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Israel News Gaza Doctor Gives Israeli President Reuven Rivlin a Stark Diagnosis on Conflict
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin received a stark diagnosis on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on Wednesday from a Gaza doctor. “Israelis are sick with the disease of fear because of their history and narrative,” Izzeldin Abuelaish, a Toronto-based doctor from Gaza told Rivlin, according to Israeli news site Ynet. “The Palestinians are sick with the disease of…
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Israel News Meet Shifa al-Qudsi, Wannabe Palestinian Suicide Bomber Turned Peace Activist
Shifa al-Qudsi once sought vengeance on Israel, trying and failing to commit a suicide bombing against the Jewish state. But after six years spent in prison for her crime, the Palestinian former hairdresser now advocates nonviolence as a peace activist, the New York Times reported in a Saturday profile. “They occupy your home, your land,…
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Opinion Israel Has Disappeared From the Presidential Campaign. Should We Care?
This presidential election cycle has seen an unprecedented number of words and phrases enter the campaign lexicon, repeated again and again until they take on a life — or a hashtag — of their own. Loser. Crooked. Deplorables. Nasty woman. Build the wall. Putin’s puppet. And a few other choice ones I’d rather not repeat…
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Letters Why Israelis Are Right To Oppose the Palestinian ‘Right of Return’
Dear Editor, There is a fundamental misunderstanding in one of the Forward’s articles, dated October 17 and titled, “If Israel Lets In Palestinian Refugees, Will It Lose Its Jewish Character?” The five million descendants of Arab refugees from the 1948 war who continue to live in 59 refugee facilities administered by UNRWA in Israel, Lebanon,…
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Opinion It’s Not Just the Palestinians Who Are Getting the UNESCO Temple Mount Resolution All Wrong
UNESCO’s most recent resolution on Jerusalem is offensive and disrespectful. Passed on October 13 by a vote of 24 to 6, with 26 abstentions, the resolution refers to the Temple Mount and the Western Wall by its Muslim names only, an act which ignores history and fact and negates Jewish and Christian beliefs about the…
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Opinion Why the Fight Over Israeli Settlements Is Reaching a Boiling Point
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is caught in a tightening pincer of opposing pressures as his government faces a court-ordered December 25 deadline to dismantle the West Bank’s oldest and largest illegal settlement outpost. The main combatants include Israel’s Supreme Court, the settler movement and the Obama administration. Caught in the middle are Netanyahu and…
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Breaking News Britain Suspends Aid to Palestinians Over Payments to Terrorists
– The United Kingdom suspended millions of dollars-worth of aid payments to the Palestinian Authority amid claims that taxpayers cash is ending up in the hands of terrorists. Britain’s International Development Secretary Priti Patel has ordered a freeze pending an investigation, The Sun on Friday reported. Earlier this summer lawmakers demanded action after revelations that…
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Breaking News Mahmoud Abbas Comes Under Fire for Mourning ‘Hated’ Shimon Peres
The presence of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at the funeral of Shimon Peres on Friday — the only Arab head of state to attend — has highlighted internal divisions within the Palestinian camp, evoking ambivalence from supporters and indignation from political foes. Abbas was subjected to harsh criticism across much of the Arab world…
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