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PALESTINIANS

Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Mar 24, 2015
White House chief demands end to 50 years of Israeli occupation
The United States expects the next Israeli government to end nearly 50 years of occupation and clear the way for a Palestinian state, White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough told Jewish Americans on Monday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Mar 9, 2015
Netanyahu denies report he's backed off two-state solution
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office denied reports on Sunday he has backed away from a 2009 commitment to seek a two-state peaceful solution with the Palestinians.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 27, 2015
British street artist Banksy takes aim at Gaza's privations
The eminent but anonymous British street artist known as Banksy has posted a minidocumentary on his website, banksy.co.uk, showing squalid conditions in the Gaza Strip six months after the end of the war between the enclave's Islamist Hamas rulers and Israel.
WORLD
Feb 1, 2015
Egyptian court bans Hamas' armed wing, lists as terrorist organization
An Egyptian court on Saturday banned the armed wing of Palestinian group Hamas and listed it as a terrorist organization, a ruling in keeping with a systematic crackdown on Islamists by President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 7, 2015
Snow forecast takes Holy Land by storm
With memories still fresh of the Holy Land's worst storm in 50 years last winter, Israelis and Palestinians stocked up on supplies for a forecast heavy snowfall on Tuesday.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Jan 6, 2015
Palestinian Authority still doesn't want a state
Last week's failed attempt by the Palestinian Authority to obtain recognition from the U.N. Security Council has mostly disappeared from the world's front pages. Indications are that PA President Mahmoud Abbas did not want the resolution to pass.
WORLD
Jan 1, 2015
Palestinians join war crimes court after U.N. rejection
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas signed on to 20 international agreements on Wednesday, including the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC), a day after a bid for independence by 2017 failed at the United Nations Security Council.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 26, 2014
Is Israel headed for 'an abyss'?
Settlement policies, military actions and now the Israeli national election in March and the U.S. elections in 2016 threaten to isolate Israel totally from the world of democracies.
WORLD / Politics
Nov 24, 2014
Israeli Cabinet approves Jewish nation-state law
A divided Cabinet approved on Sunday a bill to anchor in law Israel's status as the nation-state of the Jewish people, legislation critics say could undermine its democratic foundation and the rights of its Arab minority.
WORLD
Nov 21, 2014
Israel says Hamas planned to assassinate Lieberman in West Bank
Israel has arrested four Palestinians suspected of planning to kill Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman with an anti-tank rocket while he drove to his Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank, Israeli officials say.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 19, 2014
Palestinians kill four in Jerusalem synagogue attack
Two Palestinians armed with a meat cleaver and a gun killed four worshippers in a Jerusalem synagogue on Tuesday before being shot dead by police, the deadliest such incident in six years in the holy city.
WORLD
Sep 11, 2014
Human Rights Watch accuses Israel of war crimes in Gaza
Human Rights Watch accused Israel of committing war crimes by attacking three U.N.-run schools in the Gaza Strip in fighting in July and August, killing Palestinian civilians who had sheltered there.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 9, 2014
Can Palestine win the peace?
The tremendous sympathy and support Palestinians received from international observers because of the high price they paid during their 51-day war with Israel will be useless if the leaders of Hamas and Fatah fail to maintain a united front.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 21, 2014
Israeli airstrike kills three Hamas commanders in Gaza
Israel killed three senior Hamas commanders in an airstrike on the Gaza Strip on Thursday, the clearest signal yet that Israel is intent on eliminating the group's military leadership after a failed attempt on the life of its top commander this week.
WORLD
Aug 20, 2014
Gaza war rages on; Hamas says Israel tried to kill its military chief
Israeli airstrikes killed 11 Palestinians in Gaza, including the wife and infant son of Hamas' military leader, Mohammed Deif, in what the group said Wednesday was an attempt to assassinate him after a cease-fire collapsed.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 19, 2014
As Gaza war subsides, a battle over how it is investigated begins
Even before starting work as chairman of a U.N. human rights commission investigating the Gaza war, Canadian law professor William Schabas has been vilified as an apologist for Iran who is incapable of setting aside his perceived anti-Israel bias.
WORLD
Aug 13, 2014
Israel's Gaza blockade to be challenged
Pro-Palestinian activists said Tuesday they would send ships this year to the Gaza Strip to try to breach Israel's naval blockade, repeating an action that four years ago ended with Israeli marines boarding a vessel and killing nine Turks.
WORLD
Aug 11, 2014
Israel and Palestinians observe new truce; longer accord sought
Israel and Gaza Strip militants began to observe another Egypt-brokered truce, giving negotiators time to craft a more enduring accord after a month of violence in the Hamas-ruled territory.
WORLD
Aug 7, 2014
Israelis on Gaza border fear threat from tunnels isn't over
Many Israelis living on the Gaza border were unconvinced by their military's announcement that its mission was accomplished in a nearly monthlong campaign aimed at ending rocket strikes and tunnel infiltration.

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