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Ra'am party leader Mahmoud Abbas (David Cohen / Flash90); The charter of the Southern Islamic Movement
April 4, 2021, 6:39 pm
Ra’am’s guiding charter backs Palestinian right of return, calls Zionism racist
While Mansour Abbas is being wooed amid post-election deadlock, the Southern Islamic Movement, of which his party is the political wing, takes positions most Jewish Israelis abhor
By Aaron Boxerman
A Palestinian man from the Gaza Strip, right, seen with his Israeli Jewish mother after he crossed into Israel to live with her, December 2019. (Courtesy: Yad L'Achim)
January 2, 2020, 5:33 am
Palestinian from Gaza reunited with Jewish Israeli mother after 30 years
After she finally tracked her son down, 3 decades after he was abducted by his father, the man has been allowed to move to Israel and given full citizenship
By Stuart Winer
Palestinians collect food aid at a United Nations food distribution center in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on January 28, 2018. (Said Khatib/AFP)
September 1, 2018, 9:32 pm
EU urges US to reconsider its defunding of UNRWA, but also calls for reform
Europe says it will continue to support UN’s Palestinian refugee aid agency, but says it requires ‘transformative process’; Jordan warns of ‘extremely dangerous implications’
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Former Jordanian prime minister Abdelsalam al-Majali in a TV interview on August 18, 2018. (Screenshot: YouTube/MEMRI)
August 30, 2018, 9:24 am
Jordan PM who signed Israel peace deal: Haifa should be taken by force if we can
‘If we ever have military power, will we let them keep Haifa? We’ll take it,’ Abdelsalam al-Majali says in TV interview, while praising Israel for water supply
By Michael Bachner
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas chairs a meeting of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Executive Committee at the Palestinian Authority headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah July 28, 2018. (ABBAS MOMANI/AFP)
August 29, 2018, 4:01 pm
Abbas says he opposes solution to refugee issue that would ‘destroy Israel’
Palestinian official confirms substance of remarks, though he says Abbas used different wording — that he does not want ‘to drown’ Israel with Palestinian refugees
By Adam Rasgon
Former MK Einat Wilf in Jerusalem, May 29, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
July 30, 2018, 2:31 am
A self-declared leftist wages war on the Palestinian ‘right of return’
In new book, ex-Labor MK Einat Wilf says the refugee ethos is the biggest obstacle to peace. She blames the international community, the Israeli government and the IDF
By Raphael Ahren
Thousands of Arab Israelis join a protest on May 12, 2016, calling for the return of Palestinian refugees from the 1948 war. ( Dov Lieber)
March 7, 2018, 9:10 pm
Gazans plan ‘peaceful resistance’ tent protest near Israel border
Organizers hope six-week action to urge ‘right of return’ for Palestinian refugees will attract hundreds of thousands
By Sue Surkes
From left: Moshe Jakubowitz, Moshe Ha-Elion, Esther Miron, Max Privler, Jeannine Stephane-Bouhanna, Elka Abromovitz, and Moshe Porat, the torch lighters for the 2017 Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem (Yaakov Schwartz/Times of Israel)
April 21, 2017, 9:52 am
With stories as varied as their accents, survivors ready for Holocaust memorial ceremony
Emotional dress rehearsal at Yad Vashem introduces the six torch-lighters and the woman who will share her story with the country at Sunday’s event
By Yaakov Schwartz
Children stand near the 'El Transito' synagogue and Sephardic Museum in Toledo, Spain on February 27, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Gerard Julien)
June 11, 2015, 8:13 pm
Spain passes law of return for Sephardic Jews
Applicants to be vetted by local Jewish community, face language and history tests before securing new passport
By JTA
Boats by the port of Porto, Portugal, on August 16, 2013. (photo credit: Isaac Harari/Flash90)
January 29, 2015, 5:27 pm
Portugal approves Sephardic Jew citizenship plan
Applicants to be vetted in cooperation with local Jewish community; similar legislation underway in Spain
By AP
Mahmoud Abbas (center right) and Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal speak to reporters after talks in Cairo in February 2012 (photo credit: Amr Nabil/AP)
May 15, 2014, 5:11 pm
Nakba Day highlights Fatah, Hamas differences on Israel
On the anniversary of Israel’s founding, Hamas vows to continue armed struggle, while Abbas appeals for Israeli empathy
By Elhanan Miller
Interior of La Mezquita, the Mosque-Cathedral of Cordoba, Spain (photo credit: eliahh/Wikimedia Commons)
February 20, 2014, 3:32 am
Muslims demand equal terms for citizenship in Spain
Following approval of a bill to allow the naturalization of Sephardic Jews, Spanish Muslims argue for a similar right of return
By JTA
Illustrative photo of US Secretary of State John Kerry at Ben Gurion airport on Thursday, January 2, 2014. (photo credit: AP Photo/Brendan Smialowski, Pool)
January 4, 2014, 11:25 am
Palestinian red lines make chances of US-mediated settlement slim
With Abbas saying he can’t accept Israel as a Jewish state ‘as a Palestinian, as a people, as the PLO,’ Erekat eyes ICC lawsuit as path to statehood
By Avi Issacharoff
Jeff Halper of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions addresses the audience at the Zochrot conference, September 29, 2013 (courtesy/Zochrot/ Ele'onor Merza)
October 1, 2013, 5:12 pm
On the ruins of a village in Tel Aviv, Jews dream of Palestinian return
‘Merely addressing the return of Palestinians helps Jews overcome their phobia,’ one conference participant says
By Elhanan Miller
Labor Party members hold a press conference in Tel Aviv on Sunday, December 23 (photo credit: Flash90)
December 23, 2012, 9:57 pm
Labor leader calls for immediate renewal of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks
Shelly Yachimovich says two-state solution is the only viable alternative to a binational state
By Adiv Sterman
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