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Advocates for Palestinian Bedouin villagers are ‘putting lives in danger for a political game’, says London Israeli Embassy spokesman
We spoke to Ohad Zemet, who is a spokesman for the Israeli Embassy in London. We asked him – given that international law prohibits moving people in occupied territory against their will – why Israel is carrying out these removals?
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Israel demolishes an entire Palestinian village
Israel has been demolishing a Palestinian Bedouin village in the occupied West Bank, bulldozing tents on land where people have lived for a generation. Israel claims that residents were living there illegally, but human rights groups say it’s an attempt to drive an entire Palestinian community from the area. And the international community is speaking…
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Daniel Barenboim on a peaceful resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
One of the strongest advocates for finding a peaceful resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is Daniel Barenboim.
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Activist Akram Salhab on the Palestinian experience of British colonialism
Are there some parts of this country’s history that remain off-limits for discussion?
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Palestinian peace negotiator dies with Covid-19
Three days of mourning have been declared after the death of the Palestinian peace negotiator Dr Saeb Erekat. The 65 year old died from Covid-19. He was a witty and popular figure, credited with helping to negotiate the 1993 Oslo Accords that gave Palestinians the right to govern the Gaza Strip and parts of the…
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Trump Middle East peace plan meets hostility from Palestinian leaders
They were two embattled leaders standing side by side, hailing a new peace deal for Israel and the Palestinians.
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‘The US cannot rewrite international law to fit Trump’s ideology’, says former spokeswoman for Palestinian PM
Well joining me now from Ramallah in the West Bank is Nour Odeh, a political analyst and former Spokeswoman for the Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad’s government.
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Israelis and Palestinians absent from Kushner Middle East conference
He called it “Peace to Prosperity”, but the workshop arranged by President Trump’s son-in-law, setting out his personal vision for achieving peace in the Middle East, had two noticeable absentees – the Israelis and the Palestinians, who have rejected out of hand Jared Kushner’s plan to put money before politics.
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New York Times’ David Kirkpatrick: Trump is ‘bludgeoning Palestinians’ into surrender
We’re joined by David Kirkpatrick from the New York Times, who was the paper’s Cairo bureau chief for a number of years and has written a book on the Arab Spring.
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Palestinian MP Dr Mustafa Barghouti: ‘This is a very dangerous and bad step’
We spoke to Palestinian MP Dr Mustafa Barghouti and began by asking him whether he agreed that the funding cuts to UNWRA would be disastrous.
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United States ends funding for UN Palestinian refugee agency
Palestinian officials have denounced America’s decision to stop funding the UN agency which helps Palestinian refugees – saying it would only “strengthen terrorism” in the region.
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Dr Mustafa Bhargouti: US aid cuts “will not affect the political decisions of the Palestinians.”
Matt Frei speaks with Palestinian MP Dr Mustafa Bhargouti and began by asking what effect the announced cuts to US funding in Palestine will have.
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Corbyn on wreath at Palestinian cemetery
Another day, another shift in the row over what Jeremy Corbyn was doing in 2014 in a Tunis cemetery containing the graves of Palestinian fighters killed by Israel. Yesterday Mr Corbyn said he was present but didn’t think he was actually involved when a wreath was laid for those suspected of involvement in the Munich massacre of 1972. Today…
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Corbyn admits attending wreath-laying ceremony for Palestinian militants suspected of Munich massacre
He says he was present, but doesn’t “think” he was actually involved. It seems the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn was at a 2014 wreath-laying ceremony for members of a Palestinian group suspected of carrying out the Munich Olympics massacre. Mr Corbyn said he’d been at the event in Tunisia because he wanted to see a “fitting memorial to everyone who has…
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Benjamin Netanyahu confronted by former Conservative leader over the killing of Palestinian protestors
The former Conservative party leader Michael Howard, has confronted Israel’s prime minister over the killing of hundreds of Palestinian protestors by Israeli troops using live ammunition – demanding ‘why did you have to kill them’. Benjamin Netanyahu – who’s been in Europe to talk about the Iran nuclear deal – claimed Israel had tried to minimise casualties, blaming Hamas for…