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Breaking News Palestinian Man Attempts Stabbing Attack in West Bank Settlement
A Palestinian man was arrested while attempting to carry out a stabbing attack in the West Bank settlement of Maale Adumim. The man, who appeared to be drunk, was carrying a 12-inch knife at the entrance to the community on Friday night, it was announced late Saturday. He told police called to the scene that…
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Opinion Netanyahu’s Fake Jerusalem Stalls Peace
Benjamin Netanyahu / Getty Images Last week we learned that Israel’s government is advancing plans for another 2,269 settler homes in the West Bank and East Jerusalem; 144 are planned for the Jerusalem settlement neighborhood of Har Homa. Discussion surrounding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict tends to focus on minutiae, or the broad sweep of an entire…
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Opinion Harvard Group Was Right To Visit Arafat’s Grave
Harvard students pose at Yasser Arafat’s grave. / Twitter Last Monday, the Harvard College Israel Trek went to the Muqata’a, the offices of the Palestinian government, in Ramallah. While they were there, the group took a picture with Yasser Arafat’s grave, which was inevitably Tweeted by the group’s tour guide. The photo was picked up…
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Breaking News Israel Kills 3 Militants in West Bank Raid
Israeli forces shot three Palestinian militants dead on Saturday in a raid on a home in the occupied West Bank to capture a wanted Hamas Islamist militant, Israeli military and Palestinian officials said. The Palestinian Authority denounced the violence that it said threatened U.S.-brokered peace talks ahead of a looming April deadline set by Secretary…
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Breaking News Israel Plans 2,372 More Homes for Settlers
Israel has promoted building plans for 2,372 homes in eight Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank in the past month, on land the Palestinians want for a future state, an anti-settlement watchdog has said. The plans, the largest of which is for 839 homes in the Ariel settlement bloc, are at different stages of…
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Opinion Will Settlers and Arabs Unite To Tank Peace?
John Kerry / Getty Images As Jerusalem and Ramallah wait anxiously to see the framework peace agreement that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is drafting, large numbers of Israelis are ready to take matters into their own hands if they don’t like what they see. A survey by the Israel Democracy Institute just asked…
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Israel News Evangelical Christians Rally Against Occupation as Palestinians Gain Support
On a bleak and rainy morning, the Israeli military checkpoint in Bethlehem looked especially depressing: rain-soaked concrete walls, a loose tin roof clattering in the wind, and Palestinian workers running across wet gravel into a cage-like narrow corridor to cross into Israel. That’s the sight that greeted two dozen Christian visitors to the Israeli-occupied West…
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Breaking News IDF Air Force Strikes 29 Gaza Sites After 40 Rockets Hit Southern Israel
Israel’s Air Force attacked 29 sites in the Gaza Strip after more than 40 rockets and mortars were fired from Gaza at communities in southern Israel. The Israel Defense Forces responded to Wednesday evening’s rocket attacks, hitting what it called in a statement 29 “terror locations” in Gaza with artillery fire. “This retaliation was precise…
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