Common Grounds

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• Can You Trust God to Let the Chips Fall Where He wants?

  
  October 15, 2019 13:51

  By: Abraham A. van Kempen

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• Why evangelicals in the US should support the establishment of a Palestinian state

  
  October 25, 2019 14:15

  Source: The Christian Post

  https://www.christianpost.com/voice/why-evangelicals-in-the-us-should-support-the-establishment-of-a-palestinian-state.html

   

  By Issam Smeir, Voices Contributor

  Published September 18, 2019

   

  This summer in Bahrain, Jared Kushner's plan for a bright new economic future for Palestine was announced. This plan, however, not only does not include a solution to the political challenges in the region (that's anticipated to come this fall), but it follows on the heels of rumors that the Trump administration has been considering alternatives that do not include a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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• Countering Christian Zionism in the Age of Trump

  
  November 01, 2019 13:24

  Source: Middle East Research and Information Project

  https://merip.org/2019/08/countering-christian-zionism-in-the-age-of-trump/

   

  By Mimi Kirk 

  Published 08 August 2019

   

  The May 2018 ceremony marking the opening of the US embassy in Jerusalem featured many of the usual suspects. US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, Senior Advisor to President Donald Trump Jared Kushner and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu all delivered remarks during the more than one-hour-long ceremony that touted the US-Israel relationship and, in Netanyahu’s words, embraced Jerusalem as “the eternal, undivided capital of Israel.”

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• Jewish Citizens in a Future Democratic Palestine?

  
  November 18, 2019 14:33

  Source: Providence 

  https://providencemag.com/2019/11/dual-democracies-initiative-israel-jewish-citizens-democratic-palestine/

   

  By George E. Assousa 

  Published November 13, 2019

   

  As a 12-year-old boy in 1948, I fled with my family from our home in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Katamon and never returned. Life took me to Ramallah, where I received a good Christian education, and then to the United States, where I became a physicist. Eventually, I went to the United Kingdom, where I became involved in international economic development. My heart still beats with memories of my beautiful home in Jerusalem, but my mind—trained through physics to deal with concrete facts—tells me that, unfortunately, history in Palestine cannot be reversed. The future, on the contrary, is in our hands. 

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• Church of England report admits Christian anti-Semitism helped lead to Holocaust

  
  November 25, 2019 14:54

  Source: The Times of Israel

  https://www.timesofisrael.com/church-of-england-report-admits-christian-anti-semitism-led-to-holocaust/

   

  By ROBERT PHILPOT

  Publshed 22 November 2019

   

  Work acknowledges ‘fertile seed-bed for murderous anti-Semitism in the modern era’; in afterword to 105-page document, chief rabbi slams evangelical attempts to convert Jews

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• Israel needs unity, not immunity

  
  January 06, 2020 11:37

  Source: The Times of Israel

  https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-knesset-is-not-a-refuge-for-criminals/?utm_source=The+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=daily-edition-2020-01-02&utm_medium=email

   

  By Benny Gantz

  Published January 2, 2020

   

  Netanyahu should have assured Israel that the country is more important than any person's job; instead, he is perverting the rule of law

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• Daoud Kuttab Says More…

  
  January 09, 2020 11:18

  Source: The PS Say More Newsletter

  https://us10.campaign-archive.com/?u=9116789a51839e0f88fa29b83&id=68cd46793c&e=284f1f0e24

   

  By Project Syndicate

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• A Boiling Point

  
  January 13, 2020 11:42

  Source: The National Council of Churches

  https://nationalcouncilofchurches.us/a-boiling-point/

   

  By Jim Winkler

  Published January 8, 2020

   

  " Not only has Mr. Trump illegally assassinated an Iranian military leader, he now threatens to destroy ancient Persian cultural landmarks. The entire world is disgusted by such barbaric declarations.

   

  JIM WINKLER, PRESIDENT AND GENERAL SECRETARY

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• A Recurring Theme of My Pontificate …

  
  January 17, 2020 10:11

  Living Words from John Paul II

  Edited by Abraham A. van Kempen

   

  Published Sunday, 19 January 2020

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• Trump’s plan isn’t about peace between Israelis and Palestinians

  
  January 27, 2020 13:22

  Source: The Times of Israel

  https://www.timesofisrael.com/trumps-plan-isnt-about-peace-between-israelis-and-palestinians/?utm_source=The+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=daily-edition-2020-01-24&utm_medium=email

   

  By JACOB MAGID

  Published 24 January 2020

   

  As rivals Netanyahu and Gantz get White House invite, Washington’s proposal could be a basis for long-elusive Israeli unity government, and a springboard for annexing settlements

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