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Fast Forward Palestinian Loses UN Gig Over Ties To Hamas
(JTA) — A Palestinian Gazan is no longer employed by a United Nations Agency for Palestinian refugees after it was discovered that he was elected to the leadership of the terrorist group Hamas. Agency leaders did not tell media who inquired over the weekend whether Suhail al-Hindi resigned or was fired from the U.N. Relief…
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Fast Forward Trumpeting ‘Unbreakable’ Ties, Germany Still Presses Israel On Palestinian Statehood
Deep and “unbreakable” ties between Germany and Israel are part of Germany’s national identity and pillars of its foreign policy, but Berlin will continue to press for a two-state solution, Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel said on Sunday. “With respect to the Middle East conflict, our solidarity with Israel also means working to ensure that Israel…
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Fast Forward Mahmoud Abbas Set To Meet Trump On May 3
President Donald Trump will host Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Washington on May 3, the White House said on Wednesday. “They will use the visit to reaffirm the commitment of both the United States and Palestinian leadership to pursuing and ultimately concluding a conflict-ending settlement between the Palestinians and Israel,” White House spokesman Sean Spicer…
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Fast Forward Madrid Official Hosts Solidarity Event For Jailed Palestinian Terrorists
(JTA) — A deputy mayor of Madrid hosted in a municipal space an event honoring Palestinian terrorists from Hamas and other groups who are imprisoned in Israel. The event, titled “International Day of Palestinian Prisoners,” was hosted Monday at the main municipal space of the district of Retiro in the southeastern part of the center…
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Fast Forward Michael Oren Slams New York Times For ‘Journalistic Terrorism’ Over Palestinian Op-Ed
Michael Oren, an Israeli parliamentarian and former ambassador to the United States, said that the New York Times had committed a “journalistic terrorist attack” in publishing an op-ed by imprisoned Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti. In an interview on Monday on Israel’s Army Radio, Oren said that the New York Times should be “held accountable” if…
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Fast Forward 1,500 Jailed Palestinians Join Hunger Strike Led By Marwan Barghouti
Hundreds of Palestinians in Israeli jails began a hunger strike on Monday in response to a call by prominent prisoner Marwan Barghouti, widely seen as a possible future Palestinian president. Palestinians termed the open-ended strike a protest against poor conditions and an Israeli policy of detention without trial that has been applied against thousands since…
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Fast Forward Mahmoud Abbas Set To Meet Trump Within Next Month
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is scheduled to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump on May 3 in Washington DC, a Palestinian official confirmed. The visit was confirmed to the Jerusalem Post on Sunday by top Palestinian official Ahmad Majdalani. Other Israeli media outlets cited a report in the Jordanian newspaper Al…
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Fast Forward Slain British Woman Gave Her Seat To A Woman With A Baby
The British student killed by a Palestinian assailant on the Jerusalem light rail had just given up her seat so that a woman holding a baby could sit down, according to a report on Israel’s Channel 2 news. Hannah Bladon, 20, had just moved to the exit door of the train so that the woman…
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