Common Grounds

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• Top evangelical leader warns: Israel could lose our support if Netanyahu ousted

  
  June 09, 2021 12:31

  Source: The Times of Israel

  https://www.timesofisrael.com/top-evangelical-leader-warns-israel-could-lose-our-support-if-netanyahu-ousted/?utm_source=The+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=daily-edition-2021-06-08&utm_medium=email

   

  By TOI STAFF

  Published June 8, 2021

   

  Mike Evans says his 77 million followers will ‘go into the opposition’ with Netanyahu; decries coalition that seeks to replace PM as anti-Zionists who’ll surrender to radical Islam

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• Why Israel’s leadership change might benefit Palestinians

  
  June 15, 2021 17:08

  Source: Arab News

  https://www.arabnews.com/node/1876601

   

  By DAOUD KUTTAB

  Published June 14, 2021

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• Netanyahu may have won America, but he has lost Israel

  
  June 15, 2021 15:49

  Source: Middle East Monitor

  https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20210615-netanyahu-may-have-won-america-but-he-has-lost-israel/

   
  By Dr Ramzy Baroud

  Published June 15, 2021

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• Bibi’s Poisoned Legacy

  
  June 11, 2021 12:03

  Source: Project Syndicate 

  https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/netanyahu-ousted-legacy-by-shlomo-ben-ami-2021-06

   

  By SHLOMO BEN-AMI

  Published June 9, 2021

   

  After 12 years with Binyamin Netanyahu in power, Israel is more divided than it has ever been, and Israelis have largely lost hope that their country can be both Jewish and democratic. Can the new government, united only by its aversion to the country's longest-serving prime minister, push back against this legacy?

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• America, Human Rights, and Israel’s War on Palestine

  
  June 01, 2021 13:56

  Source: Project Syndicate

  https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/biden-must-uphold-palestinian-human-rights-in-israel-by-jeffrey-d-sachs-2021-05

   

  By JEFFREY D. SACHS

  Published May 25, 2021

   

  Human rights are human rights, and they are part of international law under the UN Charter. Whether the case is Xinjiang and the Uighurs, Myanmar and the Rohingya, or Israel and the Palestinian Arabs, the correct way to defend international law is through the United Nations, starting with an independent investigation under the auspices of the UN Human Rights Council.

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• Analysis | Israel Gave Up Sovereignty in Arab Cities. Everyone Paid the Price

  
  June 01, 2021 13:46

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.HIGHLIGHT-israel-gave-up-sovereignty-in-arab-cities-everyone-paid-the-price-1.9851992

   

  By Amos Harel

  Published May 28, 2021

   

  The Jewish-Arab violence inside Israel surprised officials even more than the Gaza flare-up. And Netanyahu's vision of soldiers in Israeli cities is still on the table

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• Jewish groups that aid Israel’s war crimes can’t deny all responsibility for those crimes

  
  May 25, 2021 15:53

  Source: Mondoweiss

  https://mondoweiss.net/2021/05/jewish-groups-that-aid-israels-war-crimes-cant-deny-all-responsibility-for-those-crimes/

   

  By JONATHAN COOK 

  Published MAay 24, 2021

   

  Israel’s apologists – whether Jewish or not – cannot deny all responsibility for Israel’s war crimes when they actively aid and abet those crimes.

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• Opinion: Zionism cannot produce a just peace. Only external pressure can end the Israeli apartheid.

  
  May 25, 2021 15:34

  Source: The Washington Post

  https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/05/20/israel-gaza-war-zionism-apartheid-injustice-pressure/

   

  Opinion by Raphael Mimoun

  Published May 20, 2021 

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• Jews and Arabs Share Recent Ancestry

  
  May 24, 2021 12:01

  Source: Science

  https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2000/10/jews-and-arabs-share-recent-ancestry

   

  By Ann Gibbons

  Published October 30, 2000

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• Support for Israel among young US evangelical Christians drops sharply — survey

  
  May 25, 2021 16:12

  Source: The Times of Israel

  https://www.timesofisrael.com/support-for-israel-among-young-us-evangelicals-drops-sharply-survey/

   

  By JACOB MAGID

  Published May 25, 2021

   

  Since 2018, backing for Israel dropped from 75% to 33%; nearly half of evangelicals aged 18-29 say they favor establishment of Palestinian state, voted for Biden over Trump

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