Common Grounds

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• ‘Everyone’s a Suspect.’ Six Former Israeli Soldiers Speak

  
  November 18, 2021 11:52

  Source: The New York Times 

  https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/16/opinion/israel-palestine-idf-mission-hebron.html

   

  By Rona Segal

  Published November, 2021

   

  Director Rona Segal learned filmmaking in the Israeli army.
  Now, she turns the camera on her fellow soldiers.

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• Tell Trudeau’s Cabinet: Protect Human Rights Defenders in Palestine!

  
  November 12, 2021 11:34

  Source: Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East 

  https://www.cjpme.org/

   

  Published November 2021

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• Palestine: International community must support and protect Palestinian civil society

  
  November 12, 2021 11:08

  Source: International Service for Human Rights

  https://ishr.ch/latest-updates/palestine-the-international-community-must-support-and-protect-palestinian-civil-society/

   

  Published November 2, 2021

   

  Following the designation of six Palestinian CSO as terrorist organisations, the international community must support and protect and ensure a safe and enabling environment for Palestinian civil society and HRDs.

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• If we must talk about Rabin – let us talk about the right of return

  
  November 09, 2021 16:19

  Source: Mondoweiss

  https://mondoweiss.net/2021/11/if-we-must-talk-about-rabin-let-us-talk-about-the-right-of-return/

   

  By YAARA BENGER ALALUF 

  Published November 1, 2021

   

  Although remembered as a peacemaker, Yitzhak Rabin was one of the key perpetrators of Israel's ethnic cleansing policy.

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• Time to reimagine, recreate, restore

  
  November 12, 2021 12:19

  Source: Human Rights on behalf of Mazin Qumsiyeh

  https://www.palestinenature.org/

   

  By Mazin Qumsiyeh

  Published November 2021

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• Secret Israeli dossier provides no proof for declaring Palestinian NGOs ‘terrorists’

  
  November 12, 2021 14:25

  Source: +972 Magazine

  https://www.972mag.com/shin-bet-dossier-palestinian-ngos/

   

  By By Yuval Abraham, Oren Ziv and Meron Rapoport 

  Published November 4, 2021

   

  Israel hoped a classified Shin Bet document would convince European governments to stop funding Palestinian rights groups. +972 and Local Call got hold of the dossier's testimonies — and found no real evidence to justify Israel's claims.

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• Analysis | 'When I Take Off My Israeli Army Uniform, I'm Just Another Bedouin'

  
  November 16, 2021 15:31

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-when-i-take-off-my-israeli-army-uniform-i-m-just-another-bedouin-1.10355729?lts=1637067030767

   

  By Amos Harel

  Published November 5, 2021

   

  Despite recent Israeli steps such as recognizing Bedouin towns and providing new employment opportunities, the crime, violence and estrangement from the state remains what some call 'a national strategic problem'

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• The quiet rebellion of US Jews turning against Israel is good for Palestinians

  
  November 16, 2021 15:23

  Source: Middle East Monitor

  https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20210817-the-quiet-rebellion-of-us-jews-turning-against-israel-is-good-for-palestinians/

   

  By Ramzy Baroud

  Published August 17, 2021

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• Racial Justice Vs. The Israel Lobby: When Being Pro-Palestine Becomes the New Normal

  
  November 16, 2021 15:08

  Source: Ramzy Baroud, Politics for People

  http://www.ramzybaroud.net/racial-justice-vs-the-israel-lobby-when-being-pro-palestine-becomes-the-new-normal/?utm_content=bufferd65f8&utm_medium=social&utm_source=

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  By Ramzy Baroud

  Published October 6, 2021

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• Do China and Russia want to replace the US as mediators in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?

  
  December 02, 2021 14:03

  Source: Atlantic Council

  https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/menasource/do-china-and-russia-want-to-replace-the-us-as-mediators-in-the-israeli-palestinian-conflict/

   

  By Richard LeBaron, Mohamed Bin Huwaidin, Daniel Rakov, Jonathan Fulton, and Joze Pelayo

  Published May 21, 2021

   

  This article is part of a strategic collaboration launched by the Atlantic Council (Washington, DC), the Emirates Policy Center (Abu Dhabi), and the Institute for National Security Studies (Tel Aviv). The authors are associated with the initiative’s Working Group on Chinese and Russian Power Projection in the Middle East. The views expressed by the authors are theirs and not their institutions’.

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