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In this Thursday, Dec. 5, 2019, photo, a wooden figure is displayed in the Church of the Nativity, traditionally believed by Christians to be the birthplace of Jesus Christ, in the West Bank city of Bethlehem. As visitors descend on Bethlehem this Christmas, they have the option of staying in restored centuries-old guesthouses, taking food tours of local markets, and perusing the dystopian art in and around a hotel designed by the British graffiti artist Banksy. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Palestinians in Bethlehem look beyond religious tourism

By Joseph Krauss and Mohammad Daraghmeh - Associated Press

Union Pacific sues to nullify old jobs pact with Texas town

By JOSH FUNK - Associated Press

In this Thursday, Feb. 25, 2016, file photo, American and Israeli Reform rabbis pray at the Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews can pray in Jerusalem's old city. Israel's recent detentions of Jewish-American critics entering the country is shining a spotlight on a growing gulf between the country's hard-line government and the predominantly liberal Jewish community in the U.S. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner, File)

Jews really shouldn’t vote Democrat

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., speaks to constituents in Wixom, Mich., Thursday, Aug. 15, 2019. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Rashida Tlaib, a troublemaker who’s scoring BDS points

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Trump Peace Plan Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Anticipating Trump’s ‘deal of the century’

By Daniel Pipes

In this Monday, Jan. 28, 2019, file photo, Samiha Jeheshat, displays a handmade embroidered Palestinian thobe at her showroom in the West Bank village of Idna, north of Hebron. The thobe is gaining prominence as a softer symbol of Palestinian nationalism, competing with the classic keffiyeh. Rashida Tlaib proudly wore her thobe to her historic swearing-in as the first Palestinian American member of Congress, inspiring women around the world to tweet photos of themselves in their ancestral robes. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

Iconic Palestinian robe fashions a new political symbol

By Isabel Debre - Associated Press

Marc Lamont Hill, a Temple University professor who appears regularly on CNN, speaks to a United Nations panel on Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2018. (Image: Screen grab of UNWatch's YouTube video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvzSv28z97o) ** FILE **

CNN urged to fire Marc Lamont Hill for condoning Palestinian force against Israel

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Muslim pilgrims circle around the Kaaba, the cubic building at the Grand Mosque, ahead of the annual Hajj pilgrimage, in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, early Friday, Aug. 17, 2018. The annual Islamic pilgrimage draws millions of visitors each year, making it the largest yearly gathering of people in the world. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

Saudi Arabia prepares for the annual Muslim hajj pilgrimage

By OMAR AKOUR - Associated Press

Palestinian protesters burn tires during a protest on the Gaza Strip's border with Israel, Monday, May 14, 2018. Thousands of Palestinians are protesting near Gaza's border with Israel, as Israel prepared for the festive inauguration of a new U.S. Embassy in contested Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

The Latest: Gaza Health Ministry releases latest death toll

Associated Press

Riders from the Samson Riders, an Israeli motorcycle club, arrive on a road leading to the new U.S. Embassy during a group ride from the old embassy in Tel Aviv, ahead of the official opening, in Jerusalem, Sunday, May 13, 2018. On Monday, the United States moves its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, the holy city at the explosive core of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and claimed by both sides as a capital. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

The Latest: OIC condemns US embassy move to Jerusalem

Associated Press

Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum gets rare Bowie knife

By J.B. SMITH - Associated Press

The Latest: Israel plans to follow US in exiting UN agency

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In this Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2017 photo, a bulldozer removes sand at Tel Es-Sakan hill, south of Gaza City. Palestinian and French archaeologists began excavating Gaza’s earliest archaeological site nearly 20 years ago; unearthing what they believe is a rare 4,500-year-old Bronze Age settlement. But over protests that grew recently, Gaza’s Hamas rulers have systematically destroyed the work since seizing power a decade ago, to make way for construction projects, and later military bases. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

In Gaza, Hamas levels an ancient treasure

By FARES AKRAM - Associated Press

In this Thursday, Dec. 15, 2016 photo, Chile's Palestino players , in red, in action during friendly soccer match with Palestinian national squad in the West Bank city of Hebron. For the past week, Palestinians in the West Bank have been enjoying a special Christmas time present: the first ever visit by Chilean soccer club Deportivo Palestino. The team, founded a century ago by Palestinian immigrants in Chile, is boosting the local sports scene also bringing a great deal of symbolism. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Legendary Chilean soccer club enjoys West Bank homecoming

By ISMA'IL KUSHKUSH - Associated Press

Jewish men look at the vintage photos of the British camp on a recreation of a semi-circular, corrugated iron hut that housed detainees, at the Cypriot military camp in capital Nicosia, on Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2016. Dozens of people born to Jewish refugees interned in Cyprus after World War II have marked the 70th anniversary of the start of such detentions at a ceremony on the east Mediterranean island. A memorial commemorating the event was unveiled at a Cypriot army camp that formerly housed a British military hospital where hundreds of Jewish infants were born. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

70 years on, Jewish survivors detained in Cyprus remembered

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS - Associated Press

Illustration on the continuing hoax of Palestinian land claims by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

ABRAHAM COOPER, YITZCHOK ADLERSTEIN: Map distorts Jewish, Arab land claims

By Abraham Cooper and Yitzchok Adlerstein

Illustration on the third intifada and the aims of Islamists against Israel by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

LOUIS RENE BERES: Murder as politics in Israel

By Louis Rene Beres