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Fast Forward Meet The Arab Singer Performing For Israeli Memorial Day
On Sundown on Sunday, Israel will pause to mourn the nation’s fallen soldiers on Yom HaZikaron, or Memorial Day. This year, an Arab pop singer is helping to usher in the somber mood. Most Arabs don’t serve in Israel’s military, and oppose Israel’s military policy in the West Bank and Gaza. That’s what makes Qadri’s…
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Opinion Should We Celebrate The 50th Anniversary Of The Six Day War — Or Despair?
Although I was a young girl when the Six Day War broke out, I clearly remember the 5th of June, 1967. I had no personal connection to the war. Our family had no relatives or close friends in Israel at the time; the country was as abstract as the map on my Hebrew school classroom…
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Fast Forward Abbas Cuts Off Power Payments For Gaza In Bid To Pressure Hamas
With the prospect looming of a Middle East peace initiative by a new U.S. administration more sympathetic to Israel, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has decided to turn the screw on the Hamas group that has kept Gaza out of his control for a decade. Abbas’s Western-backed Palestinian Authority (PA) on Thursday told Israel it would…
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News For Palestinians, Grim ‘Checkpoint Q’ Is Metaphor For Israeli Occupation
To one side loom towers manned by Israeli soldiers who keep watch from behind bulletproof glass. To the other stand concrete walls charred by fire bombs, pitted with bullet holes and scrawled with Palestinian graffiti. In between, barriers and steel fences block traffic or corral vehicles and pedestrians. In much the same way Checkpoint Charlie…
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Fast Forward Britain Rejects Demand For Apology Over 1917 Balfour Declaration
Palestinian leaders said on Tuesday Britain had rejected their request for an apology for a 1917 declaration that helped pave the way to the state of Israel, and they would pursue international court action unless London backtracked. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called for the apology in an address to the U.N. General Assembly in September,…
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Fast Forward ‘Fed Up’ Palestinian Woman Stabbed Isreali Soldier In Death Wish
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A Palestinian woman who stabbed a female soldier at a West Bank checkpoint told investigators that she committed the attack because she wanted Israeli security forces to kill her. The woman, identified by the Shin Bet security service as Asia Kabaneh, 41, from Duma in the Nablus area, approached a female security officer…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Loses UN Gig Over Ties To Hamas
(JTA) — A Palestinian Gazan is no longer employed by a United Nations Agency for Palestinian refugees after it was discovered that he was elected to the leadership of the terrorist group Hamas. Agency leaders did not tell media who inquired over the weekend whether Suhail al-Hindi resigned or was fired from the U.N. Relief…
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Fast Forward Trumpeting ‘Unbreakable’ Ties, Germany Still Presses Israel On Palestinian Statehood
Deep and “unbreakable” ties between Germany and Israel are part of Germany’s national identity and pillars of its foreign policy, but Berlin will continue to press for a two-state solution, Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel said on Sunday. “With respect to the Middle East conflict, our solidarity with Israel also means working to ensure that Israel…
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