This is the Forward’s coverage of Israeli settlements in the West Bank, a point of contention in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Fast Forward Israeli Intelligence Eavesdropped on John Kerry During Peace Negotiations
Israeli intelligence eavesdropped on telephone conversations made by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry during Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations, Der Spiegel reported. In addition to Israel, at least one other intelligence agency also listened in on the phone calls, the German weekly reported in an article to appear in its Monday print edition. A summary was…
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Israel News What Kind of Israel Do Settlers Want?
Jane Eisner’s special report, Across the Green Line, will run in two parts, starting today and continuing tomorrow. Here’s how Ofra began as a Jewish community. Modern history puts the start date as April 1975. Ofra’s inhabitants will tell you that its real beginning goes back to the Book of Joshua, a lineage that makes…
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Opinion Trace Kidnap-Murders Back to Israeli Settlements
Palestinian families leave their houses following Israeli air strikes in Gaza City / Getty Images When I was 14 years old, I remember my father, Edgar M. Bronfman, publicly calling for the end of Israeli settlement building. It was 1977, the very beginning of the implementation of the Drobles Plan, and only a few thousand…
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Opinion What Did You Expect?
What did you expect? Did you think that terrorists wouldn’t attack three teenagers hitchhiking on a Palestinian road? Did you think that the Palestinian population isn’t angry enough to create extremist fringes like this? Did you really think that a continued occupation and no hope for independence would not breed some percentage of hard-core, terrorist…
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Fast Forward Martin Indyk Says Israeli Settlements Killed Middle East Peace Talks
Martin Indyk, the former chief U.S. envoy for Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts, said Israeli settlement activity caused the Palestinians to walk away from negotiations. Indyk, who quit his post as peace envoy last week after the breakdown of talks, blamed settlement activity for the failure in an interview published Thursday by The Atlantic. “The Israeli attitude…
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Opinion Did Bibi’s ‘Vengeance’ Tweets Provoke Violence?
Getty Images In moments of national tension — Israelis know these all too well — one can expect a leader to measure every word on a scale that calms on one side and inflames on the other. So what are we to make of Benjamin Netanyahu’s tweets on Monday as the country was preparing to…
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Opinion When ‘Death to Arabs’ Rings Out in Holy City
Israel is consumed with calls for revenge for the murders of three kidnapped students. But some are pushing back against the cycle of hate./Getty Images The headlines in Israel this week have been overwhelming. First the bodies of the three kidnapped Israeli teenagers — Naftali Frenkel, Gil-ad Shaer and Eyal Yifrach — were found, buried,…
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Fast Forward Kidnappers of Teens Celebrate on New Tape
The full recording of the emergency call placed by one of three abducted teens, in which the kidnappers can be heard celebrating, was released. Wednesday’s release of the full audio, which is 2 minutes, 9 seconds, comes a day after the first 49 seconds were released. In the full tape, the kidnappers are heard singing…
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