Common Grounds

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• Decoding the extremist symbols and groups at the Capitol Hill insurrection

  
  January 10, 2021 22:44

  Source: CNN

  https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/09/us/capitol-hill-insurrection-extremist-flags-soh/index.html

   

  Story by Mallory Simon and Sara Sidner, CNN
  Photo Illustrations by Priya Krishnakumar, CNN

  Updated January 10, 2021

   

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• The terrifying marriage of convenience between Israel and evangelical Zionists

  
  January 08, 2021 13:58

  Source: Forward

  https://forward.com/culture/459497/the-terrifying-marriage-of-convenience-between-jews-and-evangelical/

   

  By PJ Grisar

  Published December 2, 2020

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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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• 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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• The People v. Bill Gates

  
  May 06, 2021 13:29

  Source: London Review of Books

  https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2021/may/the-people-v.-bill-gates?utm_campaign=20210504blog&utm_content=20210504blog%20CID_5287d0a6678dc7688a

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  By Linsey McGoey

  Published May 4, 2021

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• Is Israeli-Palestinian confederation all it’s hyped up to be?

  
  May 05, 2021 14:45

  Source: Jews for Justice for Palestinians

  https://jfjfp.com/is-israeli-palestinian-confederation-all-its-hyped-up-to-be/

   

  Published May 4, 2021

  Shira Efron and Evan Gottesman write in +972

   

  While it is fair to critique the viability of a two-state or one-state solution, the ambitious confederation model risks failing for the same reasons.

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• On Faith: Bernie is right on Israel

  
  May 04, 2021 16:56

  Source: Rutland Herald

  https://www.rutlandherald.com/opinion/perspective/on-faith-bernie-is-right-on-israel/article_b039ae60-bb67-5c15-881d-298aff7b6e4e.html

   

  By John Nassivera

  Published May1, 2021

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• International law sides with Palestinian refugees. But can it solve their plight?

  
  May 04, 2021 16:46

  Source: +972 Magazine

  https://www.972mag.com/palestinian-refugees-international-law-review/

   

  By Sam Bahour 

  Published May 2, 2021

   

  A new book dives into the myriad laws that protect Palestinian refugees and their right of return. Its proposed solution, though, may be hard to swallow.

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• Analysis | Jerusalem Has All the Ingredients for a New Intifada - but So Far It Hasn't Happened

  
  May 10, 2021 14:57

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.HIGHLIGHT-jerusalem-has-all-the-ingredients-for-a-new-intifada-but-so-far-it-hasn-t-happened-1.9788002

   

  By Anshel Pfeffer

  Published May 9, 2021

   

  The confluence of events in Jerusalem over the past few weeks has turned the city into a powder keg once more, with aggressive policing from inexperienced leaders one of the main culprits. But that doesn't mean a third intifada is now inevitable

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• The Old Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Is Dead—Long Live the Emerging Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

  
  May 11, 2021 11:41

  Source: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

  https://carnegieendowment.org/2021/05/05/old-israeli-palestinian-conflict-is-dead-long-live-emerging-israeli-palestinian-conflict-pub-84457

   

  By Nathan J. Brown

  Published My 5, 2021

   

  The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has become deeply ingrained in daily life. Work must begin now to heal deep-seated divisions, which are not likely to be resolved in a burst of diplomacy.

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