Common Grounds

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• The Beatitudes in Tourism …

  
  August 03, 2020 11:39

  Living Words from John Paul II

  Edited by Abraham A. van Kempen

   

  Published Sunday, August 02, 2020

   

   

  Each week we let Saint Pope John Paul II share meaningful signposts to spark socio-economic resolves through justice and righteousness combined with mercy and compassion; in short, love.

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• The uncertain Israeli annexation plans in West Bank

  
  August 06, 2020 16:05

  Source: EVANGELICAL FOCUS

  https://evangelicalfocus.com/world/7395/the-uncertain-israeli-annexation-plans-in-west-bank

   

  By Jonatán Soriano

  Published 6 August 2020

   

  Many inside and outside Israel raised their voices against the plan. Israeli evangelicals “do not see as part of our call to make political statements of any kind”.

   

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• The Plagues of Nuclear Weapons, COVID-19, and Racism: Reflection and Action

  
  August 11, 2020 13:02

  Source: The National Council of Churches

  https://www.grnewsletters.com/archive/ncc_newsletter/NCC-Newsletter-The-Plagues-of-Nuclear-Weapons-COVID-19-and-Racism-Reflection-and-Action-784708305.html

   

  By Jim Winkler

  NCC Newsletter

  Published August 7, 2020

   

  Nuclear Weapons, War, and Racism: The Myth of Redemptive Violence

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• Palestinians should seek US Christians’ support

  
  August 13, 2020 13:06

  Source: Aeab News

  https://www.arabnews.com/node/1694791

   

  By Ray Hanania

  Published June 24, 2020

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• The salt of the sea, for the first time in Jaffa

  
  August 20, 2020 12:52

  Source: Mondoweiss

  https://mondoweiss.net/2020/08/the-salt-of-the-sea-for-the-first-time-in-jaffa/

   

  BY Dareen TATOUR  

  Published August 17, 2020

   

  Depriving people of the simplest right -- to see the sea -- is a crime of the Israeli occupation. An entire generation in Palestine grew up not knowing what the sea means.

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• Opinion / Pushing Palestinians Back to Armed Struggle

  
  August 20, 2020 13:42

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-pushing-palestinians-back-to-armed-struggle-1.9085548

   

  By Sam Bahour

   

  Israeli and American Jews would be well-advised to rethink where Trump and Netanyahu are taking them – and remember that we Palestinians are going nowhere

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• Can ‘Abraham’ Bring Peace to the Middle East?

  
  August 25, 2020 15:09

  Source: Christianity Today

  https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2020/august/israel-peace-plan-united-arab-emirates-uae-abraham-accord.html

   

  By JAYSON CASPER

  Published August 17, 2020 

   

  Christians in the Gulf hope historic UAE-Israel normalization might also lead to a deal with Palestinians.

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• How Israel wages its war on Palestinian history

  
  September 01, 2020 10:25

  Source: The National

  https://www.thenational.ae/opinion/comment/how-israel-wages-its-war-on-palestinian-history-1.1065932?fbclid=IwAR09QU4ELogWafPfEdVv_6_IJ9cfsfG1WLyNXXTEgGc9IXJ249pHXPWUJ14

   

  By Jonathan Cook

  Published August 20, 2020

   

  The state is using a variety of means to create a perception that its policies vis-a-vis the Palestinians have been driven by security concerns

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• How Israel-UAE deal obliterates the illusion of Arab unity

  
  September 01, 2020 10:32

  Source: Jews for Justice for Palestinians

  https://jfjfp.com/how-israel-uae-deal-obliterates-the-illusion-of-arab-unity/

   

  Published August 27, 2020

   

  Global solidarity with Palestinians, best expressed in the BDS movement, is crucial to the future of the Palestinian cause

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• Shhh! Don’t Tell Evangelical Supporters of Israel, but Abortion There Is Legal — and Often It’s Free

  
  September 07, 2020 12:44

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-shhh-don-t-tell-evangelical-supporters-of-israel-about-the-country-s-abortion-laws-1.7274968

   

  By Allison Kaplan Sommer

  Published 22.05.2019

   

  Neither religious conservatives nor liberal feminists are completely satisfied with the status quo in the Jewish state, but the current system allows some 40,000 women to have abortions annually

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