Common Grounds

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• Are Modern Prophets NEVER Wrong?

  
  February 15, 2021 12:23

  By: Abraham A. van Kempen, Editor

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• Noam Chomsky: Solidarity movements key to changing US Middle East policy

  
  February 25, 2021 15:05

  Source: +972 Magazine

  https://www.972mag.com/noam-chomsky-middle-east-israel/

   

  By Lilach Ben David 

  Published February 17, 2021

   

  From nuclear disarmament to Palestinian rights, Noam Chomsky discusses the need to disrupt authoritarian alliances and an entrenching 'Greater Israel.'

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• 10-20 American mouthpieces for Israeli government had unrivaled access to Obama White House — Rhodes

  
  February 26, 2021 12:20

  Source: Mondoweiss

  https://mondoweiss.net/2021/02/10-20-american-mouthpieces-for-israeli-government-had-unrivaled-access-to-obama-white-house-rhodes/

   

  BY PHILIP WEISS  

  Published February 24, 2021

   

  White House officials have to go to the Israel lobby AIPAC conference, but if they meet with Arab-Americans 'you can get into trouble,' former deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes says.

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• Exultant Crowds Gather for Pope's Erbil Mass, Despite Coronavirus Concerns

  
  March 08, 2021 22:05

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/iraq/exultant-crowds-gather-for-pope-s-erbil-mass-despite-coronavirus-concerns-1.9598261?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=haaretz-news&utm_content=4b140a06ac

   

  Reuters

  Published March 7, 2021

   

  The Mass in the autonomous Kurdish region is the pope's first engagement in his visit to Iraq, and local Christians have been eagerly awaiting it: 'We hope that he brings peace to Iraq and social harmony and an end to wars'

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• Opinion | ‘Dead Goyim Leg’: NBC's 'Antisemitic' TV Clip Is More Accurate Than We’d Like to Admit

  
  March 08, 2021 21:57

  Source Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-dead-goyim-leg-antisemitic-tv-clip-more-accurate-than-we-d-like-to-admit-1.9597514?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=haaretz-news&utm_content=4b140a06ac

   

  By Robby Berman

  Published March 3, 2012

   

  The outrage over the portrayal of an ultra-Orthodox family refusing a transplant from a non-Jew is hollow when so many Orthodox Jews hold racist attitudes towards gentiles and refuse to donate organs to them

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• Opinion | Picture Israeli Labor Party Leader Michaeli in Prison

  
  March 08, 2021 22:29

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-picture-israeli-labor-party-leader-michaeli-in-prison-1.9596277?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=breaking-news&utm_content=a89eb682c1

   

  By Gideon Levy

  Published March 6, 2021

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• Intense preparations before pontiff meets Iraqi ayatollah

  
  March 08, 2021 22:40

  Source: CHRON

  https://www.chron.com/news/article/Intense-preparation-paves-way-for-pontiff-to-meet-15995920.php

   

  By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and SAMYA KULLAB, Associated Press

  Published March 3, 2021

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• Pope gives Iraqis hope

  
  March 11, 2021 17:25

  Source: Arab News

  https://www.arabnews.com/node/1822111

   

  By Daoud Kuttab

  Published March 8, 2021

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• How Christian Evangelical Money and Biblical Prophecy Are Driving Immigration to Israel

  
  March 09, 2021 20:02

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.HIGHLIGHT-how-christian-evangelical-money-is-driving-immigration-to-israel-1.9590223?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=haaretz-news&utm_content=96ea17f883

   

  By Judy Maltz and Allison Kaplan Sommer

  Published March 8,2021

   

  Once the proud preserve of Jewish Diaspora organizations, aliyah funding is increasingly being ‘outsourced’ to deeply devout Christian groups with equally deep pockets and their own motives to encourage the ingathering of the exiles

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• Why Israel fears the ICC war crimes investigation

  
  March 04, 2021 20:02

  Source: Guardian

  https://www.theguardian.com/law/2021/mar/03/israeli-officials-start-to-feel-the-impact-of-icc-investigation

   

  By Peter Beaumont

  Published March 3, 2021

   

  Analysis: officials recognise there is a real risk of prosecution over the deadly 2014 conflict

   

  Report: ICC opens investigation into war crimes in Palestinian territories

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