Common Grounds

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• Israeli Arab City Bounced Back From Deadly Flareup, but Residents Fear Further Violence

  
  December 07, 2021 14:19

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-arab-city-bounced-back-from-deadly-flareup-but-residents-fear-further-violence-1.10439694?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=daily-brief&utm_content=8a994565d9

   

  By Jack Khoury

  Published December 4, 2021

   

  After days of violent attacks and clashes, the Umm al-Fahm residents are still on edge

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• Analysis | Israel’s Hysterical Response to Amnesty’s ‘Apartheid’ Report

  
  February 03, 2022 15:28

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.HIGHLIGHT-hysterical-response-to-amnesty-s-apartheid-report-is-a-typical-hasbara-fail-1.10581770

   

  By Anshel Pfeffer

  Published February 1, 2022

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• UN envoy warns of risk of new Israel-Palestinian violence

  
  December 03, 2021 11:59

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/un-envoy-warns-of-risk-of-new-israel-palestinian-violence-1.10430090

   

  The Associated Press

  Published December 1, 2021

   

  Tor Wennesland says parties must calm tensions, reduce violence across the Palestinian territories, avoid unilateral steps including new Israeli settlement building and solidify the May cease-fire

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• Do China and Russia want to replace the US as mediators in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?

  
  December 02, 2021 14:03

  Source: Atlantic Council

  https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/menasource/do-china-and-russia-want-to-replace-the-us-as-mediators-in-the-israeli-palestinian-conflict/

   

  By Richard LeBaron, Mohamed Bin Huwaidin, Daniel Rakov, Jonathan Fulton, and Joze Pelayo

  Published May 21, 2021

   

  This article is part of a strategic collaboration launched by the Atlantic Council (Washington, DC), the Emirates Policy Center (Abu Dhabi), and the Institute for National Security Studies (Tel Aviv). The authors are associated with the initiative’s Working Group on Chinese and Russian Power Projection in the Middle East. The views expressed by the authors are theirs and not their institutions’.

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• Our Washington Watch | Is What's Good for America, Good for Israel?

  
  November 26, 2021 10:42

  Source: NRC.NL/AMERIKA

  nrc.nl/america

   

  By Merijn de Waal

  Published November 23, 2021

   

  Amsterdam | Biden opts for continuity and bipartisanship in his choice of a central banker as the battle over his ambitious Build Back Better bill moves to the Senate in the coming weeks.

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• Anti-Zionist Jews are ‘Jews in name only’ and ‘more dangerous than external antisemitic threat’ — Chicago Reform rabbi

  
  November 30, 2021 13:58

  Source: Mondoweiss

  https://mondoweiss.net/2021/11/anti-zionist-jews-are-jews-in-name-only-and-more-dangerous-than-external-antisemitic-threat-chicago-reform-rabbi/

   

  By PHILIP WEISS 

  Published November 26, 2021

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• Ultra-Orthodox Aliyah to Israel Is Breaking Records. Here's Why

  
  November 30, 2021 14:26

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-ultra-orthodox-aliyah-to-israel-is-breaking-records-here-s-why-1.10427636

   

  By Judy Maltz

  Published November 30, 2021

   

  For decades, Haredim in the Diaspora rejected the notion of immigrating to Israel. No more. Now, ultra-Orthodox American Jews see themselves as ‘the next great frontier in aliyah’ and are moving to Israel in increasing numbers

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• These Jewish Migrants Survived Pogroms, Riots and Famine. Then They Were Faced With Zionist Cruelty

  
  November 30, 2021 14:48

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/.premium.MAGAZINE-the-zionist-selection-the-movement-rejected-jewish-migrants-deemed-too-weak-or-sick-1.10422540?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=daily-brief&utm_content=829f0ff655

   

  By Ofer Aderet

  Published November 30, 2021

   

  A century ago Zionist leaders strove to keep ‘weak people’ from immigrating. 'It is one of the most controversial disputes in the history of the Zionist movement'

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• If we must talk about Rabin – let us talk about the right of return

  
  November 09, 2021 16:19

  Source: Mondoweiss

  https://mondoweiss.net/2021/11/if-we-must-talk-about-rabin-let-us-talk-about-the-right-of-return/

   

  By YAARA BENGER ALALUF 

  Published November 1, 2021

   

  Although remembered as a peacemaker, Yitzhak Rabin was one of the key perpetrators of Israel's ethnic cleansing policy.

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• Opinion | The World May Have Given Up on Two States, but It Still Cares About the Occupation

  
  November 09, 2021 16:09

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-the-world-may-have-given-up-on-two-states-but-it-still-cares-about-the-occupation-1.10347756

   

  By Mickey Gitzin

  Published November 2, 2021

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