Common Grounds

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• Between Poland's Holocaust revisionism and Israel's Nakba denial

  
  February 05, 2018 14:39

  Source: +972 Magazine

  https://972mag.com/between-polands-holocaust-revisionism-and-israels-nakba-denial/132744/

   

  By Haneen Zoabi
  Published January 28, 2018

   

  Poland’s attempt to scrub clean its role in the murder of European Jewry is, at its core, no different from Israel’s attempt to erase the catastrophe that befell the Palestinians in 1948.

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• PLO to Demand UN Security Council Recognize Palestine Within 1967 Borders

  
  February 05, 2018 14:44

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/palestinians/plo-to-demand-un-security-council-to-recognize-palestine-1.5787277

   

  By Jack Khoury
  Published Feb 04, 2018

   

  The Palestine Liberation Organization will also formulate a plan for disengaging from Israel in terms of security and economics

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• ARE EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANS ANTI-PALESTINIAN?

  
  February 05, 2018 14:54

  Source: The Jerusalem Post

  http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Are-Evangelical-Christians-anti-Palestinian-540601#/

   

  By Joel C. Rosenberg
  Published FEBRUARY 3, 2018

   

  To the contrary, Scripture teaches us to love both Arabs and Jews.

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• ‘Two-state’ solution only way to resolve Israeli-Palestinian conflict: UN

  
  February 06, 2018 15:29

  Source: Press TV

  http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2018/02/06/551421/Palestine-Israel-UN-Antonio-Guterres

   

  United Nations (UN) Secretary General Antonio Guterres has emphasized that the so-called two-state solution is the sole way out of the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict, warning that the “negative trends” unfolding in the region could endanger the bid.

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• UN Resolution 242’s True Significance vs. Popular Zionist Myth

  
  February 07, 2018 15:25

  Source: Foreign Policy Journal

  https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2018/01/26/un-resolution-242s-true-significance-vs-popular-zionist-myth/

   

  By Jeremy R. Hammond

  Published Jan 26, 2018

   

  Contrary to the popular Zionist myth upon which the entire so-called "peace process" was premised, UN Security Council Resolution 242 requires Israel to fully and immediately withdraw its armed forces from occupied Palestine.

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• A blessing or colossal curse? What it means to be an Israeli today

  
  February 08, 2018 14:47

  Source: Middle East Eye 

  http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/colossal-curse-god-1161324388

   

  By Marcelo Svirsky
  Published 22 January 2018

   

  We should not assume that everything the Israelis earn from their acts of colonisation of Palestinians is profit and privilege

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• ENCOUNTERING PEACE: SUCCESSFUL CONTACTS

  
  February 09, 2018 14:48

  Source: The Jerusalem Post

  http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Encountering-Peace-Successful-contacts-540994

   

  BY GERSHON BASKIN

  Published FEBRUARY 7, 2018

   

  I remain convinced that Israeli-Palestinian peace is possible and that the compromises necessary to reach an agreement could be accepted by both sides – if we managed to change the climate.

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• To Achieve One State, Palestinians Must Also Work for Two

  
  February 09, 2018 15:08

  Source: Al-Shabaka

  https://al-shabaka.org/commentaries/achieve-one-state-palestinians-must-also-work-two/?platform=hootsuite

   

  By Nadia Hijab

  Published February 7, 2018

   

  In the wake of US President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, reinforced by Vice President Mike Pence’s promise to move the US embassy before the end of 2019, there has been a flurry of pieces heralding the imminent shift in a Palestinian strategy toward a one-state solution with equal rights. Both Palestinian negotiators closely involved in the moribund Oslo peace process and Palestinians who have long since despaired of Oslo declared that it is time to transform the struggle. Meanwhile, Israel continued to expand settlements, crack down on protests, and plan annexation of some or all of the West Bank.

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• Confederation: The One Possible Israel-Palestine Solution

  
  February 09, 2018 15:46

  Source: The New York Review of Books

  The New York Review of Books

   

  By Bernard Avishai

  Published February 2, 2018

   

  “The two-state solution is over,” Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat told reporters, responding to Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. “Now is the time to transform the struggle for one state with equal rights for everyone living in historic Palestine, from the river to the sea.” As The New York Times subsequently reported, Erekat is hardly alone. The “over”-ness of “two states”—albeit with radical disagreements about the character of a hypothetical single state—has been claimed by ideological zealots, severe liberals, and exasperated peacemakers alike.

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• Trump: Palestinians Aren't Looking to Making Peace – but I'm Not Sure Israel Is Either

  
  February 12, 2018 15:43

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/trump-i-m-not-sure-israel-is-committed-to-peace-1.5807517

   

  By Noa Landau
  Published Feb 11, 2018

   

  In interview with Sheldon Adelson-owned Israeli newspaper, U.S. president also says Israeli settlements complicate the task of making peace

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