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 Israelis Demonstrate Against Gov’t in Tel Aviv, Call for Solution to Conflict
Thousands of Israelis demonstrated against the current government and called for a solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict. About 3,000 demonstrators met Saturday night in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square and marched to the Israel Defense Department headquarters. The demonstrators chanted slogans such as “Jews and Arabs don’t want to hate each other,” and “Israel, Palestine, two…
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Fast Forward Arab Woman Killed at Hebron Holy Site After Threatening to Stab Police
An Arab woman was shot and killed by Border Police officers at the entrance to the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron after she took out a knife and threatened them. The woman acted suspiciously early Sunday afternoon as she waited to enter the site holy to both Muslims and Jews. She then took out…
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Fast Forward Israel Claims Citizen Entered Syria Using Paraglider Over Golan Heights
Israel said on Sunday that one of its citizens, probably a member of the country’s Muslim Arab minority, had illegally flown to rebellion-wracked Syria by using a paraglider to cross the Golan Heights frontier. Israeli media gave the man’s age as 23 and quoted investigators as speculating that he sought to join Islamic State or…
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Fast Forward Rabbi Injured in Har Nof Synagogue Terror Attack Dies of Wounds
An Israeli man injured nearly a year ago in a terror attack on a synagogue in the Har Nof neighborhood of Jerusalem died of his injures. Thousands of people gathered on Saturday night for the funeral of Rabbi Haim Yechiel (Howie) Rothman. The funeral procession started at the Bnei Torah synagogue where the attack occurred…
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Opinion Does Gleaming Palestinian City on Hill Offer Hope Amid Violence?
A gleaming bus stop greets visitors on the main road to the new Palestinian city of Rawabi in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Construction equipment is busy carving blocks out of the hillsides. A sign directs traffic to the police station in one direction and to the showroom filled with scale models in another. A giant…
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Fast Forward UN Disciplines Palestinian Staffers for Anti-Semitic Facebook Posts
Several employees of the U.N. agency handling Palestinian refugees were punished for disseminating content that promoted violence or anti-Semitism, a United Nations official said. The punishments, which included suspension and loss of pay “in a number of cases so far,” were made public on Oct. 20 on the website of the office of the spokesperson…
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Opinion 4 Times Israelis and Palestinians Stuck Up for One Another
As the latest round of violence unfolds, Israelis and Palestinians seem to mostly be interacting in bloody, enraged spasms of appalling brutality. Quickly uploaded to social media feeds, horrific videos provide graphic proof of just how awful humans can be to one another. And yet, those aren’t the only stories. Amid the violence and hatred…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Uprising Puts Mahmoud Abbas in a Corner
A three-week-old uprising by knife-wielding, Internet-generation teenagers against Israelis has left 80-year-old Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas looking like yesterday’s man, unable either to oppose the violence or openly endorse it. Having promised the Palestinian people when he came to power a decade ago that he could bring about an independent state through peaceful means, he…
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