Common Grounds

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• How will pro-Israel Evangelicals react to the post-Bibi era?

  
  June 08, 2021 14:02

  Source: The Jerusalem Post

  https://www.jpost.com/opinion/how-will-pro-israel-evangelicals-react-to-the-post-bibi-era-670370

   

  By Joel C. Rosenberg

  Published June 7, 2021

   

  They don’t know Naftali Bennett or Yair Lapid, so there is no trust yet, but it can be developed

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• Top evangelical leader warns: Israel could lose our support if Netanyahu ousted

  
  June 09, 2021 12:31

  Source: The Times of Israel

  https://www.timesofisrael.com/top-evangelical-leader-warns-israel-could-lose-our-support-if-netanyahu-ousted/?utm_source=The+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=daily-edition-2021-06-08&utm_medium=email

   

  By TOI STAFF

  Published June 8, 2021

   

  Mike Evans says his 77 million followers will ‘go into the opposition’ with Netanyahu; decries coalition that seeks to replace PM as anti-Zionists who’ll surrender to radical Islam

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• ‘Change’ will not change Palestine-Israel situation

  
  June 08, 2021 14:38

  Source: Gulf Today

  https://www.gulftoday.ae/opinion/2021/06/06/change-will-not-change-palestine-israel-situation

   

  By Michael Jansen

  Published June 6, 2021

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• America, Human Rights, and Israel’s War on Palestine

  
  June 01, 2021 13:56

  Source: Project Syndicate

  https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/biden-must-uphold-palestinian-human-rights-in-israel-by-jeffrey-d-sachs-2021-05

   

  By JEFFREY D. SACHS

  Published May 25, 2021

   

  Human rights are human rights, and they are part of international law under the UN Charter. Whether the case is Xinjiang and the Uighurs, Myanmar and the Rohingya, or Israel and the Palestinian Arabs, the correct way to defend international law is through the United Nations, starting with an independent investigation under the auspices of the UN Human Rights Council.

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• Opinion | Damn Them All

  
  July 18, 2021 20:42

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-israel-should-have-treated-khalida-jarrar-with-humanity-1.10000031?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=haaretz-news&utm_content=389d7b7b0f&lts=1626374148433

   

  By Gideon Levy

  Published July 15, 2021

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• Opinion: Zionism cannot produce a just peace. Only external pressure can end the Israeli apartheid.

  
  May 25, 2021 15:34

  Source: The Washington Post

  https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/05/20/israel-gaza-war-zionism-apartheid-injustice-pressure/

   

  Opinion by Raphael Mimoun

  Published May 20, 2021 

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• Jews and Arabs Share Recent Ancestry

  
  May 24, 2021 12:01

  Source: Science

  https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2000/10/jews-and-arabs-share-recent-ancestry

   

  By Ann Gibbons

  Published October 30, 2000

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• Support for Israel among young US evangelical Christians drops sharply — survey

  
  May 25, 2021 16:12

  Source: The Times of Israel

  https://www.timesofisrael.com/support-for-israel-among-young-us-evangelicals-drops-sharply-survey/

   

  By JACOB MAGID

  Published May 25, 2021

   

  Since 2018, backing for Israel dropped from 75% to 33%; nearly half of evangelicals aged 18-29 say they favor establishment of Palestinian state, voted for Biden over Trump

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• U.S. CHRISTIANS CAN’T IGNORE ISRAEL’S ONGOING OCCUPATION OF PALESTINE

  
  May 31, 2021 12:10

  Source: Sojourners

  https://sojo.net/articles/us-christians-can-t-ignore-israel-s-ongoing-occupation-palestine

   

  By MAE ELISE CANNON, JOYCE AJLOUNY

  Published May 14, 2021

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• Biden, Palestine, and the buttressing of Christian Zionism

  
  June 01, 2021 13:36

  Source: Aljazeera

  https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/5/26/biden-palestine-and-the-buttressing-of-christian-zionism

   

  By Mimi Kirk

  Published May 26, 2021

   

  Biden’s position on Israel-Palestine does not constitute any real shift from that of Trump and thus similarly gratifies the desires of Christian Zionists.

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