Common Grounds

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• What’s Next for Christian Zionists?

  
  July 20, 2021 23:52

  Source: Foreign Policy

  https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/07/19/christian-zionists-israel-trump-netanyahu-evangelicals/

   

  By Colum Lynch
  Published July 19, 2021

   

  The backbone of Israel’s support in the United States is a group of evangelical Christians, but their power is threatened by the changing of the political guard.

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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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• Palestinians welcome Ben and Jerry’s decision; claims of antisemitism rejected

  
  July 21, 2021 15:18

  Source: Arab News

  https://www.arabnews.com/node/1897696/middle-east

   

  By DAOUD KUTTAB

  Published July 21, 2021

   

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• Israel’s PM is playing with fire on the Temple Mount

  
  July 22, 2021 13:46

  Source: The Times of Israel

  https://www.timesofisrael.com/playing-with-fire-on-the-temple-mount/?utm_source=The+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=daily-edition-2021-07-19&utm_medium=email

   

  By DAVID HOROVITZ 

  Published July 19, 2021

   

  Bennett hailed ‘freedom of Jewish worship’ at the religious hotspot, a day after TV footage showed Jews at prayer there. Then he backtracked, anonymously. This is no way to govern

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• Analysis | America Is Losing Its 'Leader of the Free World' Mantle. That's Bad News for Israel

  
  July 26, 2021 13:21

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-america-is-losing-its-leader-of-the-free-world-mantle-that-s-bad-news-for-israel-1.10030871?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=haaretz-news&utm_content=111950d2cc

   

  By Alon Pinkas

  Published July 25, 2021

   

  For the past five years, the U.S. has been regarded a ‘flawed democracy.’ Unless it can resolve its internal problems, the rest of the world will lose faith in American leadership. That would be a problem for U.S. allies like Israel

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• The Gospel According to Q

  
  August 03, 2021 14:20

  Source: Project Syndicate

  https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/qanon-conspiracy-theories-connection-to-america-s-religious-right-by-nina-l-khrushcheva-2021-07?

   

  By NINA L. KHRUSHCHEVA

  Published July 29, 2021

   

  According to Lord Acton, religious leaders should be held to a higher moral standard than ordinary people. Future historians should bear that advice in mind when assessing America’s religious right and its current leaders.

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• Does Israel-Palestine need any ‘state’ solution?

  
  August 03, 2021 15:21

  Source: Jews for Justice for Palestinians

  https://jfjfp.com/does-israel-palestine-need-any-state-solution/

   

  Diana B. Greenwald writes in +972 on 28 July, 2021

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• If no more two-state solution, then what? - opinion

  
  August 17, 2021 13:41

  Source: The Jerusalem Post

  https://www.jpost.com/opinion/if-no-more-two-state-solution-then-what-opinion-676472

   

  By GERSHON BASKIN 

  Published: August 12, 2021

   

  ENCOUNTERING PEACE: THIS IS not a shallow argument of one state or two states; the political solutions of the future will probably be much more complex.

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• Beyond Business as Usual in Israel-Palestine

  
  August 17, 2021 13:30

  Source: The International Crisis Group

  https://www.crisisgroup.org/middle-east-north-africa/east-mediterranean-mena/israelpalestine/225-beyond-business-usual-israel-palestine

   

  Published August 10, 2021

   

  The latest escalation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict brought important shifts in the status quo, underscoring the necessity of a political settlement. A peace based on equal respect for both peoples’ rights will take time, however. Steps to lower the temperature are urgent in the interim.

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• Liberal Zionism is dying. Will foregoing the Jewish state save it?

  
  August 17, 2021 15:01

  Source: Jews for Justice for Palestinians

  https://jfjfp.com/liberal-zionism-is-dying-will-foregoing-the-jewish-state-save-it/

   

  Shaul Magid wries a book review in +972

  Published August 16, 2021

   

  A new book calls for Zionism to be re-envisioned as a binational project in order to shed Jewish historical trauma and salvage democratic values.

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