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Items by Nidal Mohammad Watad
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Bennett is sending clear messages to the Palestinians
As he made clear in his interviews yesterday with five Israeli newspapers, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett places no importance on the Palestinian Authority and its leaders. Nor, in fact, does he give any importance to meetings between his ministers, no matter how senior, and PA officials, such as that...
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Kafr Qasem is a bleeding wound as Palestinians continue to resist the occupation
Members on all sides of the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, both right and left, had no choice but to vote against a proposed law which Aida Touma-Suleiman MK submitted last Wednesday for the state to recognise publicly its responsibility for the October 1956 Kafr Qasem massacre. The massacre is...
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Freefalling into Bennett’s, and Israel’s, lap
The Bennett-Sisi summit would not have received the attention it did in the Israeli media, on the eve of the Jewish Yom Kippur holiday last week, had it not been for the Egyptians. According to the Israeli press corps, the Egyptian officials worked hard to welcome Israeli Prime Minister...
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The renewal of Raed Salah’s detention: An example of the conditions suffered by Arab-Israelis
The Israeli court is scheduled to look into extending the detention of the head of the banned Islamic Movement, Sheikh Raed Salah, today. He was arrested on Tuesday morning in a large-scale raid by the police forces. This was done deliberately, as the police could have summoned Sheikh Salah,...
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A precedent that will be repeated in Jerusalem
The Israeli occupation will repeat the precedent of closing the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the prohibition of praying there, as was the case on Friday, and will turn it into a routine response in the future after every operation, not only in Al-Aqsa but also near it. This will occur...