Israel is to free a Palestinian detainee who survived a two-month hunger strike later Wednesday after holding him for a year without trial, the prison service said. Violence from Gaza after Israel’s pullout only fueled the skepticism over peace prospects.
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Ascherman heads a group called Rabbis for Human Rights, which for more than a decade has been accompanying Palestinian farmers to their olive groves during the harvest season, when attacks by extremist settlers typically spike. In such an impasse, “the only thing that preserves two states is independent action”, he said.
Such findings raise the unsettling question of whether Palestinian violence works. As always, we join our Muslim friends in hoping this is the darkness before the dawn.
The 37-acre (15 -hectare) site has been at the heart of the current round of Israeli-Palestinian violence. But when the violence subsided, residents in central Israel largely put the conflict out of mind, trying to enjoy the comforts of what is known as the Tel Aviv “bubble”.
Israel has begun lifting a few security measures in place over a wave of violence that raised fears of a full-scale Palestinian uprising, removing key roadblocks in annexed east Jerusalem, police said on Thursday.
Outside “Hitler 2”, whose owner declined to be interviewed, young Palestinians this week said they liked the shop and were eager to carry out attacks.
According to Palestinian media reports, the attacker was identified as Malek Talal Sharif, 25, from Hebron.
Jews are almost 80 percent of Israel’s population, and the Arab minority makes up about 20 percent. “Those who don’t attack aren’t attacked either”. Israel welcomed the plan but the idea was met by Palestinian criticism. Ever since its creation in 1948, Israel has believed in peaceful co-existence with Palestine.
But the presence of 500 Israeli settlers near the city centre, living behind barbed wire and watchtowers, with an army-patrolled buffer zone, has kept tensions high.
The American-born Oren supports moves such as halting settlement construction in West Bank areas that will likely be part of any future Palestinian state. A majority of Palestinians support a return to an armed intifada.
But the four are not necessarily being held in connection with the Duma attack, and Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon has said that there isn’t “sufficient evidence” to apprehend any suspects over the arson. A few half-dozen other Israeli cities have also seen attacks.
Israeli security officers were questioning the woman and confiscated the weapon.
“Look what’s become of us”, her granddaughter, Sagit Bracha Azenkot, told the Israeli daily Maariv.
Speaking to the United Nations in September, Abbas accused Israel of threatening Palestinian religious rights at the Temple Mount, a charge Israel vehemently denies. But such voices have been rare.
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Pavel Leiderman, 39, said the Palestinian goal was “attrition”. “They only want to defend their land”.
