Roughly half, or 48 percent, of Israeli Jews said they agree or strongly agree with the statement that Arabs should be expelled or transferred from Israel, where they make up 19 percent of the population of 8.4 million.
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Along with the Jaffa assailant, three other Palestinians in Tuesday’s assaults killed by Israeli forces.
Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld tweeted that one person was slain and 10 were taken to the hospital after the attack along the Mediterranean Sea.
Analysts say the wave of violence is being driven by the frustration many Palestinians feel at the Israeli occupation and the lack of hope in the absence of a peace process.
Most Israelis are unconvinced by right-wing claims that expansion of West Bank settlements bolsters the Jewish state’s security, according to a survey by a U.S. institute published on Tuesday.
Press TV has conducted an interview with Paul Larudee, co-founder of the Free Palestine Movement from San Francisco, and Richard Millet, journalist and political commentator from London, to discuss the continuous Israeli atrocities against the Palestinian people.
Biden “condemned in the strongest possible terms the brutal attack which occurred in Jaffa”, his office said. “(Biden) expressed sorrow at the tragic loss of American life”.
In other attacks Tuesday, a Palestinian opened fire at police officers near Jerusalem’s Old City in the late afternoon, about a half hour before Biden arrived in Israel, wounding an officer before fleeing the scene. He argues that Israel has become the least safe place in the world for Jews, because the Tel Aviv regime’s policies are promoting insecurity and violence in the occupied lands of Palestine. The suspect was shot and killed by police after wounding six others.
If Israelis could vote in the American elections, they would want either a President Hillary Clinton or a President Donald Trump, according to findings from the Israeli Democracy Institute and Tel Aviv University’s monthly Peace Index poll, released on Sunday.
Earlier in the day, a Palestinian woman in her 50s who tried to stab Israeli security forces was shot and killed by officers, also in Jerusalem’s Old City, police said.
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This group was described as “in touch with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, and receives funding and instructions from it”.
