Common Grounds

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• Trump’s Poised To Recognize Jerusalem As Israel’s Capital. Here’s 6 Reasons You Should Care.

  
  December 06, 2017 15:39

  Source: Forward

  https://forward.com/news/israel/389170/trumps-poised-to-recognize-jerusalem-as-israels-capital-heres-6-reasons-you/?attribution=articles-hero-item-img-2

   

  Nathan Guttman

  December 5, 2017

   

  President Trump is about to fulfill one of his top election promises on Wednesday, but the plan may threaten to ignite the entire Middle East.

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• Trump, Take Note: How Jerusalem Went From Hosting 16 Embassies to Zero

  
  December 06, 2017 15:51

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.826698

   

  David B. Green

  Dec 06, 2017

   

  President Donald Trump may still be mulling whether to move the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, but countries such as Chile, the Netherlands and Kenya once had ambassadors in the city

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• Is Netanyahu still a psychopath and pathological liar?

  
  December 07, 2017 12:12

  Source: Veterans Today

  https://www.veteranstoday.com/2017/12/05/is-netanyahu-still-a-psychopath-and-a-liar/

   

  By Jonas E. Alexis 
  Published December 5, 2017

   

  Ciamak Morsadegh: “Benjamin Netanyahu and the anti-Semites need each other: they supply each other with what they need – intolerance and hatred. The fact is, Iran is a place where Jews feel secure and we are happy to be here. We are proud to be Iranian. I know this doesn't follow the Zionist script, but this is the reality. No one forces the Jews to stay here."

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• Analysis // Trump Hasn’t Killed the Peace Process, He Just Pronounced It Dead

  
  December 07, 2017 15:14

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.827482

   

  By Zvi Bar'el

   

  U.S. recognition of Jerusalem has shattered the illusion that if only the core issues could be resolved, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would come to an end

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• Jerusalem for Dummies: Why the World Doesn’t Recognize It as Israel’s Capital

  
  December 08, 2017 14:07

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.826929

   

  By David B. Green

   

  And why the possibility that Trump might do just that, seven decades after Israel's establishment, is such a source of apprehension worldwide

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• The Evangelical Force Behind Trump's Jerusalem Speech

  
  December 11, 2017 12:54

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.827591

   

  By Allison Kaplan Sommer

  Published Dec 11, 2017

   

  The U.S. evangelical community is in raptures over Trump's decision to declare Jerusalem the capital of Israel, believing it moves the world closer to Armagedon

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• I have witnessed two intifadas. Trump’s stance on Israel may ignite a third

  
  December 11, 2017 13:22

  Source: The Guardian

  https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/dec/10/trump-jerusalem-israel-capital-may-incite-intifada

   

  By Raja Shehadeh

  Published 10 December 2017

   

  In recognising Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, the US president has hindered the prospect of peace in the region

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• Trump’s truth

  
  December 12, 2017 13:25

  Source: JEWS FOR JUSTICE FOR PALESTINIANS

  http://jfjfp.com/?p=96996

   

  By Robert A. H. Cohen, Writing from the Edge/Patheos
  Published December 10, 2017

   

  Why Trump’s Jerusalem “reality” is good news for Palestinian solidarity

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• Netanyahu fails to sell Trump Jerusalem recognition in Europe

  
  December 12, 2017 13:31

  Source: The Middle East Monitor

  https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20171212-netanyahu-fails-to-sell-trump-jerusalem-recognition-in-europe/

   

  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has failed to convince the European Union to follow the lead of US President Donald Trump and recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

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• The Qur’an: From a Talisman to a Book for Life

  
  December 12, 2017 20:27

  Source: HuffPost

  https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-quran-from-a-talisman-to-a-book-for-life_us_5a2ff21ae4b0cf10effbb096

   

  By Safi Kaskas, Contributor

  Co-author of “The Qur’an, A Contemporary Understanding, with References to the Bible”

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