Israeli police raid Palestinian bookstores in east Jerusalem, drawing international concern

Israeli police raided two branches of a landmark bookstore in east Jerusalem on Sunday night, confiscating several dozen books and detaining two of the owners overnight. According to Imad Muna, one of the Educational Bookshop’s proprietors, officers claimed the raid targeted material that incites violence, though he dismissed the allegations as baseless. According to Haaretz, […]

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Netanyahu endorses voluntary migration of Gaza Palestinians: ‘A remarkable idea’

Benjamin Netanyahu endorsed the idea of Gaza Palestinians choosing to leave the territory temporarily, a toned-down version of the proposal President Donald Trump had pushed in a meeting with the Israeli prime minister one day earlier. Netanyahu’s remarks came shortly after the White House walked back Trump’s dramatic pledges to permanently relocate the entire population […]

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‘Unfathomably horrific’ to ‘major step towards a real peace’: US Jewish groups respond to Trump’s Gaza comments

Reactions from partisan American Jewish groups to President Donald Trump’s proposals for Gaza — that “all” Palestinians leave and the United States “take over” the territory — began flowing in just as soon as their leaders picked their jaws up off the floor on Tuesday night. The proposals — the latter of which was reportedly […]

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Meeting with Netanyahu, Trump doubles down on relocating ‘all’ Palestinians from Gaza

President Donald Trump doubled down on his controversial efforts to relocate Palestinians from Gaza, telling reporters that he would hope to resettle most if not all in neighboring countries, perhaps permanently. Trump made the comments at the start of a White House meeting on Tuesday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Trump was less equivocal […]

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