcome ceremony his unity government would begin assuming control of Gaza’s administrative…
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Community Why I Refuse To Go On Birthright — And You Should, Too.
Earlier this month, registration for Birthright Israel’s winter programs opened, inviting thousands of Jewish young people to accept a gift that seems too good to be true: a completely free trip to Israel. Many of these young people will be excited to experience firsthand the country that they have been taught to consider their own…
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Fast Forward Sanders Meets West Bank Activist Being Prosecuted By Israel — And Palestinians
Bernie Sanders took some time on Thursday to meet with Issa Amro, a Palestinian activist visiting Washington after being arrested and prosecuted by Israeli and Palestinian Authority officials. According to Amro, he and the Vermont senator discussed the Israel-Palestine conflict, including “discussing the current situation on the ground and what can be done to change…
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Life Jerusalem On Yom Kippur: When The Fairytales Of Two Nations Collide
The streets of Jerusalem were deserted. The only remnants of life were the echoes of Jewish prayers nearby, solemn echoes heard on this day in this place for millennia. Those chants in minor key reverberated to me like the mourning of memories past. Was it regret I heard? Sadness? Duty? The prayers followed me along…
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