Common Grounds

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• Evangelical Christian Groups Invested $65 Million to Jewish Settlements

  
  December 10, 2018 15:16

  Source: The Palestine Chronicle

  http://www.palestinechronicle.com/evangelical-christian-groups-invested-65-million-to-jewish-settlements/

   

  By the Palestine Chronicle staff

  Published December 10, 2018

   

  Evangelical Christian groups have invested up to $65 million in projects in the “Biblical Heartland” over the past decade, however, that doesn’t include services they provide free of charge, such as volunteer laborers, according to a Haaretz investigation.

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• Why Auschwitz survivor Esther Bejarano supports BDS

  
  December 10, 2018 15:34

  Source: The Electronic Intifada

  https://electronicintifada.net/content/why-auschwitz-survivor-esther-bejarano-supports-bds/26191

   

  By Adri Nieuwhof

  Published 6 December 2018

   

  Esther Bejarano learned to love music from her father Rudolf Loewy, a cantor in the Jewish community of the southwest German town of Saarlouis, where she was born in 1924.

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• Opinion // 'Trump Will Make Palestine Great Again': The Most Combative, Uncomfortable Op-eds of 2018

  
  January 03, 2019 14:24

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/trump-will-make-palestine-great-again-the-31-most-uncomfortable-opeds-of-2018-1.6758748

   

  By Esther Solomon

  Published Dec 30, 2018

   

  From Pittsburgh to Khashoggi, settlements to Syria, Netanyahu's far-right friends and Assad's Western apologists, Palestinian 'saints' and Sikhs for Palestine: Here are 31 op-eds to ruin your holiday mood

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• The moral travesty of Israel seeking Arab, Iranian money for its alleged Nakba

  
  January 18, 2019 15:23

  Source: The Arab American

  https://www.arabamericannews.com/2019/01/18/the-moral-travesty-of-israel-seeking-arab-iranian-money-for-its-alleged-nakba/

   

  By Ramzy Baroud

  Published 18.01, 2019

   

  The game is afoot. Israel, believe it or not, is demanding that seven Arab countries and Iran pay $250 billion as compensation for what it claims was the forceful exodus of Jews from Arab countries during the late 1940s.

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• Opinion // I'm Shaving Off My Zionism, the Worst a Man Can Get

  
  January 18, 2019 15:31

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-i-m-shaving-off-my-zionism-the-worst-a-man-can-get-1.6850415

   

  By Bradley Burston

  Published Jan 17, 2019

   

  The Gillette commercial caused me to look again, more closely, at Netanyahu's Iwo Jima moment. That's when it struck me

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• Time to Break the Silence on Palestine

  
  January 23, 2019 13:11

  Source: The New York Times

  https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/19/opinion/sunday/martin-luther-king-palestine-israel.html

   

  By Michelle Alexander

  Published January 19, 2019

   

  On April 4, 1967, exactly one year before his assassination, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stepped up to the lectern at the Riverside Church in Manhattan. The United States had been in active combat in Vietnam for two years and tens of thousands of people had been killed, including some 10,000 American troops. The political establishment — from left to right — backed the war, and more than 400,000 American service members were in Vietnam, their lives on the line.

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• Report: Palestinian Christian Diplomacy in Fight against Christian Zionists

  
  February 08, 2019 15:42

  Source: International Middle East Media Center

  http://imemc.org/article/report-palestinian-christian-diplomacy-in-fight-against-christian-zionists/

   

  By Daoud Kuttab

  Published February 8, 2019

   

  The Palestinian government is turning to its own Christian community and even its evangelicals to campaign against distorted Christian Zionists.

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• Will Palestine finally recognize local evangelicals?

  
  March 01, 2019 22:01

  Source: Al-Monitor

  https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2019/02/palestinian-evangelicals-recognition-christian-zionism.html

   

  BY Daoud Kuttab 

  Published February 18, 2019

   

  After years of inaction and even rejection, the Palestinian government appears poised to recognize local evangelical churches in Palestine.

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• Politics is religion, and the right is getting ready for the end times

  
  March 20, 2019 16:28

  Source: The Washington Post

  https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-left-was-about-salvation-the-right-is-about-the-end-times/2019/03/18/2cd16898-49b8-11e9-9663-00ac73f49662_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.99d247856410&wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1

   

  By Michael Gerson

  Published March 18, 2019

   

  As politics has become a religion in so many lives, political discourse has taken on theological overtones. I am not referring to President Trump’s accusation of a “witch hunt,” which places the FBI in the role of Puritan divines. This is merely an absurd metaphor.

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• What Does Christianity Say About One People, One Land, One God?

  
  September 21, 2018 20:17

  By Abraham A. van Kempen

   

  Source: The Times of Israel

  https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/what-does-christianity-say-about-one-people-one-land-one-god/

  Published SEP 22, 2018

   

  When asked on my first day in kindergarten, ‘where were you born,’ I sparkled with pride: ‘Palaestina!’ Palaestina, pronounced in Dutch, sounded so exotic.

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