Common Grounds

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• Jerusalem should be shared capital, Boris Johnson tells Al Malki

  
  January 09, 2018 15:13

  Source: The National

  https://www.thenational.ae/world/mena/jerusalem-should-be-shared-capital-boris-johnson-tells-al-malki-1.693798

   

  By Noor Nanji
  Published January 8, 2018

   

  Britain's foreign secretary told his Palestinian counterpart that the UK remains committed to a two-state solution

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• Is Trump widening a rift between the evangelicals and Mideast Christians?

  
  January 09, 2018 15:25

  Source: Religion News Service (RNS)

  http://religionnews.com/2018/01/08/is-trump-widening-a-rift-between-the-evangelicals-and-mideast-christians/

   

  By Jack Jenkins

   

  WASHINGTON (RNS) — When President Donald Trump announced in December he would recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and call for the U.S. embassy to be moved there, some of his loudest cheerleaders were American evangelicals.

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• Reporter to Trump ambassador: ‘This is the Netherlands, you have to answer questions’

  
  January 11, 2018 16:22

  Source: The Washington Post

  https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/01/10/trumps-ambassador-to-netherlands-was-asked-to-name-a-person-burned-because-of-islam-he-couldnt/?utm_term=.47bb54516daf&wpisrc=nl_az_most&wpmk=1

   

  By Eli Rosenberg and Amar Nadhir

  Publsihed January 10, 2018

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• Strip Club Worker Says Netanyahu's Son Was a Customer for Several Years

  
  January 12, 2018 10:12

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.833899

   

  Publsihed Jan 09, 2018

   

  Club employee says Shin Bet guards stood watch outside closed door, as PM's son frequented private rooms ■ His ex-girlfriend expresses revulsion for having dated him

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• Abbas looking to fill US-sized hole with more support from EU — report

  
  January 12, 2018 10:20

  Source: The Times of Isrel

  https://www.timesofisrael.com/abbas-looking-to-fill-us-sized-hole-with-more-support-from-eu-report/?utm_source=The+Times+of+Israel+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=aaca979360-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_01_11&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_adb46cec92-aaca979360-54647837

   

  By DOV LIEBER

  Published 11 January 2018

   

  Pan-Arab daily says PA president will head to Brussels later this month with 3 demands: recognize Palestine, support UN membership bid, increase financial aid

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• Vic Mensa: What Palestine Taught Me About American Racism

  
  January 16, 2018 14:54

  Source: Time

  http://time.com/5095435/vic-mensa-palestine-israel-jerusalem/?platform=hootsuite

   

  By VIC MENSA

  Publsihed January 12, 2018

   

  Mensa is a Grammy-nominated rapper from Chicago.

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• The Roadmap Plan: A Path to an Improved Reality

  
  January 16, 2018 15:03

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/haaretz-labels/1.5723164

   

  Publsihed 11.01.2018

   

  A recent survey conducted by Givat Haviva, Center for a Shared Society found that most Israelis want to live alongside one another, sharing in civic equality and a true sense of common life inclusive of different population sectors. At first glance, the findings are surprising – but upon diving into the data, it is clear the reality in Israel is far more complex than it appears

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• Support for Israel among young evangelicals dips, says new survey

  
  January 16, 2018 15:17

  Source: The Times of Israel

  https://www.timesofisrael.com/support-for-israel-among-young-evangelicals-dips-says-new-survey/

   

  By JOSEFIN DOLSTEN

  Published 11 January 2018

   

  'Older American evangelicals love Israel — but many younger evangelicals simply don’t care,' poll finds

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• TRUMP WILL START THE END OF THE WORLD, CLAIM EVANGELICALS WHO SUPPORT HIM

  
  January 18, 2018 13:36

  Source: Newsweek

  http://www.newsweek.com/trump-will-bring-about-end-worldevangelicals-end-times-779643

   

  BY CRISTINA MAZA 

  Publsihed 12.1.2018

   

  Evangelical Christians overwhelmingly support President Donald Trump because they believe he'll cause the world to end. 

   

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• Trump Has Handed The Israel Lobby To Evangelicals. That’s Terrifying.

  
  January 18, 2018 13:50

  Source: The Forward

  https://forward.com/opinion/392156/trump-has-handed-the-israel-lobby-to-evangelicals-thats-terrifying/?attribution=home-article-listing-34-headline

   

  By Jane Eisner

  Publsihed January 15, 2018

   

  Vice President Mike Pence’s on again, off again visit to Israel is apparently on again for next week, but the actual timing was never the real thing. Pence and other deeply conservative white Christian evangelicals now driving American policy toward Israel and the Palestinians are playing a very long game that extends far beyond one news cycle.

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