Common Grounds

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• Spanish FM Hopes His Country Will Recognize Palestine 'In the Coming Months'

  
  November 21, 2017 14:08

  Source: Al Bawaba

  https://www.albawaba.com/main-headlines/spanish-fm-hopes-his-country-will-recognize-palestine-coming-months-1050830

   

  • Spain's FM said he hopes his country would recognize the Palestinian state "in the coming months"
  • He said the recognition should be coordinated within the EU
  • He reaffirmed Spain’s commitment to a two-state solution to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
  • Earlier, Palestinian President Abbas met with Spanish King Felipe VI in Madrid
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• Trump's 'ultimate deal' only offers hard choices for Abbas

  
  November 21, 2017 14:00

  Source: The National

  https://www.thenational.ae/opinion/comment/trump-s-ultimate-deal-only-offers-hard-choices-for-abbas-1.677388

   

  By Jonathan Cook

  Published November 20, 2017

   

  The long wait appears to be coming to an end on Donald Trump’s “ultimate deal”, one supposedly capable of unlocking the impasse between Israel and the Palestinians.

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• Opinion // Palestinians in Gaza Suffer Enough Without Being Defamed as Sexual Deviants and Mentally Ill

  
  November 22, 2017 14:03

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/1.824097

   

  Brian K. Barber and Yasser Abu Jamei

  Published Nov 21, 2017

   

  ‘Rampant sexual abuse, drugs and despair’, as a recent Haaretz article claimed? Not in the Gaza we know. Gazans have outlived all predictions that they would break as individuals and as a society

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• Video: Ending the Zionist system

  
  November 22, 2017 14:27

  Source: The Electronic Intifada

  https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/video-ending-zionist-system

   

  By Ali Abunimah

   

  Sparks flew at a panel I participated in at the Palestine Center’s annual conference in Washington on Friday.

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• The Arrest And Abuse Of Palestinian Children Has To Stop

  
  November 22, 2017 14:45

  Source: The Forward

  http://forward.com/opinion/387632/the-arrest-and-abuse-of-palestinian-children-has-to-stop/

   

  By Issa Amro

  Published November 14, 2017

   

  As a Palestinian human rights defender, I have been arrested by Israel more times that I can count. I have been beaten, stripped and left outside in the cold, and my family has been threatened with violence. During one of my arrests in 2015, I spent five hours handcuffed to a toilet in a filthy bathroom. The soldiers would enter, cock their guns at me and yell, “I will kill you the way ISIS kills.”

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• Fifty faces of occupation

  
  November 24, 2017 15:02

  Source: +972 Magazine

  https://972mag.com/fifty-faces-of-the-occupation/130859/

   

  By Orly Noy
  Published November 21, 2017

   

  A new exhibit by B’Tselem marks 50 years of occupation with portraits of 50 Palestinians born in the occupied territories, who have never known a day of freedom in their lives.

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• Three percent of Arab-Israelis define themselves as Israeli

  
  November 24, 2017 15:18

  Source: JEWS FOR JUSTICE FOR PALESTINIANS

  http://jfjfp.com/?p=96583

   

  By Ron Baruch, Israel Hayom
  Publsihed November 22, 2017

   

  Sixty percent of Israeli Arabs say they are ‘proud’ to be Israeli, poll shows

   

  Israel Hayom poll:• 73% of Israeli Arabs feel a sense of belonging, 82% have no desire to live under Palestinian rule • 73% say Israeli-Palestinian conflict was about land, 19% cite religion • Separate poll shows more alienation among East Jerusalem Arabs.

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• Why rebuild homes in the U.S. while destroying homes in Palestine?

  
  November 24, 2017 15:29

  Source: +972 Magazine

  https://972mag.com/why-rebuild-homes-in-the-u-s-while-destroying-homes-in-palestine/130896/

   

  by Elias Newman

  Published November 23, 2017

   

  The Jewish Federations of North America support disaster relief at home but human rights abuses in Israel/Palestine. Why don’t they see the contradiction?

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• Europe … how long it takes until realize and try to learn from past mistakes

  
  November 24, 2017 15:41

  Source: Syrializm

  http://www.syrializm.com/blog/analytics/575.html

   

  Published 18 November 2017

   

  Anyone who sees the horrifying situation at the European scene in this era, will be fully aware that this old continent is on a verge of collapse, with only a violent shake-up from some major terrorist attack, or an economic whirlwind, is it takes to bring down the already shaky EU structure.

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• Why UK-US divide on Iranian nuclear deal matters

  
  November 27, 2017 14:22

  Source: Al-Monitor

  https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2017/11/iran-nuclear-deal-britain-us-trump-may-divergence-split.html

   

  By Kasra Aarabi 

  Publshed November 22, 2017

   

  European powers, most notably Britain, have rebuffed US President Donald Trump’s Oct. 13 refusal to certify that the landmark nuclear agreement with Iran meets congressional requirements. Issuing a joint statement almost immediately afterward, UK Prime Minister Theresa May and her French and German counterparts reasserted their commitment to the nuclear deal, expressing concern over Trump’s new Iran strategy.

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