Common Grounds

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• Are Zionists and Evangelicals turning against each other in the Holy Land?

  
  May 22, 2020 11:03

  Source: TRT World

  https://www.trtworld.com/magazine/are-zionists-and-evangelicals-turning-against-each-other-in-the-holy-land-36224

   

  Published 11 May, 2020

   

  Israeli authorities consider a ban on an Evangelical channel in Israel on the grounds that it aims to convert Jews to Christianity.

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• 1985 Address of His Holiness John Paul II to Young Muslims

  
  May 24, 2020 11:55

  Living Words from John Paul II

  Edited by Abraham A. van Kempen

   

  Published Sunday, 24 May 2020

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• Opinion / Netanyahu Can’t Sell the Idiocy of Annexation to U.S. Jews, So He Went to the Evangelicals

  
  May 26, 2020 12:18

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-bibi-can-t-sell-u-s-jews-the-idiocy-of-annexation-so-he-went-to-the-evangelicals-1.8868556

   

  By Eric H. Yoffie

  Published 24 May, 2020

   

  What do J Street and Daniel Pipes have in common? 

   
  Generally speaking, nothing whatever.  

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• Victim of a left-wing coup? Why Netanyahu’s conspiracy theory is foul and absurd

  
  May 26, 2020 12:38

  Source: The Times of Israel

  https://www.timesofisrael.com/victim-of-a-left-wing-coup-why-netanyahus-conspiracy-theory-is-foul-and-absurd/?utm_source=The+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=daily-edition-2020-05-25&utm_medium=email

   

  By DAVID HOROVITZ

  Published 25 May, 2020

   

  PM claims cops, prosecutors et al want to oust him for ideological reasons. But his predecessor, Olmert, was also prosecuted. And he was set to cede settlements, parts of Jerusalem

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• Gantz expresses sorrow over police killing of East Jerusalem man with autism

  
  May 31, 2020 17:11

  Source: The Times of Israel

  https://www.timesofisrael.com/gantz-expresses-sorrow-over-police-killing-of-east-jerusalem-man-with-autism/?utm_source=The+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=daily-edition-2020-05-31&utm_medium=email

   

  By TOI STAFF

  Published MAY 31, 2020

   

  Defense minister says he’s certain the shooting of Iyad Halak, who police said they mistakenly thought was armed, will be investigated quickly

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• THE TIMES OF ISRAEL COMMUNITY

  
  June 03, 2020 16:17

  Source: The Times of Israel Community

   

  By David Horovitz
  Founding Editor, The Times of Israel

   

   

  Dear Community members and Daily Edition readers,

   

  The “whole of the Torah,” the core of Judaism, was summed up by the Mishnaic sage Hillel as “What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor.”

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• Justice for Iyad, Justice for George

  
  June 09, 2020 12:55

  By Edo Konrad

  Editor-in-Chief

  +972 Magazine

   

  Over the past week, we have been witnessing a massive police riot across the United States in response to the protests sparked by the police killing of George Floyd. The demonstrations have spread from Minneapolis, where Floyd was killed by Officer Derek Chauvin who kneeled on his neck for over eight minutes, to cities across the world. 

   

  On Monday, President Trump promised only more bloodshed when he threatened to send in the military to put down the uprising.

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• As world roils, Ethiopian-born minister leads ‘wake up’ call on racism in Israel

  
  June 12, 2020 12:32

  Source: The Times of Israel

  https://www.timesofisrael.com/as-world-roils-ethiopian-born-minister-leads-wake-up-call-on-racism-in-israel/?utm_source=The+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=daily-edition-2020-06-11&utm_medium=email

   

  By SAM SOKOL

  Published 11 June 2020

   

  Many black Israelis say they see a reflection of their own struggle in Floyd protests. Absorption Minister Pnina Tamano-Shata says Israel must, and can, become a beacon of progress

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• A plea to Gantz, Ashkenazi: Israel and its friends need you to block annexation

  
  June 16, 2020 00:32

  Source: The Times of Israel

  https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/a-plea-to-gantz-ashkenazi-israel-and-its-friends-need-you-to-block-annexation/?utm_source=Breaking+News&utm_campaign=breaking-news-2020-06-14-2326591&utm_medium=email

   

  By Yossi Klein Halevi

  June 14, 2020

   

  Such a step, in any form, will undermine Israel’s commitment to negotiate over disputed territory and betray defenders of Zionism throughout the world

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• Opinion / Jews Welcome Evangelical Love, Money and Influence for Israel. But Call Our Christianity 'Poison'?

  
  June 29, 2020 11:36

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-jews-welcome-evangelical-support-for-israel-but-call-our-preaching-poison-1.8851383?utm_source=smartfocus&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=breaking-news&utm_content=5016207

   

  By Michael L. Brown

  Published 17.05.2020

   

  It seems disingenuous that Jewish leaders now blast fervently pro-Israel evangelicals’ faith as toxic, ugly and destructive – just because we won’t, and can’t, stop preaching to Jews

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