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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Opinion Praying for Kidnapped Teens — and Israel’s Sanity
Getty Images (Haaretz) — Like (almost) everyone else, I hope against hope for the safe return of the three kidnapped yeshiva students. One can only imagine their nightmarish ordeal as well as the agony and anguish of the father or mother whose child has disappeared under such bone-chilling circumstances. But it is not only the…
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Israel News Kidnapping Unites Jewish Community as Israel Splits Are Set Aside
In a rare moment of unity, the kidnapping of three Israeli teens in the West Bank has brought together a Jewish community deeply divided over Israel. Debates over Israeli policy, often fraught with friction, were put aside as communal players from right to left joined in support of efforts to rescue the three yeshiva students…
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Fast Forward Gun Battle Erupts as Israel Presses Search for Kiddnapped Teens
Israeli forces traded gunfire with Palestinians on Thursday, the military said, in the fiercest street battles in the occupied West Bank since a search began for three Israeli teenagers missing for a week. Hospital officials said three Palestinians suffered bullet wounds in the overnight clashes in Jenin, a militant stronghold and the scene of deadly…
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Opinion Benjamin Netanyahu Lashes Out at Hamas — But Real Enemy Is Elsewhere
On Monday afternoon, June 9, the research director of Israel’s military intelligence corps appeared before an international audience of defense experts and policymakers at a conference near Tel Aviv and delivered an hour-long, rapid-fire outline of the strategic threats and opportunities facing the Jewish state in 2014. Speaking in a terse, emotionless Hebrew, Brigadier General…
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Opinion Twisting a Palestinian’s Three-Finger Salute
Arab Idol winner Mohammed Assaf, left; Palestinian student Mohammad AlQadi, right Since the kidnapping of three Israeli teens last Thursday, the Israeli media has been engaged in a full court press to fill in the blanks and tell a compelling story — whether or not it’s true. Today, I came across a Facebook post from Mohammad…
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Fast Forward Kidnapping of Teens Puts Strain on Palestinian Unity
(Reuters) — The disappearance of three Jewish youths in the occupied West Bank has rocked reconciliation between Palestinian political factions and risks sinking a new unity government, analysts and officials have said. Israel has accused the Islamist group Hamas of orchestrating the kidnapping of the three teenagers last Thursday and has detained at least 240 Palestinians…
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Fast Forward Israel Arrests 51 Prisoners It Freed in Gilad Shalit Swap as Crackdown Widens
Israel re-arrested 51 Palestinians freed in a 2011 prisoner swap deal, the army said on Wednesday, in the sixth day of a hunt for three missing teenagers believed abducted in the occupied West Bank. Israel accuses Hamas Islamists of kidnapping the seminary students, who disappeared on Thursday while hitchhiking from a Jewish settlement. There has…
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Opinion Kidnapping of West Bank Teens Points To Worse To Come
As June opened, it was easy to joke that an honest headline writer could only proclaim “Hamas Gives Up Control of Gaza; Israel Outraged.” But with the abduction of three Israeli teenagers who were reportedly hitchhiking in the West Bank, it is clear that the implications of the current political situation are not funny. Yes,…
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