Common Grounds

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• Evangelical support for Israel is neither permanent nor inevitable

  
  July 20, 2021 23:44

  Source: The Conversation

  https://theconversation.com/evangelical-support-for-israel-is-neither-permanent-nor-inevitable-164209

   

  Published July 19, 2021

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• Palestine’s Struggle to Create Its Unique Narrative

  
  July 20, 2021 23:26

  Source: Governing

  https://www.governing.com/context/palestines-struggle-to-create-its-unique-narrative

   

  By Clay S. Jenkinson

  Published July 20, 2021

   

  America has had resounding success in telling the story of its birth and rise as a nation. So too has Israel during the 20th century. Now, Palestine must do the same if it wants to succeed, says Middle East scholar Rashid Khalidi.

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• The America that Israel and Palestine Need

  
  July 20, 2021 11:38

  Source: Project Syndicate

  https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/israel-palestine-conflict-needs-more-balanced-us-approach-by-mohamed-elbaradei-2021-07

   

  By MOHAMED ELBARADEI

  Published July 16, 2021

   

  Joe Biden promised to make democracy and human rights central to US foreign policy. But that means not insisting on Israel’s right to defend itself without mentioning its expansion of settlements in occupied Palestinian territory, its policy of discrimination, and its denial of the Palestinians’ right to an independent state.

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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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• Ilhan Omar’s antisemitism poses a moment of reckoning for Democrats

  
  July 16, 2021 10:51

  Source: The Times of Israel

  https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/ilhan-omars-antisemitism-poses-a-moment-of-reckoning-for-democrats/?utm_source=The+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=daily-edition-2021-07-15&utm_medium=email

   

  By John Hagee

  Published July 15, 2021

   

  Just as we have called out fellow Conservatives, Nancy Pelosi must choose between real leadership or shameful capitulation to the enemies of the Jewish people

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• Genocide, apartheid? A poll Israel cannot allow itself to ignore

  
  July 16, 2021 10:47

  Source: The Times of Israel

  https://www.timesofisrael.com/genocide-apartheid-a-poll-israel-cannot-allow-itself-to-ignore/?utm_source=The+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=daily-edition-2021-07-15&utm_medium=email

   

  By DAVID HOROVITZ

  Published July 15, 2021

   

  Nobody who knows the reality in Israel could possibly believe it is committing genocide against the Palestinians. Yet 22% of US Jews apparently do. Alarm bells should be ringing

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• Opinion | Should Jews Fear Fanatically pro-Israel, Philosemitic U.S. Evangelicals?

  
  July 16, 2021 10:42

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-should-jews-fear-fanatically-pro-israel-philosemitic-u-s-evangelicals-1.9911159

   

  By Judah Isseroff

  Published June 16, 2021

   

  For Jews, what is more offensive – and more threatening? Today’s philosemitic Evangelicals, some with their venomous takes on Israel's new government, or yesteryear’s Christian theological antisemitism?

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• Why does everyone want Jerusalem? CNN investigates in a new docuseries

  
  July 15, 2021 11:16

  Source: The Forward

  https://forward.com/culture/472875/jerusalem-city-of-faith-and-fury-cnn-docuseries-mcgregor-palestinian/?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=campaign_2522576

   

  By PJ Grisar

  Published July 13, 2021 

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• An American Kingdom

  
  July 14, 2021 13:26

  Source: The Washington Post

  https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/07/11/mercy-culture-church/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most&carta-url=https://s2.washingtonpost.com/car-ln-tr/3420f98/60ec673c9d2fda8060034242/597682b5ae7e8a6816d78e2c/9/70/60ec673c9d2fda8060034242

   

  By Stephanie McCrummen

  Published July 11, 2021

   

  A new and rapidly growing Christian movement is openly political, wants a nation under God’s authority, and is central to Donald Trump’s GOP

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• Opinion | The Stolen Childhood of Palestinian Kids

  
  July 13, 2021 15:10

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-the-stolen-childhood-of-palestinian-kids-1.9961420

   

  By Galia Oz

  Published July 5, 2021

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