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By: Abraham A. van Kempen, Editor

Source: The Times of Israel

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/to-dignify-or-to-destroy/

Published SEP 3, 2018

Become part of what might become the biggest letter writing campaign in the history of mankind. Anyone, everywhere may write a letter, personally or anonymously, to a designated world leader of choice in just three clicks. Immediately thereafter, the letter is published on www.buildingthebridge.eu and, simultaneously, it is flashed throughout cyberspace.

Source: Middle East Eye

https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/how-evangelical-christians-risk-setting-middle-east-fire

By Jonathan Cook

Published 8 July 2019

TB Joshua is the latest in a wave of pro-Zionist preachers taking an active interest in Israel – and Palestinians will pay the price

Source: Islam21

https://www.islam21c.com/opinion/zionism-has-truly-lost-the-debate/

By Ustadh Abu Haneefah Sohail

Published 6 June 2019

Judaism is a great and ancient religion which has endured enslavement by the Pharoahs, Pogroms by the Tsars, and the Holocaust by the Nazis. The Jewish people have come through these cataclysmic events and flourished as influential minorities in different countries, cultures and continents. Zionism on the other hand, is a modern, colonial-settler political ideology which seeks to create and expand an apartheid state, where one ethnic group is privileged over another, while the others are permanently disenfranchised, dispossessed and subjected to endless military occupation. The two are completely separate, and often in complete opposition to each other. It is the strategy of the Zionist movement to weaponise respect of Judaism and collective resolve against anti-Semitism, as a cover for the crimes of Israel.

By: Abraham A. van Kempen

The Hague, The Netherlands

Is there any other way to take off but at full throttle? To eventually soar through the clouds, you’ll need all the torque you can get, maximum thrust to overcome resistance. That’s what it’s going to take to secure real and sustainable peace. In the past, those in command of the peace talks dare not take off at full throttle. The results: one deadlock after the other. Oslo, Ottawa, Shepherdstown, The Wye Plantation, Annapolis, Geneva, Madrid, Nicosia, Washington, D.C., London, Bonn, and Vienna have succeeded in producing stalemates often ending in standoffs with one foot in the stirrup, the other in the sand; and, recently, Bahrain.

By Sam Bahour

Published on Linkedin

https://medium.com/@sbahour/an-open-letter-to-my-fellow-american-civil-servant-jared-kushner-e0207cb4b91a

27 June 2019

From one American to another: Get out of the car. Go home.

Source: Carnegie Europe

https://carnegieeurope.eu/strategiceurope/79390

By Khalil Shikaki

Published June 27, 2019

This blog is part of EU-LISTCO, an innovative and timely project that investigates the challenges facing Europe’s foreign policy. A consortium of fourteen leading research institutions and universities aims to identify risks connected to areas of limited statehood and contested orders—and the EU’s ability to respond.

Source: Middle East Eye

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/jerusalem-old-city-how-palestinian-past-being-erased-deal-century?fbclid=IwAR37cmgiMKOiBTAkG6JB7FdNfN3i8BC6CyMRkf0y2W7IUuW4mFCVfwubLdY

By Jonathan Cook
Published 20 June 2019

The Israeli occupation has left its physical and political mark within the historic walls, with most Palestinians barred from visiting Al-Aqsa

Source: Tikkun

https://www.tikkun.org/selling-israel-biblically?fbclid=IwAR3lwj2x3AFuzGzJv7vtWiBJ0sIRUvBdDGeKE9ranXie9yrGfXHSomm-Vdk

By M. Reza Behnam

Published June 20, 2019

Christian Zionism’s Political Power

Geopolitical, economic, energy, and military determinants have shaped U.S. Middle East policy since the Second World War. No less significant, however, is the powerful influence of Christian Zionism on the formation of America’s Israel-first policy. With over 40 million adherents, it has become a powerful force in shaping that policy, especially today.

Source: Antiwar.com

https://original.antiwar.com/utley/2019/06/16/pompeo-end-times-and-false-flag-war-on-iran/

By Jon Basil Utley 

Published June 17, 2019

A main issue with wars, indeed Sun Tzu’s first admonition, is that war should be a last resort, not the first as Washington seems to favor. Because one never knows where wars lead once they start. The fear is that Iran, once the United States attacks it, will be faced with the Hobson’s choice – either fire its missiles, it’s main non-obsolete weapon, or risk the U.S. destroying them. Firing them risks conflagration of much of the Persian Gulf oil shipping infrastructure. New technology in cheap mines and drones might also close the Gulf to shipping. This would devastate the world economy much of which depends upon the oil.

Source: Haaretz

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-neither-israel-s-nor-germany-s-slide-into-fascism-was-accidental-1.7338787

By Yoav Rinon 

Published Jun 06, 2019

The Zionist attempt to create a secular-national movement based on Jewish identity could not help but have a religious messianic component. From there it was inevitable that it would turn racist