Common Grounds

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• The new Palestinian year: A mixture of myths and hope

  
  February 22, 2022 15:35

  Source: Middle East Monitor

  https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20220219-the-new-palestinian-year-a-mixture-of-myths-and-hope/

   

  By Dr Mohammad Makram Balawi

  Published February 19, 2022

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• Doing Business with Apartheid: Why Africa Must Reject Israeli Colonialism

  
  February 22, 2022 15:29

  Source: Ramzy Baroud, Politics for the people

  http://www.ramzybaroud.net/doing-business-with-apartheid-why-africa-must-reject-israeli-colonialism/

   

  Published February 16, 2022

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• ‘Tantura’ Documentary Maintains Israel’s Defense of its Ethnic Cleansing

  
  February 22, 2022 15:18

  Source: Inside Arabia

  https://insidearabia.com/tantura-documentary-maintains-israels-defense-of-its-ethnic-cleansing/

   

  By Ramona Wadi

  Published February 14, 2022

   

  Israeli narratives of Tantura’s ethnic cleansing do not hold Israel accountable for its ongoing Nakba. Despite the information hitting Israeli society, the accounts themselves invalidate the Palestinian experience by defending the Zionist colonial project – this is also true of the latest documentary on the subject titled “Tantura”.

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• Will the Ukraine crisis affect the Palestinians?

  
  February 24, 2022 18:03

  Source: Middle East Monitor

  https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20220216-will-the-ukraine-crisis-affect-the-palestinians/

   

  By Nasser Nasser

  Published February 16, 2022

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• Gantz and VP Harris Meet, Discuss Iran, Ukraine, Palestinians

  
  February 24, 2022 21:54

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-gantz-and-vp-harris-meet-discuss-iran-ukraine-palestinians-1.10622006

   

  By Yaniv Kubovich

  Published February 19, 2022

   

  Meeting with Harris at Munich Security Conference touched on 'the importance of confidence-building measures with the Palestinians,' Gantz says

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• Opinion | It Isn’t Apartheid – It’s Worse

  
  March 01, 2022 15:06

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-it-isn-t-apartheid-it-s-worse-1.10630937

   

  By Lev Grinberg

  Published February 24, 2022

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• When an American Christian Zionist Can’t Even Say the Words “Occupation” or “Justice”

  
  March 01, 2022 14:49

  Source: Washington Report

  https://www.wrmea.org/israel-palestine/when-an-american-christian-zionist-cant-even-say-the-words-occupation-or-justice.html

   

  By Daoud Kuttab

  Published February 24, 2022

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• Defacing the Image of God

  
  March 01, 2022 13:59

  Source: Friends of Sabeel North America

  https://www.fosna.org/the-fosna-blog/defacing-the-image-of-god?fbclid=IwAR1XUQUUT-_F06J6qJ95mo4eAskr93scNbx0HwJ4RpoWinkPH41J19pGYiE

   

  By Jesse Steven Wheeler

  Published February, 2022

   

  But when Jesus saw this, he was indignant and said to them, “Let the little children come to me; do not stop them; for it is to such as these that the kingdom of God belongs. —Mark 10:14 (NRSV)

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• In Ukraine’s vulnerability, a reminder for Israel

  
  February 18, 2022 12:57

  Source: The Times of Israel

  https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-ukraines-vulnerability-a-reminder-for-israel/?utm_source=The+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=daily-edition-2022-02-17&utm_medium=email

   

  By DAVID HOROVITZ

  Published February 17, 2022

   

  One country invading another is ‘so 20th century,’ our foreign minister said. Except, as he went on to acknowledge, it’s all too plainly a threat in the here and now

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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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