By John Irish and Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS, Sept 22 (Reuters) – Dozens of world leaders gathered at the United Nations on Monday to embrace a Palestinian state, a landmark diplomatic shift nearly two years into the Gaza war that faces fierce resistance from Israel and its close ally the United States. President Emmanuel Macron announced that France would recognize Palestine statehood at …
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This year marks 74 years of Al-Nakba, or the Palestinian experience of dispossession and loss of their homeland. Every year on May 15, Palestinians around the world mark the Nakba, or catastrophe, referring to the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1948. Having secured the support of the British government for the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine, on May …
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Australia says the status of Jerusalem should be resolved in peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian people [File: Ammar Awad/Reuters] Foreign Minister Penny Wong says government ‘regrets’ decision made by previous administration and reiterates commitment to two-state solution. Australia says it will no longer recognise West Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, reversing a decision taken by the government …
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Known as ‘Bab al-Amoud’ in Arabic, the gate was first built during Roman rule nearly 2,000 years ago. Resembling a crown, the towering and turreted walls of the Damascus Gate are a significant landmark in the city of Jerusalem. Called Bab al-Amoud (“Gate of the Column”) by Palestinians and Sha’ar Sh’khem (“Nablus Gate”) in Hebrew, the structure has symbolic, cultural, and political importance for …
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Israel's apologists would call the BDS campaign "immoral", but the slander is laughably false. Israeli think-tank fellow Yossi Klein Halevi, writing recently in the Los Angeles Times would have American readers believe that the Boycott, Divest and Sanctions movement is “immoral” and threatens the peace of "the region's only intact society", while simultaneously boasting it can't touch Israel's health and …
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