Common Grounds

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• Opinion | A President in Handcuffs: Why Palestinians Should Vote for Barghouti

  
  April 06, 2021 15:20

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium.HIGHLIGHT-a-president-in-handcuffs-why-palestinians-should-vote-for-barghouti-1.9671926?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=daily-brief&utm_content=b6903cb670

   

  By Gideon Levy

  Published March 31, 2021

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• Against economic absolutism

  
  April 02, 2021 11:17

  Source: Fortune

  https://fortune.com/2021/03/31/against-economic-absolutism-socialism-vs-capitalism-ceo-daily/

   

  By DAVID MEYER

  Published March 31, 2021

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• Biden Details $2 Trillion Plan to Rebuild Infrastructure and Reshape the Economy

  
  April 02, 2021 10:47

  Source: The New York Times

  https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/31/business/economy/biden-infrastructure-plan.html?campaign_id=9&emc=edit_nn_20210401&instance_id=28723&nl=the-morning&regi_id=69909790&segment_id=54658&te=1&user_id=

  f9c06872cc476fdf04233a4c100d7930

   

  By Jim Tankersley

  Published March 31, 2021

   

  The president began selling his proposal on Wednesday, saying it would fix 20,000 miles of roads and 10,000 bridges, while also addressing climate change and racial inequities and raising corporate taxes.

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• The Evangelical Pope – Children the Center of Christianity

  
  March 29, 2021 11:18

  Living Words from John Paul II

  Edited by Abraham A. van Kempen

   

  Published Sunday, March 28, 2021

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• Lucky for Fox Trump No Longer President

  
  March 26, 2021 12:01

  Source: NRC Amerika

  nrc.nl/amerika

   

  By Bas Blokker

  Published March 23, 2021

   

  Translated and edited by Abraham A. van Kempen

   

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  Fascinating to see how the roles have simply turned. A Democratic government keeps the press away from sheltering migrant children, and a Republican governor worried about a corona outbreak in the shelter.

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• The ICC probe into Palestine: where is the EU?

  
  March 30, 2021 12:35

  Source: EUobserver

  https://euobserver.com/opinion/151359

   

  By RASMUS ALENIUS BOSERUP

  Published March 30, 2021

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• Balfour Project newsletter: new definition of Antisemitism

  
  March 31, 2021 11:56

  Source: Balfour Project

  https://balfourproject.org/category/current/news/

   

  Published March 30, 2021

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• How Israeli rights groups prevent Palestinians from framing their own reality

  
  April 01, 2021 15:43

  Source: Source: Jews for Justice for Palestinians (JFJFP)

  https://jfjfp.com/how-israeli-rights-groups-prevent-palestinians-from-framing-their-own-reality/

   

  Haneen Maikey and Lana Tatour write in Middle East Eye:

  Published April 1, 2021

   

  Imbued in the settler-colonial system, Israeli human rights organisations appear to view Palestinians as little more than a raw data source, while Jewish staff set the agenda

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• To a Leading Critic, Both American-Jewish and Israeli Literature Express Deep Ambivalences

  
  April 01, 2021 13:25

  Source: Mosaic

  https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/arts-culture/2021/03/to-a-leading-critic-both-american-jewish-and-israeli-literature-express-deep-ambivalences/

   

  Published March 31, 2021

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• The US media is touting Israel’s Covid recovery. But occupied Palestinians are left out

  
  April 13, 2021 14:44

  Source: Jewish Voice for Peace

  https://jfjfp.com/the-us-media-is-touting-israels-covid-recovery-but-occupied-palestinians-are-left-out/

   

  Published April 12, 2021

  Yara M Asi reports in The Guardian Fri 9 Apr 2021

   

  Instead of vaccinating Palestinians, Benjamin Netanyahu tried to send thousands of doses around the world as rewards to countries that moved their embassies to Jerusalem

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