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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: Haaretz

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.HIGHLIGHT-israel-at-73-alive-kicking-and-ailing-1.9711973?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=haaretz-news&utm_content=c1e2a2f904&lts=1618451607513

By Alon Pinkas

Published April 14, 2021

Israel is descending into quasi-authoritarianism, led by a prime minister who is facing a corruption trial and spewing incendiary rhetoric. But not all is bleak

Source: Haaretz

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.HIGHLIGHT.MAGAZINE-the-jewish-women-who-posed-an-existential-threat-to-israel-by-marrying-arab-men-1.9712411?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=daily-brief&utm_content=4c9d6c5409&lts=1618499688158

By Ofer Aderet

Published April 14, 2021

Hundreds of Jewish women married Arab men in the Mandate period. They were branded enemies of Israel, and to this day their families find it hard to talk about them. No wonder, then, that these stories were buried in the archives and are only now coming to light

Source: Mondoweiss

https://mondoweiss.net/2016/10/why-i-left-the-cult/

By AVIGAIL ABARBANEL 

Published October 8, 2016

                    All changed, changed utterly:
                    A terrible beauty is born.
                    –From Easter, 1916, by WB Yeats

Source: Haaretz

https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/.premium.HIGHLIGHT-they-re-israel-s-far-right-anti-arab-nationalists-but-don-t-call-them-nazis-1.9694208?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=weekend&utm_content=fa566b83bc

By Anshel Pfeffer

Published April 8, 2021

On the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, far right leader Bezalel Smotrich threatened Palestinian citizens of Israel with ethnic cleansing. Calling him a Nazi is too easy a way out of the real, pressing problem his camp poses for Israel and Judaism

Source: Tablet

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/three-state-solution-benjamin-kerstein-peace-israel-palestine

By BENJAMIN KERSTEIN

Published March 23, 2021

The two-state solution has been dead for decades. A one-state solution frightens Israelis and Palestinians alike. Is three the magic number for peace?

Source: Jewish Voice for Peace

https://jfjfp.com/the-us-media-is-touting-israels-covid-recovery-but-occupied-palestinians-are-left-out/

Published April 12, 2021

Yara M Asi reports in The Guardian Fri 9 Apr 2021

Instead of vaccinating Palestinians, Benjamin Netanyahu tried to send thousands of doses around the world as rewards to countries that moved their embassies to Jerusalem

Living Words from John Paul II

Edited by Abraham A. van Kempen

Published Sunday, April 11, 2021

Source: Religion News Service

https://religionnews.com/2021/04/06/william-barber-preaches-at-easter-vigil-service-acknowledging-christian-palestinians/

By Daoud Kuttab

Published April 6, 2021

Barber’s appearance served to recognize Christians in the Palestinian liberation movement, which some American evangelicals paint as an apocalyptic conflict between Christians and Muslims.

Source: Middle East Eye

https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israel-losing-fight-obscure-its-apartheid-character

By Jonathan Cook

Published January 14, 2021

New report by rights group B'Tselem will make it harder to smear Israel's critics as antisemites for arguing that Israel is a racist state