Common Grounds

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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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• 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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• 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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• Seven Black Swans in the Middle East

  
  March 02, 2021 12:26

  Source: Mosaic

  https://mosaicmagazine.com/observation/politics-current-affairs/2019/09/seven-black-swans-in-the-middle-east/

   

  By MARTIN KRAMER

  Published September 24, 2019

   

  From the Yom Kippur War to the Arab Spring, events considered impossible happen in the Middle East with unusual frequency. Here are seven; when will the eighth appear?

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• Trump's gifts, Biden's promises, Netanyahu's wishes

  
  February 25, 2021 14:37

  Source: Daily Sabah

  https://www.dailysabah.com/opinion/op-ed/trumps-gifts-bidens-promises-netanyahus-wishes

   

  BY NAJLA M. SHAHWAN

  Published February 23, 2021

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• Opinion | A Dirty but Effective Way to Start Ending the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

  
  February 22, 2021 14:08

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/.premium.HIGHLIGHT-a-dirty-but-effective-way-to-start-ending-the-israeli-palestinian-conflict-1.9550846?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=daily-brief&utm_content=38628aeb2c&lts=1613747321381

   

  By Anshel Pfeffer

  Published February 18, 2021

   

  Trump’s deal is dead, Biden is busy, the far right dreams of annexation and the far left of BDS, the peace process industry is engrossed in its fantasies. But there’s a practical, unglamorous way to make life better for two million Israelis and Palestinians

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• Was Jesus a Zionist? (continued)

  
  February 19, 2021 11:16

  Source: www.christianzionism.org

  https://www.christianzionism.org/en/was-jesus-zionist

   

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