Common Grounds

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• Gulf normalization isn’t about fearing Iran, it’s about embracing Israel

  
  December 17, 2020 11:25

  ource: The Times of Israel

  https://www.timesofisrael.com/gulf-normalization-isnt-about-fearing-iran-its-about-embracing-israel/?utm_source=The+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=daily-edition-2020-12-16&utm_medium=email

   

  By   HAVIV RETTIG GUR

  Published December 16, 2020

   

  An off-the-record conversation between Emirati and Israeli officials reveals a deeper impulse for forging ties than the immediate benefits each country has won for itself

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• Opinion | This Is What Real Mideast Peace Looks Like

  
  December 18, 2020 12:48

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-this-is-what-real-mideast-peace-looks-like-1.9369064?lts=1608250989243

   

  By Avi Shilon

  Published December 13, 2020

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• With the Nation-State Law, Israel’s religious right is deciding who is a Jew

  
  December 22, 2020 14:48

  Source: +972 Magazine

  https://www.972mag.com/nation-state-law-judaism-religious-right/

   

  By Etan Nechin

  Published December 20, 2020

   

  Israel's Nation-State Law does not see Judaism as a diverse religion, but as an identity that guarantees supremacy over other people — including other Jews.

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• Netanyahu’s two Israels

  
  December 25, 2020 12:29

  Source: The Times of Israel

  https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/netanyahus-two-israels/?utm_source=The+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=daily-edition-2020-12-24&utm_medium=email

   

  By Yossi Klein Halevi

  Published December 24, 2020

   

  He is our most talented leader and our most destructive politician, bringing unprecedented agreements with Arab countries and scorched earth in our governance

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• It works: 0 deaths, only 4 severe cases among 523,000 fully vaccinated Israelis

  
  February 12, 2021 14:22

  Source: The Times of Israel

  https://www.timesofisrael.com/hmo-sees-only-544-covid-infections-among-523000-fully-vaccinated-israelis/?utm_source=Breaking+News&utm_campaign=breaking-news-2021-02-12-2478097&utm_medium=email

   

  By NATHAN JEFFAY

  Published 11 February, 2021

   

  HMO data a week after 2nd dose shows 93% effectiveness, ‘unequivocally’ proving vaccine’s success and leaving ‘no doubt’ it’s saved many Israeli lives, says Maccabi official

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• Palestinian Evangelicals in Confrontation with Christian Zionism

  
  February 12, 2021 14:35

  Source: Washington Report on Middle East Affairs

  https://www.wrmea.org/israel-palestine/palestinian-evangelicals-in-confrontation-with-christian-zionism.html

   

  Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, March/April 2021, pp. 30-31

   

  Christianity and the Middle East

   

  By REV. ALEX AWAD

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• Lucky for Fox Trump No Longer President

  
  March 26, 2021 12:01

  Source: NRC Amerika

  nrc.nl/amerika

   

  By Bas Blokker

  Published March 23, 2021

   

  Translated and edited by Abraham A. van Kempen

   

  Good afternoon,

   

  Fascinating to see how the roles have simply turned. A Democratic government keeps the press away from sheltering migrant children, and a Republican governor worried about a corona outbreak in the shelter.

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• A Book Review on the Topic of Christian Nationalism

  
  March 25, 2021 13:50

  Source: Gospel in Life

  https://quarterly.gospelinlife.com/book-review-on-the-topic-of-christian-nationalism/

   

  By Timothy Keller

   

  Tim Keller reviews Samuel L. Perry and Andrew Whitehead's book Taking America Back for God: Christian Nationalism in the United States (Oxford, 2020)

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• The Evangelical Pope – Children the Center of Christianity

  
  March 29, 2021 11:18

  Living Words from John Paul II

  Edited by Abraham A. van Kempen

   

  Published Sunday, March 28, 2021

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• The ICC probe into Palestine: where is the EU?

  
  March 30, 2021 12:35

  Source: EUobserver

  https://euobserver.com/opinion/151359

   

  By RASMUS ALENIUS BOSERUP

  Published March 30, 2021

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