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Fast Forward Abbas Says Trump’s So-Called Mideast Peace ‘Plan’ Is A Big Fat Mess
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told a delegation of Israeli left-wing lawmakers that the Trump administration is in “chaos” when it comes to the Israel-Palestinian conflict — and has no clear peace plan. Abbas noted that in meetings with envoys representing President Donald Trump in recent weeks, he heard that they support a two-state solution to…
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Fast Forward Knife-Wielding Palestinian Teen Shot Dead By Israeli Troops
Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian teen wielding a knife on Saturday in the occupied West Bank, police said. A 17-year-old Palestinian approached a group of Israeli paramilitary policemen stationed at a West Bank junction, holding what appeared to be a bag, police spokeswoman Luba Samri said, and the troops then called on him…
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Fast Forward Jerusalem Drops Luxury Redevelopment Plan For Historic Palestinian Village
Jerusalem’s city government has set aside plans to redevelop the abandoned Palestinian village of Lifta, with its historic stone homes, into a luxury development featuring 200 McMansions. “The plan has been taken off the agenda so that it can undergo additional professional consideration,” the municipality said in a statement after a planning committee turned down…
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Fast Forward Brazil Extraditing Israeli Settler Convicted Of Killing Palestinian
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — A German-Israeli settler who fled to Brazil after killing a Palestinian will be extradited to serve his sentence in the Jewish state. Brazil’s Supreme Court decided unanimously on Wednesday to accede to an Israeli request to extradite Yehoshua Elitzur back to Israel to serve a prison sentence for killing Palestinian…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Man Confesses To Killing Pregnant Israeli Girlfriend, Police Say
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A Palestinian man confessed to killing his Israeli girlfriend, who was pregnant, Israel Police announced. Michal Halimi, 29, from the West Bank settlement of Adam, has been missing for more than two months. Halimi had left her home voluntarily to move in with her boyfriend Muhammad Harouf of Nablus, the police said…
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Fast Forward Israeli Man Stabbed By Palestinian Assailant In Central Israel Supermarket
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Israeli man was stabbed by a Palestinian at a supermarket in the central city of Yavneh. Police believe the stabbing early on Wednesday afternoon was a nationalistic terror attack. The attacker was a 19-year-old Palestinian man from Nablus in the West Bank who, according to some reports, works at the supermarket….
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Fast Forward Jared Kushner On Israeli-Palestinian Peace: ‘There May Be No Solution’
NEW YORK (JTA) — If Jared Kushner is the only person who can deliver Middle East peace — as his father-in-law Donald Trump said — he comes off as a reluctant savior. In a speech delivered Monday to a group of congressional interns and leaked to the media, Kushner expounded on the Trump administration’s efforts…
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Fast Forward Slim Majority Of Israelis and Palestinians Still Support Two-State Solution
Small majorities of Israelis and Palestinians still support a two-state solution, a poll conducted jointly by Tel Aviv University and the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research found. According to the poll, 53% of Israelis and 52% of Palestinians expressed support for a two-state solution, where Israelis and Palestinians would have separate countries in…
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