This is the Forward’s coverage of the West Bank, a Palestinian territory occupied by Israel and a focus of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Fast Forward Settlers Vandalize West Bank Mosque
A mosque near Hebron was spray painted with graffiti referring to a West Bank outpost. “Price Tag Migron” was painted on the wall of a mosque in Dura, a village located southwest of Hebron. Palestinian residents informed West Bank police on Tuesday evening. Price tag refers to the strategy that extremists have adopted to exact…
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Fast Forward Palestinians Aim To Ease Hardship Amid Protests
Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayad announced measures to ease economic hardship following stepped up Palestinian protests in the West Bank. Fayad on Tuesday announced that the value added tax will be reduced by two percent to 15 percent and he lowered prices on diesel, gas and kerosene, following a meeting with ministers to discuss…
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Fast Forward Israel Cabinet Approves University in Settlement
The Israeli government voted overwhelmingly in favor of recognizing the Ariel University Center of Samaria as an accredited university on Sunday. The cabinet resolution is symbolic, since the controversial change to the status of the institution, which is located in the West Bank city of Ariel, must first be approved by the High Court of…
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Fast Forward Israel Foots Bill To Move Illegal Settlers
The Israeli government is footing the bill, worth hundreds of thousands of shekels, for moving caravans in the now-evacuated West Bank outpost of Migron. The caravans are owned and rented out by an organization called “Amana,” which supports settlements in the West Bank and other areas of Israel. The mobile structures at Migron are not…
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Opinion Occupation Corrupts Soul of Israel
It is tempting to impute retroactive intentionality to yesterday’s events. As Gershom Gorenberg felicitously puts it, we mistakenly assume “that if things turned out a certain way, someone planned it that way.” Looking back now, it may seem a foregone conclusion that Israel’s settlement policy in the West Bank (and in Golan, too) was from…
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Fast Forward Some Illegal Settlers Start To Move From Migron
Jewish families began evacuating the West Bank outpost of Migron. Families began moving out Sunday morning, as border police went door to door in the outpost handing out eviction notices. Some of the 50 families living on the hilltop reportedly left Saturday night. Israel’s Supreme Court ruled last week that the outpost must be evacuated…
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News One Beating Is Front Page, Another Goes Unnoticed
As Jamal Julani recovered in a hospital after being beaten unconscious in an August 17 attack that monopolized Israeli headlines for days, another Palestinian man was beaten unconscious. But this second attack flew under the radar of most Israelis. The first attack dominated not only the media, but also the political discussion, with figures throughout…
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Opinion All Eyes on Migron
Eight years after Israel promised America to start removing outposts and six years since the activist group Peace Now petitioned the courts to compel the government to evacuate the oldest outposts, it looks set to actually happen. Settlers have tried to save the outpost and the government has tried to give it a stay of…
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