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 Boys Arrested in West Bank Taxi Firebombing
Three teens were arrested on suspicion of being involved in the firebombing of a Palestinian taxi. The three teens, ages 12 and 13, were arrested Sunday, two of them reportedly at the yeshiva middle school that they attend. The firebomb attack occurred Aug. 16 near the Bat Ayin settlement in the Gush Etzion bloc. A…
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Opinion Israel Faces Extremists, U.S. Ignores Them
The dog days of August brought serious wakeup calls for Israel and the United States in their respective struggles against terrorism. Both nations were shaken by violent attacks coming from a direction they hadn’t been watching: racist, right-wing nativists. The similarities between the crises are instructive, and disturbing. So are the differences. For Americans, the…
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Fast Forward Illegal Settlers Squabble Over Evacuation Plans
Residents of the West Bank outpost of Givat Assaf have sent a letter to neighboring residents of the outpost of Migron blaming them of harming the settlement enterprise, saying that their actions will bring about the evacuation of additional West Bank outposts. Givat Assaf is located near Migron on privately owned Palestinian lands, with the…
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Fast Forward Bibi Set To Kill ‘No Occupation’ Report
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has decided to bury the Levy Report, which recommends legalizing most unauthorized settlement outposts in the West Bank and making it easier for existing settlements to expand, a senior politician who spoke with the premier about the issue told Haaretz yesterday. Since the Levy Report was submitted, on June 21, Netanyahu…
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Culture Cystic Fibrosis Knows No Borders
For generations, one Palestinian village just east of Jerusalem watched young adult after young adult lose their lives to a disabling disease. Eventually, the villagers learned that the previously unnamed killer was cystic fibrosis, a recessive genetic disorder that thickens mucous in the lungs and leads to life-threatening infections. But they failed to grasp that…
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Opinion ‘No Occupation’ Report Negates Israel’s Legitimacy
Considerable attention has been focused these last several weeks on the report of Israel’s Levy Commission. No great surprise: The three-person commission, appointed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to render an advisory opinion regarding Jewish settlement in the West Bank, determined that there is no barrier to such settlement and, indeed, that the legality of…
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Opinion Israel Can’t Ignore the World’s Opinion
A friend wrote in last week to dispute my critique of Israeli judge Edmond Levy’s settlements report. Levy claimed the West Bank isn’t “occupied” under international law, and therefore settlements aren’t illegal. I wrote that while his interpretation squares with the language of the relevant treaties, not one nation in the world accepts it, so…
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Fast Forward Disney Scion Dumps Ahava Over Occupation
Abigail Disney, a descendant of one of the Disney Company founders, has announced that she is disclaiming her share of the family’s investment in the Israeli cosmetics company Ahava, due to the fact that it is located in the West Bank and is engaged in the “exploitation of occupied natural resources.” Disney announced Monday that…
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