Common Grounds

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• Anti-Semitism vs. anti-colonialism

  
  August 27, 2018 12:10

  Source: The Electronic Intifada

  https://electronicintifada.net/content/anti-semitism-vs-anti-colonialism/25346

   

  By Joseph Massad

  Published 24 August 2018

   

  Much of the ongoing acrimonious and toxic debate in Britain about allegations of anti-Semitism in the Labour Party centers on expressions of opposition to Israeli laws, policies, ideologies, actions and declarations.

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• Opinion // Why Corbynism Is a Threat to Jews Throughout the Western World

  
  August 29, 2018 12:56

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/.premium-why-corbynism-is-a-threat-to-jews-throughout-the-western-world-1.6339863

   

  By Anshel Pfeffer 

  Published Aug 03, 2018

   

  Even his close advisors are astonished by the Labour leader’s refusal to act on the party’s crisis with British Jews. This is why Corbyn can’t and won’t face up to anti-Semitism on the left – and why it will have international consequences

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• The Manure You Can’t Stick Back into the Horse …

  
  August 13, 2018 11:28

  By Abraham A. van Kempen

   

  ‘Christian Zionism … Enraptured Around a Golden Calf’

  By Abraham A. van Kempen

   

  Amazon sells the Kindle E-Book edition for $3.33;the Paperback, for $33.30

   

  Barnes and Noble sells the Nook E-Book edition for $2.99; the Paperback, for $33.30

   

  FastPencil Publisher sells all E-Book versions for $3.33; the Paperback, for $33.30

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• Trump’s Middle East Peace Plan Makes Palestinians Disappear

  
  September 06, 2018 11:31

  Source: Bloomberg

  https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-09-06/palestinians-vanish-in-trump-s-israel-friendly-mideast-peace-plan

   

  By Hussein Ibish

  Published September 6, 2018

   

  Pretending that Palestinians hardly matter won’t make them go away.

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• Analysis // Trump's Revived Jordan-Palestinian Confederation Plan May Be Dead on Arrival

  
  September 07, 2018 15:09

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/palestinians/.premium-trump-s-jordan-palestinian-confederation-plan-may-be-doa-1.6436489

   

  By Zvi Bar'el 

  Published Sep 03, 2018

   

  The Palestinians refuse to give up their aspirations for independence, Israel is waging a war on the idea of an independent Palestinian state, and Jordan fears losing its national identity

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• These millennials still believe in a two-state solution. Are they too late?

  
  September 07, 2018 14:58

  Source: The Times of Israel

  https://www.timesofisrael.com/these-millennials-still-believe-in-a-two-state-solution-are-they-too-late/

   

  By  CHARLES DUNST

  Published 1 September 2018

   

  Seeking to fill a centrist vacuum in the Jewish communal landscape, IPF Atid builds networks in four cities, holding events for young professionals in New York, DC, Chicago and LA

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• Two-state hypocrisy

  
  September 12, 2018 12:41

  Source: The Electronic Intifada

  https://electronicintifada.net/content/two-state-hypocrisy/25446

   

  By Mohamed Mohamed

  Published 7 September 2018

   

  Imagine the following scenario: In response to the peaceful African-American civil rights movement in the United States, led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during the 1960s, a large segment of white Americans figured that the best solution to the issue would be to form a new country on a small part of US territory in the north, where African-Americans would be segregated and live on their own.

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• A 'gentleman's agreement': How Oslo worked out as planned for Israel

  
  September 13, 2018 13:47

  Source: Middle East Eye

  https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/gentlemen-agreement-how-oslo-didnt-fail-israel-1444351752

   

  By Jonathan Cook

  Published 13 September 2018

   

  Twenty-five years on, analysts say Oslo didn't fail: it offered Israel a formula to block the emergence of a Palestinian state

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• Opinion Are the Bedouin of Palestine a Lost Tribe of Israel?

  
  September 18, 2018 12:48

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/.premium-are-the-bedouin-of-palestine-a-lost-tribe-of-israel-1.6467143

   

  By Seraj Assi 

  Published Sep 12, 2018

   

  Israel's highest court okaying the erasure of yet another West Bank Bedouin village is a striking departure from early Zionists who saw the Bedouin as blood brothers, 'hidden Jews,' and an aspirational model for the modern Hebrew nation

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• From Peace to Armageddon / The Israel-Palestine nightmare

  
  September 18, 2018 13:16

  Source: Wae is Boring

  https://warisboring.com/from-peace-to-armageddon/

   

  By Sandy Tolan

  Published September 18, 2018 

   

  When I first traveled to Israel-Palestine in 1994, during the heady early days of the Oslo peace process, I was expecting to see more of the joyful celebrations I’d watched on television at home. The emotional welcoming of Palestinian Liberation Organization chairman Yasser Arafat back to Palestine.

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