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Fast Forward British Labour Party Suspends Members Of ‘Palestine’ Facebook Group
(JTA) — Britain’s Labour Party suspended several members of a private Facebook group that included the party’s leader, Jeremy Corbyn, over alleged anti-Semitic hate speech. Reports in the British media Thursday did not name those who were suspended. The group had thousands of members. A spokesperson for Corbyn, a left-wing politician whom many Jews accuse…
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Community The Jew-Free State Solution
In a recent solicitation email, J Street President Jeremy Ben Ami proclaimed that the “Palestinians are the only party willing to publicly endorse the goal of two states for two peoples.” Referencing Abbas’ speech to the United Nations Security Council, Ben Ami claimed that “Abbas laid out explicit support for the two-state solution and put…
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Fast Forward Trump Peace Plan Could Recognize Palestinian State
The Trump administration’s proposal for an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal could include recognizing a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital, the Saudi newspaper Asharq al-Awsat reported Wednesday. The report, citing “knowledgeable Arab diplomatic sources,” claimed that the United States was also proposing that the Old City of Jerusalem would be placed under “international protection.”…
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Opinion You Can’t Force A Peace Deal, President Trump
A central and enduring premise of American pro-Israel leadership has always been that any resolution of the conflict between Israel and its neighbors, specifically including the Palestinians, should not be imposed from the outside, but must instead result from agreement between the parties. It is this principle — that a US administration cannot force a…
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Fast Forward Trump Tells Putin: Now Is The Time For An Israeli-Palestinian Peace Deal
WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Donald Trump told Russian President Vladimir Putin that the time was ripe for an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal. “President Putin noted that he would meet with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas later today, and President Trump said that now is the time to work toward an enduring peace agreement,” the White House…
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Fast Forward Israel Might Not Be Looking To Make Peace, Trump Tells Israeli Newspaper
JERUSALEM (JTA) — President Donald Trump told an Israeli newspaper that both Israel and the Palestinians will have to “make hard compromises” to reach a peace agreement. The American president also called the Iran nuclear deal “catastrophic for Israel,” during his interview with Israel Hayom editor-in-chief Boaz Bismuth, held in the Oval Office. The free…
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Fast Forward CIA Is Helping Palestinian Authority Wiretap People, Leaked Documents Claim
(JTA) — A leaked document alleges that the Palestinian Authority has been wiretapping its residents with the backing of the CIA. The document was shared on the messaging service WhatsApp by an anonymous employee of the Palestinian wiretapping agency last month, according to The Associated Press. It says the agency was set up jointly by three…
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Community The Destruction Of Susya Would Spell Disaster For Israel
This past summer, as a J Street U intern in Israel, I visited two West Bank towns by the same name: the Palestinian village of Susya and the nearby Israeli settlement of Susya. I expected to see a disparity between them, but what I witnessed was shocking injustice. While the surrounding settlements and outposts were…
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