Common Grounds

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• ‘One system, one policy’: Why Human Rights Watch is charging Israel with apartheid

  
  April 28, 2021 11:13

  Source: +972 Magazine

  https://www.972mag.com/hrw-apartheid-persecution-omar-shakir/

   

  By Amjad Iraqi

  Published April 27, 2021

   

  Israel has made it irrefutably clear it intends to make Jewish domination over Palestinians permanent between the river and the sea, says HRW's Omar Shakir in interview following landmark report.

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• Why Biden Must Watch This Palestinian Movie

  
  April 28, 2021 10:28

  Source: The New York Times

  https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/27/opinion/biden-palestine-israel-the-present.html

   

  By John Brennan

  Published April 27, 2021

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• Accountability? Yes! Justice? A Work in Progress!

  
  April 26, 2021 13:31

  Source: NRC Amerika

  nrc.nl/amerika

   

  By Bas Blokker

  Published April 21, 2021

   

  Translated by Abraham A. van Kempen

   

  Cheers after Floyd's case ruling, but "it shouldn't end with Derek Chauvin."

   

  Police brutality! After the jury's verdict in the case against Derek Chauvin is heard in Minneapolis. President Joe Biden said that "there is still a long way to go."

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• Apartheid in Palestine and a Christ who stands on the other side of the wall

  
  May 19, 2021 13:58

  Source: Baptist News Global

  https://baptistnews.com/article/apartheid-in-palestine-and-a-christ-who-stands-on-the-other-side-of-the-wall/#.YKTeOagzZPY

   

  By Chris Conley

  Published May 13, 2021

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• Is Biden Sensitive to Growing US Criticism of Israel?

  
  May 20, 2021 12:24

  Source: NRC Amerika

  nrc.nl/amerika

   

  By Merijn de Waal

  Published May 18, 2021

   

  Translated and edited by Abraham A. van Kempen

   

   

  The conflict between Israel and the Palestinians is dominating world news - and is also occupying politics in Washington. In the meantime, the civil war in the Republican Party appears to have been resolved for the time being.

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• How will pro-Israel Evangelicals react to the post-Bibi era?

  
  June 08, 2021 14:02

  Source: The Jerusalem Post

  https://www.jpost.com/opinion/how-will-pro-israel-evangelicals-react-to-the-post-bibi-era-670370

   

  By Joel C. Rosenberg

  Published June 7, 2021

   

  They don’t know Naftali Bennett or Yair Lapid, so there is no trust yet, but it can be developed

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• Absolving empire in Palestine

  
  June 08, 2021 13:51

  Source: Aljazeera

  https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/6/4/absolving-empire-in-palestine

   

  By Ammar Rashid

  Published June 4, 2021

   

  What are the real reasons behind the US media and state institutions’ apparent pro-Israel bias?

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• Don’t mourn a coexistence that never existed

  
  June 08, 2021 13:40

  Source: Jews for Justice for Palestinians

  https://jfjfp.com/dont-mourn-a-coexistence-that-never-existed/

   

  Rami Younis writes in +972

  Published June 2, 2021

   

  After weeks of racist incitement, the Israeli media is suddenly talking about 'bringing back coexistence' — a paradise that was never even here

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• Recognize Palestine … then the negotiations can begin

  
  June 04, 2021 10:57

  Source: Arab News

  https://www.arabnews.com/node/1867501

   

  By DAOUD KUTTAB

  Published May 30, 2021

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• ‘Change’ will not change Palestine-Israel situation

  
  June 08, 2021 14:38

  Source: Gulf Today

  https://www.gulftoday.ae/opinion/2021/06/06/change-will-not-change-palestine-israel-situation

   

  By Michael Jansen

  Published June 6, 2021

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