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Fast Forward J Street Joins Push Against Israel Separate Bus Policy
Three American Jewish organizations responded to an appeal by an Israeli Labor party affiliate to press Israel’s government to distance itself from a plan to keep Palestinians off some Israeli buses. “Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon has decided to forbid Palestinian workers, who work in Israel, to ride buses which also serve Jewish civil population in…
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Fast Forward Israel Finance Chief Balks at Funding Settlements
Israel’s finance minister, Yair Lapid, said he would not agree to invest funds in West Bank settlements. Lapid made his remarks Wednesday during a ministerial meeting at the Prime Minister’s Office on improving West Bank infrastructure. He was responding to reports that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approved planning for at least 1,000 new housing units…
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Opinion Young Israelis Say No to Separate Buses
An Israeli soldier walks past a bus on which suspected Jewish vandals painted graffiti reading ‘Gentiles in the land are enemies’ / Getty Images Young Israelis don’t want separate bus lines for Palestinians — and they’re asking American Jews to ensure segregation never becomes a reality. That’s the nutshelled version of a letter sent today…
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Opinion Separate Buses? That’s How Occupation Rolls.
Getty Images As of next month, Israel will operate separate buses for Palestinian residents of the West Bank returning from jobs as day laborers in Israel, thanks to political pressure from West Bank settlers who donʼt want to ride on the same buses as “Arabs.” The question is: Should we care? Settler leaders claim that…
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Fast Forward Israel Bars Palestinians From Riding ‘Jewish’ Buses in West Bank
New guidelines issued by Israel Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon will prevent Palestinian workers from riding on Israeli public transportation in the West Bank. Under the new guidelines announced Sunday, all Palestinian workers must return to the West Bank through one crossing, the Eyal crossing located near Kalkilya in central Israel, and continue to their homes…
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Opinion When Palestinians Bury an American Teen
Palestinian mourners carry Orwa Hammad to a prayer session at a Silwad school / Naomi Zeveloff On Sunday afternoon, the main street in Silwad, a village north of Ramallah in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, was lined with parked cars for as far as the eye could see. Palestinians from all over the area had come…
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Fast Forward Thousands Attend Funeral of Palestinian-American Teen
Thousands of mourners attended the funeral of a Palestinian boy with American citizenship who was killed by Israel Defense Forces soldiers. The funeral for Orwa Hammad, 14, took place Sunday afternoon in the West Bank village of Silwad, near Ramallah. The funeral was delayed until Sunday so that Hammad’s father, who lives in the United…
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Fast Forward Palestinian Boy Shot Dead During Clashes in the West Bank
A Palestinian boy was shot dead during clashes between Israeli soldiers and stone-throwing protesters in the occupied West Bank on Friday, medics and residents said. Orwah Hammad, 14, was shot in the head in the village of Silwad, north of the Palestinian seat of government in Ramallah. An army spokesman told Reuters Israeli forces “managed…
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