Common Grounds

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• The stuff on Israel which Americans may not see

  
  August 30, 2017 12:50

  Source: JEWS FOR JUSTICE FOR PALESTINIANS

  http://jfjfp.com/?p=94637

   

  Telling the truth may be a defence against a libel action; it is no defence against the multi-headed hydra which is the American lobby in the USA. Forget the rational argument of free speech; think the religiosity of blasphemy. In an excerpt from his chapter in ‘Israel and Palestine : alternative perspectives on statehood’ Richard Silverstein tracks how the Israel lobby demonises Palestinians and does all it can to prevent any less than adoring picture of Israel being made public.

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• UN: Israel settlements big hurdle to two-state solution

  
  August 30, 2017 15:01

  Source: Al Jazeera

  http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/08/israel-settlements-big-hurdle-state-solution-170829174956923.html

   

  Antonio Guterres condemns 'illegal' Israeli settlement construction, calling it an 'obstacle' that needs to be removed.

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• Opinion // Israel's Minister of Truth

  
  August 31, 2017 15:18

  Source: Haaretz

  http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.809867

   

  By Gideon Levy

  Aug 30, 2017

   

  Israel Justice Minister Shaked said the truth loud and clear: Zionism contradicts human rights, and thus is indeed an ultranationalist, colonialist and perhaps racist movement

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• Israel is getting creative at countering its demographic disadvantage, but it may be too little, too late

  
  September 04, 2017 18:27

  Source: The National

  https://www.thenational.ae/opinion/israel-is-getting-creative-at-countering-its-demographic-disadvantage-but-it-may-be-too-little-too-late-1.624680

   

  By Jonathan Cook
  August 31, 2017

   

  Still, opening the doors to "Jewish" non-Jews is a step too far

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• An open letter to Ambassador David Friedman about the occupation

  
  September 05, 2017 16:15

  Source: The Times of Israel 

  http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/an-open-letter-to-ambassador-david-friedman-about-the-occupation/

   

  By Hillel Schenker

  SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

   

  In 2003, Likud Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said the following:  “You cannot like the word, but what is happening is an occupation — to hold 3.5 million Palestinians under occupation. I believe that is a terrible thing for Israel and for the Palestinians.”

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• How Palestinians can reverse Israel’s divide and conquer tactics

  
  September 06, 2017 12:20

  Source: +972 Magazine

  https://972mag.com/how-palestinians-can-reverse-israels-divide-and-conquer-tactics/129577/

   

  By Sam Bahour

  Published September 5, 2017

   

  Oslo allowed Israel to reduce Palestinians to disparate fragments, each with their own challenge to merely survive. It’s time to reset that reality and view the Palestinians for what they are — physically fragmented, politically divided, but a whole people.

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• China’s New Plan for Israel-Palestine

  
  September 14, 2017 14:14

  Source: Al-Shabaka

  https://al-shabaka.org/memos/chinas-new-plan-israel-palestine/

   

  By Zaid Shuaibi

  September 13, 2017

   

  China recently proposed a new four-point plan to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Is this a major departure along a new track that challenges US hegemony and European passivity? Or is China simply pursuing its own economic interests in the guise of peacemaker?

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• What made me a hardline Zionist

  
  September 14, 2017 13:48

  Source: JEWS FOR JUSTICE FOR PALESTINIANS

  http://jfjfp.com/?p=94880

   

  By Gary C. Gambill, JPost
  September 04, 2017

   

  The Accidental Zionist

   

  How a pro-Palestinian Georgetown student became a Zionist.

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• Opinion // The Occupation Will Corrupt, Is Corrupting, and Has Corrupted

  
  September 14, 2017 13:33

  Source: Haaretz

  http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.810596

   

  B. Michael

  Published Sep 05, 2017

   

  From now on we are neither democratic nor Jewish. We’re just a zealous, racist, evil, arrogant caliphate that is a danger to itself and its environment

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• Methodist Recorder: an exchange of views

  
  September 14, 2017 13:11

  Methodist Recorder: an exchange of views

  http://jfjfp.com/?p=94982

   

  Recently the National Coalition of Christian Organisations in Palestine (NCCOP) sent an Open Letter to the World Council of Churches (WCC).  The WCC recommended that its member churches read and share the Open Letter. 

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