Common Grounds

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• The America that Israel and Palestine Need

  
  July 20, 2021 11:38

  Source: Project Syndicate

  https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/israel-palestine-conflict-needs-more-balanced-us-approach-by-mohamed-elbaradei-2021-07

   

  By MOHAMED ELBARADEI

  Published July 16, 2021

   

  Joe Biden promised to make democracy and human rights central to US foreign policy. But that means not insisting on Israel’s right to defend itself without mentioning its expansion of settlements in occupied Palestinian territory, its policy of discrimination, and its denial of the Palestinians’ right to an independent state.

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• Evangelical support for Israel is neither permanent nor inevitable

  
  July 20, 2021 23:44

  Source: The Conversation

  https://theconversation.com/evangelical-support-for-israel-is-neither-permanent-nor-inevitable-164209

   

  Published July 19, 2021

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• Palestine’s Struggle to Create Its Unique Narrative

  
  July 20, 2021 23:26

  Source: Governing

  https://www.governing.com/context/palestines-struggle-to-create-its-unique-narrative

   

  By Clay S. Jenkinson

  Published July 20, 2021

   

  America has had resounding success in telling the story of its birth and rise as a nation. So too has Israel during the 20th century. Now, Palestine must do the same if it wants to succeed, says Middle East scholar Rashid Khalidi.

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• Opinion | Should Jews Fear Fanatically pro-Israel, Philosemitic U.S. Evangelicals?

  
  July 16, 2021 10:42

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-should-jews-fear-fanatically-pro-israel-philosemitic-u-s-evangelicals-1.9911159

   

  By Judah Isseroff

  Published June 16, 2021

   

  For Jews, what is more offensive – and more threatening? Today’s philosemitic Evangelicals, some with their venomous takes on Israel's new government, or yesteryear’s Christian theological antisemitism?

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• Why does everyone want Jerusalem? CNN investigates in a new docuseries

  
  July 15, 2021 11:16

  Source: The Forward

  https://forward.com/culture/472875/jerusalem-city-of-faith-and-fury-cnn-docuseries-mcgregor-palestinian/?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=campaign_2522576

   

  By PJ Grisar

  Published July 13, 2021 

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• Ilan Pappe - The JNF's Role in the Nakba

  
  July 12, 2021 14:37

  Source: YouTube

  https://mail.google.com/mail/ca/u/0/?shva=1&zx=h5ngnpngz4cs#inbox/FMfcgzGkZGpdjWKNmBgxlqdpxSgzSFMV?projector=1

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• Break the fear barrier and speak up for Palestine

  
  July 08, 2021 13:47

  Source: Al Jazeera

  https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/5/11/break-the-fear-barrier-and-speak-up-for-palestine

   

  By Mark Muhannad Ayyash

  Published May 11, 2021

   

  Saying the Palestinian issue is ‘complex’ is no excuse for not speaking up against Israeli crimes.

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• On Memory, Justice, and the Bones of Indigenous Children

  
  July 13, 2021 14:14

  Source: Palestine Chronicle

  https://www.palestinechronicle.com/on-memory-justice-and-the-bones-of-indigenous-children/

   

  By Benay Blend

  Published July 5, 2021

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• Americans' Religion and Their Sympathies in the Middle East

  
  June 15, 2021 17:39

  Source: Gallup

  https://news.gallup.com/opinion/polling-matters/350435/americans-religion-sympathies-middle-east.aspx

   

  By FRANK NEWPORT

  Published May 28, 2021

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• An American Kingdom

  
  July 14, 2021 13:26

  Source: The Washington Post

  https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/07/11/mercy-culture-church/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most&carta-url=https://s2.washingtonpost.com/car-ln-tr/3420f98/60ec673c9d2fda8060034242/597682b5ae7e8a6816d78e2c/9/70/60ec673c9d2fda8060034242

   

  By Stephanie McCrummen

  Published July 11, 2021

   

  A new and rapidly growing Christian movement is openly political, wants a nation under God’s authority, and is central to Donald Trump’s GOP

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