Common Grounds

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• The Old Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Is Dead—Long Live the Emerging Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

  
  May 11, 2021 11:41

  Source: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

  https://carnegieendowment.org/2021/05/05/old-israeli-palestinian-conflict-is-dead-long-live-emerging-israeli-palestinian-conflict-pub-84457

   

  By Nathan J. Brown

  Published My 5, 2021

   

  The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has become deeply ingrained in daily life. Work must begin now to heal deep-seated divisions, which are not likely to be resolved in a burst of diplomacy.

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• ‘Equality’ is finally breaching Washington’s debate on Israel-Palestine

  
  May 11, 2021 14:57

  Source: +972 Magazine

  https://www.972mag.com/carnegie-usmep-israel-palestine/

   

  By Mitchell Plitnick

  Published May 6, 2021

   

  A policy paper centering equal rights for both peoples marks a radical break from the Israel-centric discourse of mainstream U.S. think tanks.

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• Israel Should Focus on Evangelicals, Not U.S. Jews Who Are More Critical, Dermer Says

  
  May 11, 2021 15:07

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-israel-should-focus-outreach-on-evangelicals-not-u-s-jews-former-envoy-says-1.9790303

   

  By Sam Sokol

  Published May 10, 2021

   

  Deciding to focus on strengthening relationship with evangelicals at the expense of the Jewish community is a numbers game, says ex-Israeli envoy to D.C. Ron Dermer

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• America, Human Rights, and Israel’s War on Palestine

  
  June 01, 2021 13:56

  Source: Project Syndicate

  https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/biden-must-uphold-palestinian-human-rights-in-israel-by-jeffrey-d-sachs-2021-05

   

  By JEFFREY D. SACHS

  Published May 25, 2021

   

  Human rights are human rights, and they are part of international law under the UN Charter. Whether the case is Xinjiang and the Uighurs, Myanmar and the Rohingya, or Israel and the Palestinian Arabs, the correct way to defend international law is through the United Nations, starting with an independent investigation under the auspices of the UN Human Rights Council.

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• Why Israel’s leadership change might benefit Palestinians

  
  June 15, 2021 17:08

  Source: Arab News

  https://www.arabnews.com/node/1876601

   

  By DAOUD KUTTAB

  Published June 14, 2021

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• Netanyahu may have won America, but he has lost Israel

  
  June 15, 2021 15:49

  Source: Middle East Monitor

  https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20210615-netanyahu-may-have-won-america-but-he-has-lost-israel/

   
  By Dr Ramzy Baroud

  Published June 15, 2021

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• The Evangelical Pope | One World Religion? MANY!

  
  June 21, 2021 13:04

  Living Words from John Paul II

  Edited by Abraham A. van Kempen

   

  Published Sunday, June 20, 2021

   

                 "… Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. (1 John 4: 16)

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• It’s time for a new approach – The International Centre of Justice for Palestinians

  
  June 22, 2021 19:07

  Source: Jews for Justice for Palestinians

  https://jfjfp.com/israel-palestine-offering-concern-solves-nothing-its-time-for-a-new-approach/

   

  Crispin Blunt writes in Middle East Eye

  Published June 21, 2021

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• Between the Holocaust and the Nakba, Two Histories – and Maybe a Shared Future

  
  June 22, 2021 19:27

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.HIGHLIGHT.MAGAZINE-between-the-holocaust-and-the-nakba-two-histories-and-maybe-a-shared-future-1.9915571

   

  By David B. Green

  Published June 18, 2021

   

  Israeli professors Bashir Bashir and Amos Goldberg propose an original way of relating to these historical events that just might offer a new path toward ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

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• Top evangelical leader warns: Israel could lose our support if Netanyahu ousted

  
  June 09, 2021 12:31

  Source: The Times of Israel

  https://www.timesofisrael.com/top-evangelical-leader-warns-israel-could-lose-our-support-if-netanyahu-ousted/?utm_source=The+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=daily-edition-2021-06-08&utm_medium=email

   

  By TOI STAFF

  Published June 8, 2021

   

  Mike Evans says his 77 million followers will ‘go into the opposition’ with Netanyahu; decries coalition that seeks to replace PM as anti-Zionists who’ll surrender to radical Islam

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