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 Report: Abbas Met With U.S. Businessmen to Establish Trump Back Channel
(JTA) — Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas met with American businessmen in Ramallah earlier this month in an attempt to set up a back channel for contacts with the incoming administration of Donald Trump. On Jan. 2, Abbas met in Ramallah with hedge fund manager Daniel Arbess, who is Jewish, and with the Palestinian billionaire…
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Community To Fight Radical Islamic Terror, Europe Must Move From Gestures To Action
Brandenburg Gate, one of the most recognizable landmarks in the world, once the scene of mass Nazi rallies, emblazoned with swastika flags, was this week lit up with the flag of the Jewish State of Israel. Who would have thought in their lifetime, or even in the space of eighty years, this would ever happen?…
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Fast Forward United States, Scores of Other Countries Will Attend Paris Peace Conference
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Representative of 72 countries will attend the Paris peace conference, French officials announced. Among those who said they will attend is U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, who late last month in a lengthy speech laid out six principles that the United States believes must govern the resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict while…
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Community In Israel, A Case For The Status Quo
The status quo is not the ideal solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But it’s better than any of the alternatives. And sometimes that’s the best that can be done in an imperfect world. Secretary of State John Kerry argued in his recent speech that Israel can be either democratic or Jewish, but not both. What…
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Community Dublin Is Not Jerusalem
In the aftermath of the U.S.’s decision to abstain from a vote criticizing Israeli settlements at the UN, Barack Obama and company have shown their true colors and in a calculated move, going on to stab Israel, not in the back but in the front. The departing president refused to veto United Nations Security Council…
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Fast Forward Coldplay to Play 2 Israeli-Palestinian Peace Concerts in West Bank
(JTA) — The British rock band Coldplay will play two “peace concerts” for Israelis and Palestinians. The concerts, set for Nov. 3 and 4, will be performed at an outdoor location north of the Dead Sea, Israel’s Channel 2 reported Monday. The shows will aim to promote human rights and bring people together, The Times of…
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Opinion John Kerry’s Leaned Over Backward to Praise Israel — and the Numbers Prove It
Israel’s prime minister has claimed that John Kerry’s recent speech, given in response to U.N. Security Council Resolution 2334, was “unbalanced and anti-Israeli.” A quantitative and qualitative review of the the December 28 speech, however, shows the opposite. From the very beginning, Kerry was clearly making the case for Israel. During the speech, “Israel” received…
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Israel News For Palestinian Kids, 2016 ‘Deadliest Year’ in a Decade: Rights Group
More Palestinian children died in 2016 by Israeli fire than by any other year in the last decade, said Defense for Children International’s Palestine branch. The group counted 32 Palestinian children killed by the Israel Defense Forces, police and security guards in 2016. The group defines a child as anyone under the age of 18….
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