Common Grounds

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• German leader calls Netanyahu, stresses need for two-state solution

  
  April 17, 2019 13:24

  Source: The Times of Israel

  https://www.timesofisrael.com/german-leader-calls-netanyahu-stresses-need-for-two-state-solution/

   

  By TOI STAFF and AP

  Published 15 April 2019

   

  Comments, reported only by Merkel’s office, follow PM’s campaign vow to annex settlements, rejection of Palestinian statehood

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• The Zionist Idea has Never Been More Terrifying than It Is Today

  
  May 13, 2019 16:05

  Source: American Herald Tribune

  https://ahtribune.com/world/north-africa-south-west-asia/palestine/3144-the-zionist-idea-has-never-been-more-terrifying-than-it-is-today.html

   

  By RIMA NAJJAR 

  Published MAY 12 ,2019

   

  On this seventy-first annual commemoration of Palestine’s Jewish-state Nakba, let’s resolve not to continue to oversimplify things.

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• The Day Christian Fundamentalism Was Born

  
  May 28, 2019 16:24

  Source: The New York Times

  https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/25/opinion/the-day-christian-fundamentalism-was-born.html

   

  By Matthew Avery Sutton

  Published May 25, 2019

   

  How a meeting in Philadelphia changed American religion forever.
   

  For many Americans, it was thrilling to be alive in 1919. The end of World War I had brought hundreds of thousands of soldiers home. Cars were rolling off the assembly lines. New forms of music, like jazz, were driving people to dance. And science was in the ascendant, after helping the war effort. Women, having done so much on the home front, were ready to claim the vote, and African-Americans were eager to enjoy full citizenship, at long last. In a word, life was dazzlingly modern.

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• Manifest Destinies

  
  June 05, 2019 16:30

  Source: The Nation

  https://www.thenation.com/article/amy-kaplan-our-american-israel-book-review/

   

  By Rashid Khalidi

  Published JUNE 3, 2019

   

  The tangled history of American and Israeli exceptionalism.

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• Neither Israel's nor Germany's Slide Into Fascism Was Accidental

  
  June 10, 2019 12:34

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-neither-israel-s-nor-germany-s-slide-into-fascism-was-accidental-1.7338787

   

  By Yoav Rinon 

  Published Jun 06, 2019

   

  The Zionist attempt to create a secular-national movement based on Jewish identity could not help but have a religious messianic component. From there it was inevitable that it would turn racist

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• Pompeo, End Times, and False Flag War on Iran

  
  June 17, 2019 11:47

  Source: Antiwar.com

  https://original.antiwar.com/utley/2019/06/16/pompeo-end-times-and-false-flag-war-on-iran/

   

  By Jon Basil Utley 

  Published June 17, 2019

   

  A main issue with wars, indeed Sun Tzu’s first admonition, is that war should be a last resort, not the first as Washington seems to favor. Because one never knows where wars lead once they start. The fear is that Iran, once the United States attacks it, will be faced with the Hobson’s choice – either fire its missiles, it’s main non-obsolete weapon, or risk the U.S. destroying them. Firing them risks conflagration of much of the Persian Gulf oil shipping infrastructure. New technology in cheap mines and drones might also close the Gulf to shipping. This would devastate the world economy much of which depends upon the oil.

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• Selling Israel Biblically

  
  June 26, 2019 11:48

  Source: Tikkun

  https://www.tikkun.org/selling-israel-biblically?fbclid=IwAR3lwj2x3AFuzGzJv7vtWiBJ0sIRUvBdDGeKE9ranXie9yrGfXHSomm-Vdk

   

  By M. Reza Behnam

  Published June 20, 2019

   

  Christian Zionism’s Political Power

   

  Geopolitical, economic, energy, and military determinants have shaped U.S. Middle East policy since the Second World War. No less significant, however, is the powerful influence of Christian Zionism on the formation of America’s Israel-first policy. With over 40 million adherents, it has become a powerful force in shaping that policy, especially today.

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• Jerusalem's Old City: How Palestine's past is being slowly erased

  
  June 26, 2019 12:07

  Source: Middle East Eye

  https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/jerusalem-old-city-how-palestinian-past-being-erased-deal-century?fbclid=IwAR37cmgiMKOiBTAkG6JB7FdNfN3i8BC6CyMRkf0y2W7IUuW4mFCVfwubLdY

   

  By Jonathan Cook
  Published 20 June 2019

   

  The Israeli occupation has left its physical and political mark within the historic walls, with most Palestinians barred from visiting Al-Aqsa

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• The Limits of European Influence in Palestine and Israel

  
  July 02, 2019 11:11

  Source: Carnegie Europe

  https://carnegieeurope.eu/strategiceurope/79390

   

  By Khalil Shikaki

  Published June 27, 2019

   

  This blog is part of EU-LISTCO, an innovative and timely project that investigates the challenges facing Europe’s foreign policy. A consortium of fourteen leading research institutions and universities aims to identify risks connected to areas of limited statehood and contested orders—and the EU’s ability to respond.

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• An Open Letter To My Fellow American, Civil Servant Jared Kushner

  
  July 04, 2019 15:22

  By Sam Bahour

   

  Published on Linkedin

  https://medium.com/@sbahour/an-open-letter-to-my-fellow-american-civil-servant-jared-kushner-e0207cb4b91a

   

  27 June 2019

   

  From one American to another: Get out of the car. Go home.

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