Common Grounds

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• Is Inflation Alive?

  
  March 04, 2021 19:28

  Source: Project Syndicate

  https://www.project-syndicate.org/bigpicture/is-inflation-alive?utm_source=Project%20Syndicate%20Newsletter&utm_campaign=3babda6500-covid_newsletter_03_04_2021&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_73bad5b7d8-3babda6500-93791313&mc_cid=3babda6500&mc_eid=284f1f0e24

   

  Published March 3, 2021

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• Opinion | ‘Dead Goyim Leg’: NBC's 'Antisemitic' TV Clip Is More Accurate Than We’d Like to Admit

  
  March 08, 2021 21:57

  Source Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-dead-goyim-leg-antisemitic-tv-clip-more-accurate-than-we-d-like-to-admit-1.9597514?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=haaretz-news&utm_content=4b140a06ac

   

  By Robby Berman

  Published March 3, 2012

   

  The outrage over the portrayal of an ultra-Orthodox family refusing a transplant from a non-Jew is hollow when so many Orthodox Jews hold racist attitudes towards gentiles and refuse to donate organs to them

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• Exultant Crowds Gather for Pope's Erbil Mass, Despite Coronavirus Concerns

  
  March 08, 2021 22:05

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/iraq/exultant-crowds-gather-for-pope-s-erbil-mass-despite-coronavirus-concerns-1.9598261?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=haaretz-news&utm_content=4b140a06ac

   

  Reuters

  Published March 7, 2021

   

  The Mass in the autonomous Kurdish region is the pope's first engagement in his visit to Iraq, and local Christians have been eagerly awaiting it: 'We hope that he brings peace to Iraq and social harmony and an end to wars'

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• Intense preparations before pontiff meets Iraqi ayatollah

  
  March 08, 2021 22:40

  Source: CHRON

  https://www.chron.com/news/article/Intense-preparation-paves-way-for-pontiff-to-meet-15995920.php

   

  By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and SAMYA KULLAB, Associated Press

  Published March 3, 2021

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• Opinion | Picture Israeli Labor Party Leader Michaeli in Prison

  
  March 08, 2021 22:29

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-picture-israeli-labor-party-leader-michaeli-in-prison-1.9596277?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=breaking-news&utm_content=a89eb682c1

   

  By Gideon Levy

  Published March 6, 2021

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• ICC announces investigation into Israeli, Palestinian war crimes

  
  March 04, 2021 12:11

  Source: The Times of Israel

  https://www.timesofisrael.com/icc-announces-investigation-into-israeli-palestinian-war-crimes/?utm_source=The+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=daily-edition-2021-03-03&utm_medium=email

   

  By LAZAR BERMAN 

  Published March 3, 2021

   

  Chief Prosecutor Bensouda promises to investigate ‘impartially and objectively’; her look back starts from the day after 3 Israeli teens were murdered in West Bank in 2014

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• U.S. 'Firmly Opposed' to ICC War Crimes Probe That 'Targets Israel Unfairly'

  
  March 04, 2021 11:47

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-u-s-firmly-opposed-to-icc-war-crimes-probe-that-targets-israel-unfairly-1.9587871

   

  By Ben Samuels

  Published March 3, 2021

   

  State Department argues the International Criminal Court 'has no jurisdiction' over the Palestinian territories, after prosecutor's statement that was hailed by Palestinian leadership and denounced by Israel

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• 10-20 American mouthpieces for Israeli government had unrivaled access to Obama White House — Rhodes

  
  February 26, 2021 12:20

  Source: Mondoweiss

  https://mondoweiss.net/2021/02/10-20-american-mouthpieces-for-israeli-government-had-unrivaled-access-to-obama-white-house-rhodes/

   

  BY PHILIP WEISS  

  Published February 24, 2021

   

  White House officials have to go to the Israel lobby AIPAC conference, but if they meet with Arab-Americans 'you can get into trouble,' former deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes says.

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• Noam Chomsky: Solidarity movements key to changing US Middle East policy

  
  February 25, 2021 15:05

  Source: +972 Magazine

  https://www.972mag.com/noam-chomsky-middle-east-israel/

   

  By Lilach Ben David 

  Published February 17, 2021

   

  From nuclear disarmament to Palestinian rights, Noam Chomsky discusses the need to disrupt authoritarian alliances and an entrenching 'Greater Israel.'

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• Remember the Marshall Plan … Debating Biden’s Stimulus Plan

  
  February 26, 2021 12:55

  By: Abraham A. van Kempen, Editor

   

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