Common Grounds

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• Biden and the Fed Leave 1970s Inflation Fears Behind

  
  February 18, 2021 12:49

  Source: The New York Times

  https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/15/business/economy/biden-fed-inflation-covid.html?campaign_id=9&emc=edit_nn_20210215&instance_id=27155&nl=the-morning&regi_id=146080032&segment_id=51724&te=1&user_id=e

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  By Jim Tankersley and Jeanna Smialek

  Published February 15, 2021

   

  Administration and Fed officials argue that workers not getting enough stimulus help is a larger concern than potential spikes in consumer prices.

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• The Seven Secrets of 2020

  
  February 18, 2021 13:07

  Source: Project Syndicate

  https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/seven-secrets-revealed-by-2020-by-yanis-varoufakis-2020-12?barrier=accesspaylog

   

  By YANIS VAROUFAKIS

  Published December 28, 2020

   

  This year has resembled a rapidly receding tide, forcing us to confront submerged truths. One lesson we learned in 2020 is that national governments had been choosing not to exercise their enormous powers so that those whom globalization had enriched could exercise their own.

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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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• Blinken tells Israel: Palestinians should enjoy same rights, freedoms as you do

  
  April 06, 2021 14:57

  Source: The Times of Israel

  https://www.timesofisrael.com/blinken-tells-israel-palestinians-should-enjoy-same-rights-freedoms-as-you-do/?utm_source=The+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=daily-edition-2021-04-03&utm_medium=email

   

  By AFP and TOI STAFF

  Published April 3, 2021

   

  US secretary of state to Foreign Minister Ashkenazi: ‘Israelis and Palestinians should enjoy equal measures of freedom, security, prosperity and democracy’

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• Israel is losing the fight to obscure its apartheid character

  
  April 06, 2021 14:35

  Source: Middle East Eye

  https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israel-losing-fight-obscure-its-apartheid-character

   

  By Jonathan Cook

  Published January 14, 2021

   

  New report by rights group B'Tselem will make it harder to smear Israel's critics as antisemites for arguing that Israel is a racist state

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• William Barber preaches at Easter vigil service spotlighting Christian Palestinians

  
  April 07, 2021 10:24

  Source: Religion News Service

  https://religionnews.com/2021/04/06/william-barber-preaches-at-easter-vigil-service-acknowledging-christian-palestinians/

   

  By Daoud Kuttab

  Published April 6, 2021

   

  Barber’s appearance served to recognize Christians in the Palestinian liberation movement, which some American evangelicals paint as an apocalyptic conflict between Christians and Muslims.

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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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• The Three-State Solution

  
  April 13, 2021 15:32

  Source: Tablet

  https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/three-state-solution-benjamin-kerstein-peace-israel-palestine

   

  By BENJAMIN KERSTEIN

  Published March 23, 2021

   

  The two-state solution has been dead for decades. A one-state solution frightens Israelis and Palestinians alike. Is three the magic number for peace?

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• Why I left the cult

  
  April 13, 2021 15:16

  Source: Mondoweiss

  https://mondoweiss.net/2016/10/why-i-left-the-cult/

   

  By AVIGAIL ABARBANEL 

  Published October 8, 2016

   

                      All changed, changed utterly:
                      A terrible beauty is born.
                      –From Easter, 1916, by WB Yeats

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• Rabbi Alissa Wise’s love letter to anti-Zionist Jews, as she leaves ten years’ work with Jewish Voice for Peace

  
  April 06, 2021 13:46

  Source: Jewish Voice for Peace

  https://jewish-voice-for-peace.medium.com/rabbi-alissa-wises-love-letter-to-anti-zionist-jews-as-she-leaves-ten-years-work-with-jvp-d04776df54ff

   

  Published March 24, 2021

   

  We are not one thing, but we are — you are — everything

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