Common Grounds

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• Will a Holy Land Confederation Help Resolve the Long Simmering Palestinian-Israeli Dispute?

  
  February 17, 2022 15:38

  Source: InDepthNews

  https://www.indepthnews.net/index.php/the-world/middle-east/5087-will-a-holy-land-confederation-help-resolve-the-long-simmering-palestinian-israeli-dispute

   

  By Thalif Deen

  Published February 16, 2022

   

  Only a political solution will end the “senseless and costly cycles of violence” between Israelis and Palestinians, UN Middle East envoy Tor Wennesland said at a briefing to the Security Council in 2021.

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• Guterres lauds efforts of Israeli-Palestinian confederation plan authors

  
  February 17, 2022 14:40

  Source: Jerusalem Post

  https://www.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/article-696282

   

  By TOVAH LAZAROFF
  Published February 12, 2022

   

  The UN Secretary General has been a strong advocate of a two-state resolution to the conflict and reaffirmed that stance at a recent meeting.

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• Opinion | We've Obsessed Over Our Past With No Clear Future in Sight

  
  February 10, 2022 14:45

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-we-ve-obsessed-over-our-past-with-no-clear-future-in-sight-1.10593703

   

  By Carolina Landsmann

  Published February 6, 2022

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• Blinken Calls Abbas to Talk U.S.-Palestinian Relations, Also Speaks With Israel's Lapid

  
  February 10, 2022 13:15

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/.premium-blinken-holds-rare-phone-call-with-abbas-about-u-s-palestinian-relations-1.10581012

   

  By Ben Samuels and Jonathan Lis

  Published February 1, 2022

   

  The rare phone call to the Palestinian president comes after recent increased direct contacts between Israeli and Palestinian leaders

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• Opinion | Josh Mandel Has Joined the Trumpist Christians-First Far Right. Will He Drag GOP Jews With Him?

  
  February 07, 2022 10:57

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-josh-mandel-joins-the-trumpist-christians-first-far-right-will-gop-jews-follow-1.10390411

   

  By Jonathan S. Tobin

  Published November 17, 2021

   

  By embracing Trumpist extremists like Mike Flynn and Marjorie Taylor-Greene pushing an exclusively Christian America, Josh Mandel isn’t forging a coalition with the far right, he's joining it. What does that mean for U.S. Jews?

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• Opinion | How Jews Become Christian Nationalists: The Case of Josh Mandel

  
  February 07, 2022 10:55

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium.HIGHLIGHT-how-jews-become-christian-nationalists-the-case-of-josh-mandel-1.10396679

   

  By Avraham Bronstein

  Published November 18, 2021

   

  If Donald Trump can be a Christian nationalist, so can Josh Mandel, the longtime nativist leading Ohio's GOP Senate primaries

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• Opinion | Tucker Carlson’s anti-Soros Crusade Is a Clear Danger for American Jews

  
  February 07, 2022 10:55

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium.HIGHLIGHT-tucker-carlson-s-anti-soros-crusade-is-a-clear-danger-for-american-jews-1.10576543?lts=1644149939899

   

  By Joshua Shanes

  Published January 30, 2022

   

  Fox News marked Holocaust Remembrance Day with a Tucker Carlson 'Special' glorifying Hungary’s white Christian nationalism and accusing Holocaust survivor George Soros of waging a 'secret war' on Western civilization. There should have been far more outrage

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• Secular democracy and the future of Palestine

  
  February 08, 2022 15:00

  Source: Mondoweiss

  https://mondoweiss.net/2022/01/secular-democracy-and-the-future-of-palestine/

   

  BY HAIDAR EID

  Published January 28, 2022

   

  It is an established fact that Israel is an apartheid state. The questions then are - how to dismantle it and what comes next?

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• Opinion | The Culture of the Occupation Is a Hothouse for Inhumanity

  
  February 08, 2022 15:07

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-the-culture-of-the-occupation-is-a-hothouse-for-inhumanity-1.10583688

   

  By Zvi Bar'el

  Published February 2, 2022

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• 'Holy Land Confederation': Oslo Accords Architect Presents New Peace Plan

  
  February 10, 2022 11:36

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.HIGHLIGHT-holy-land-confederation-oslo-accords-architect-presents-new-peace-plan-1.10601495?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=haaretz-news&utm_content=15ea3dbd92

   

  By Allison Kaplan Sommer

  Published February 9, 2022

   

  Veteran Israeli peace negotiator Yossi Beilin and Palestinian attorney Hiba Husseini suggest the creation of a confederation, with people swaps involving settlers and refugees, as a way to revive the two state solution

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