Common Grounds

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• In first, Israel bars EU MPs from entering the country

  
  November 14, 2017 13:43

  Source: Globes

  http://www.globes.co.il/en/article-israel-bars-eu-mps-from-entering-the-country-1001211573

   

  By Tal Schneider

  13 Nov, 2017

   

  20 French MPs and mayors and EU MPS, engaged in BDS activities, had planned visiting Israel and the Palestinian Authority next week.

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• Most Israeli Jews Would Deny Voting Rights to Arab Citizens Who Reject Zionist Narrative, Survey Finds

  
  November 14, 2017 13:32

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.821470

   

  By Judy Maltz

  Nov 07, 2017

   

  New survey by Israel Democracy Institute finds most Arabs in Israel don’t consider 'Palestinian' their primary identity

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• Two faces of Zionism

  
  November 14, 2017 14:04

  Source: JEWS FOR JUSTICE FOR PALESTINIANS

  http://jfjfp.com/?p=96324

   

  By Brian Klug, Marxism 2017, London
  July 08, 2017

   

  Zionism, Antisemitism and the Left Today

   

  Speaking of Zionism

   

  Frankly, I don’t know how to approach this talk. There are a number of things that I want to say which are difficult to get across at this forum, and twenty minutes doesn’t give me much time to do it. Mainly, I shall be critiquing the stock way in which Zionism is thought about and spoken about on the pro-Palestinian left. I am referring to a discourse that folds Zionism completely — without remainder — into the history of European imperialism and colonialism, as if Zionism does not have its roots in the Jewish experience of centuries of exclusion and persecution in Europe.

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• Why Israel does not want a sovereign Palestinian state

  
  November 15, 2017 13:52

  Source: Middle East Eye

  http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/why-israel-does-not-want-sovereign-palestinian-state-339490166

   

  By Ben White

  Published 14 November 2017

   

  How many Israeli settlers – or settlement houses – until a two-state solution is impossible? That's the question we should be asking our politicians, who frequently refer to a "closing window of opportunity" for a Palestinian state in light of Israeli "facts on the ground".

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• First-ever bill on Palestinian human rights introduced in Congress

  
  November 15, 2017 14:05

  Source: Defense for Children International PALESTINE

  http://www.dci-palestine.org/first_ever_bill_on_palestinian_human_rights_introduced_in_congress

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• One Picture … Possibilities of Hope ...

  
  November 15, 2017 21:54

  By Safi Kaskas

   

  Source: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10159592751990181&set=a.10150356310795181.593712.782020180&type=3&theater

   

  My friend Rich A Rosendahl posted the following story. I am sharing it with you not to debate historical rights but to share a human story...

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• From Sweden to Palestine

  
  November 17, 2017 12:02

  Source: TRT World 

  https://www.facebook.com/trtworld/videos/1995639464039533/

   

  Pro-Palestine activist Benjamin Ladraa is walking from Sweden to Palestine to raise awareness of the Palestinian cause and mark the centennial of the Balfour agreement.

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• Christian Zionism: The Heresy that Undermines Middle East Peace

  
  November 17, 2017 12:41

  Source: Information Clearing House

  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35747.htm

   

  By Rev Dr Stephen Sizer

   

  Christian Zionism is the largest, most controversial and most destructive lobby within Christianity. It bears primary responsibility for perpetuating tensions in the Middle East, justifying Israel’s apartheid colonialist agenda and for undermining the peace process between Israel and the Palestinians.

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• Hundreds of Palestinians on the brink of expulsion: ‘We just want to live'

  
  November 20, 2017 15:04

  Source: +972 Magazine

  https://972mag.com/hundreds-of-palestinians-on-the-brink-of-expulsion-we-just-want-to-live/130818/

   

  By Keren Manor / Activestills.org

   

  Three hundred Palestinians have been ordered to leave their homes and take with them all their belongings within the next eight days. Where are they supposed to go? The military order provides no answers. In the meantime, they wait for the rain that refuses to come.

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• Count Folke Bernadotte: His Mediations, Peace Proposals, and Brutal Assassination…

  
  November 20, 2017 11:46

  Adapted from: Menuhin, Moshe. "Not by Might, Nor by Power": The Zionist Betrayal of Judaism (Forbidden Bookshelf) (Kindle Locations 9406-9410). Open Road Media. Kindle Edition.

   

  Edited by Abraham A. van Kempen

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