Common Grounds

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• For Palestinians, From Hebron to Nablus, Annexation Is Already Here. A Journey Through the West Bank

  
  June 30, 2020 22:46

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.MAGAZINE-for-palestinians-from-hebron-to-nablus-annexation-is-already-here-1.8959494?utm_source=smartfocus&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter-haaretz&utm_content=5016719

   

  By Anshel Pfeffer

  Published 30.06.2020

   

  With the world holding its breath to see what Netanyahu will do on annexation, Haaretz meets Palestinians across the West Bank to hear their divergent views on what the future holds. For many, one thing is certain: It doesn’t matter if you call it occupation or annexation, Palestinian Authority or Palestinian state

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• Netanyahu's annexation plan is a sham. Apartheid has been decades in the making

  
  July 07, 2020 12:52

  Source: Middle East Eye

  https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israel-annexation-plan-masks-regime-ethnic-cleansing

   

  By Richard Silverstein

  Published 24 June 2020

   

  Proposed annexation is a red herring, relieving liberal Zionists of responsibility for Israel's broader apartheid system and ongoing Palestinian suffering

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• Recognizing the state of Palestine is the only appropriate response to Israeli annexation

  
  July 09, 2020 13:21

  Source: The Washington Post

  https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/07/02/recognizing-state-palestine-is-only-appropriate-response-israeli-annexation/

   

  Opinion by Ilan Goldenberg

  Published July 2, 2020

   

  Ilan Goldenberg is the director of the Middle East Security Program at the Center for a New American Security; he served on the State Department negotiating team on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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• What Americans think about the looming Israeli annexation and Trump’s Middle East plan

  
  July 10, 2020 14:25

  Source: Brookings

  https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2020/06/29/what-americans-think-about-the-looming-israeli-annexation-and-trumps-middle-east-plan/

   

  By Shibley Telhami

  Published June 29, 2020

   

  Israel’s annexation of occupied West Bank territories is now looming, a move that U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres has said would be a “most serious violation of international law.” In fact, President Trump’s so-called Israeli-Palestinian peace plan proposed such a move. The Trump administration plan also purports to offer a Palestinian “state,” but the proposed entity hardly bears resemblance to states as we have known them: Palestinians would rule over about 70% of the occupied territories, in fragmented sections connected through passages, with no control over security, borders, air, territorial waters, or alliances with states. After reviewing Trump’s offer, 50 former European leaders described it as akin to apartheid. Not surprisingly, the Palestinians quickly dismissed it. This then opened the way for Trump to possibly back Israel’s unilateral implementation of aspects of the plan, including annexation, that could take place as early as the beginning of July.

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• Good news from Washington: AIPAC, Israel losing to progressive Democrats

  
  July 15, 2020 12:16

  Source: Middle East Monitor

  https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20200714-good-news-from-washington-aipac-israel-losing-to-progressive-democrats/

   

  
  By Ramzy Baroud

  Published July 14, 2020

  
   
  While the US administration of President Donald Trump remains adamant in its support for Israel, the traditional democratic leadership continues to employ underhanded language, the kind of ‘strategic ambiguity’ that offers full support to Israel and nothing but lip service to Palestine and peace.

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• Time’s Up Israel

  
  July 16, 2020 14:49

  Get your knee off Palestine’s neck!

   

  Source: medium.com

  https://medium.com/@sbahour/times-up-israel-d88b4dd575e9

   

  By Sam Bahour

  Published 14 July 2020

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• Is Israel Uniquely Evil?

  
  July 21, 2020 16:17

  Source: Jews for Justice for Palestinians

  https://jfjfp.com/is-israel-uniquely-evil/

   

  Irfan Chowdhury  

  The Palestine Chronicle

  July 18, 2020

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• Annexation was always on Israel’s agenda

  
  July 24, 2020 12:41

  Source: Jews for Justice for Palestinians

  https://jfjfp.com/annexation-was-always-on-israels-agenda/

   

  Rajko Kolundzic

  The Electric Intifada

   

  Published  17 July 2020

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• Liberal Zionism begins to make the journey towards a one-state solution

  
  July 24, 2020 13:04

  Source: Middle East Eye

  https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-peter-beinart-jewish-state-renounced-liberal-zionists

   

  By Jonathan Cook

  Publsihed 17 July 2020 

   

  Peter Beinart, a bellwether for American Jews, has provoked a storm by renouncing the two-state solution and urging equality for all

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• The forgotten history of the Jewish, anti-Zionist left

  
  July 29, 2020 12:24

  Source: Jews for Justice for Palestinians

  https://jfjfp.com/the-forgotten-history-of-the-jewish-anti-zionist-left/

   

  Interview in In these times, Tue 21 Jul 2020

  By Sarah Lazare

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