Common Grounds


  • Making the Means, Methods and Mechanism for MANY to Move Mountains


    November 17, 2023 10:33


    September 04, 2015

    By: Abraham A. van Kempen, Editor


    Source: The Times of Israel
    https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/to-dignify-or-to-destroy/


    Published September 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.

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  • Can we afford not to have reconciliation?


    May 02, 2017 12:40

    Source: HuffPost

     

    By Safi Kaskas, Contributor

    Co-author of “The Qur’an, A Contemporary Understanding, with References to the Bible”

    Published 05/01/2017 

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/59075325e4b084f59b49fb26

     

    We live in dangerous times in which the world’s Christians and Muslims are being pitted against each other.

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  • Video


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  • Who carries the flag for Palestinian liberation?


    July 07, 2017 12:01

    Source: JEWS FOR JUSTICE FOR PALESTINIANS

    http://jfjfp.com/?p=93445

     

    By Perry Cammack, Nathan Brown, Marwan Muasher,  Carnegie  Endowment.org

    June 2017

     

    Revitalising Palestinian Nationalism

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  • Jordan king tells Arab summit no peace in region without Palestinian state


    March 29, 2017 18:53

    Source: The Times of Israel, March 29, 2017, 4:54 pm 

     

    By: KARIN LAUB AND MOHAMMED DARAGHMEH

     

    Leaders of 21 nations expected to reaffirm 2002 peace plan offering normalization with Israel after deal with Ramallah

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  • The Great Entanglement


    July 07, 2017 12:42

    Source: JEWS FOR JUSTICE FOR PALESTINIANS

    http://jfjfp.com/?p=93385

     

    By Gershom Gorenberg, American Prospect
    June 26, 2017

     

    Settlements: The Real Story


    Fifty years after the Six-Day War, a mistaken account of how settlement began still plagues Israeli politics.

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  • Audiocast - No More Taking Sides


    November 18, 2014 14:48

    Robi Damelin lost her son David to a Palestinian sniper. Ali Abu Awwad lost his older brother Yousef to an Israeli soldier.

     

    No More Taking Sides  - Radio podcast

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  • Need for a coalition for peace


    November 28, 2014 10:48

    By: Daoud Kuttab

     

    After 51 horrible days, the people of Gaza, Israel and the world breathed a sigh of relief when a ceasefire agreement was announced by the Palestinian president on August 26.

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  • Co-existence is still the guiding star


    November 28, 2014 10:48

    By: Yifat Kariv

     

    Yifat Kariv is a member of Knesset with the Yesh Atid party. She heads parliamentary committees on Holocaust survivors, promotion of teens in Israel, young adult leadership and Israel-India relations. She lives in Hod Hasharon and is the mother of four children.

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  • Videocast - When a Jewish Kibbutz Neighbors an Arab Village


    November 18, 2014 14:53

    An OnBeing.org VideoCast hostd by Krista Tippett

     

    The relationship between Arabs and Jews in Israel has been strained by failed peace agreements, suicide bombings, and the construction of a separation wall — all which have fostered fear and anger on both sides - video

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