Common Grounds

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• Israeli authorities are authorizing 3,144 new squatter dwellings on Palestinian land

  
  October 29, 2021 12:22

  Friday's message by Rev. Sandra R Mackie

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• Israeli moves in the West Bank cause new frictions with Biden administration

  
  October 29, 2021 12:07

  Source:The Washington Post

  https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/israel-settlements-coalition-politics/2021/10/28/6acf55d8-373b-11ec-9662-399cfa75efee_story.html

   

  By Steve Hendrix and Shira Rubin

  Published October 28, 2021

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• Opinion | Only the World Can End the Israeli Occupation. It Won't Come From Bennett

  
  October 05, 2021 19:00

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-only-the-world-can-end-the-israeli-occupation-it-won-t-come-from-bennett-1.10252745

   

  By Rogel Alpher

  Published September 30,2021

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• No, The Bible Doesn’t Command We “Stand With Israel”

  
  October 18, 2021 12:36

  Source: Patheos

  https://www.patheos.com/blogs/formerlyfundie/no-bible-doesnt-command-stand-israel/

   

  By Benjamin L. Corey

  Published February 27, 2017

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• Where is Palestine?: A story of loss, inequality and failure

  
  October 19, 2021 14:34

  Source: OCHA Services

  https://reliefweb.int/report/occupied-palestinian-territory/where-palestine-story-loss-inequality-and-failure-september

   

  Published September 2021

   

  New report warns unequal status quo in Israel and Palestine will lead to more violence

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• Time to Recognize Reality of Israeli Apartheid & Persecution

  
  October 05, 2021 18:34

  Source: Human Rights Watch

  https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/10/04/time-recognize-reality-israeli-apartheid-persecution

   

  Published October 4, 2021

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• Racial justice vs. the Israel Lobby: when being pro-Palestine becomes the new normal

  
  October 05, 2021 17:48

  Source: Middle East Monitor

  https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20211005-racial-justice-vs-the-israel-lobby-when-being-pro-palestine-becomes-the-new-normal/

   

  
  By Dr Ramzy Baroud

  Published October 5, 2021

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• Love letters to Palestine: In search of decolonial justice

  
  September 28, 2021 12:46

  Source: Middle East Eye

  https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/palestine-love-letters-search-decolonial-justice

   

  By Devin G. Atallah, Lana Andoni, Hana R. Masud

  Published September 25, 2021

   

  Three Palestinian mental health workers and psychologists solicited letters of mass love for Palestine in the face of Israel's colonial conquest

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• Palestine: An open-air museum of colonialism

  
  September 28, 2021 13:04

  Source: Al Jazeera

  https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/9/7/palestine-an-open-air-museum-of-colonialism

   

  By Omar Khalifah

  Published September 7, 2021

   

  Palestine has been turned, brutally, into a permanent museum of colonialism whose doors should have closed long ago.

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• Opinion | Why Are Israelis Scared of Palestinian Identity?

  
  September 28, 2021 13:16

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-why-are-israelis-scared-of-palestinian-identity-1.10214999

   

  By Ofer Daganand Ron Gerlitz

  Published September 16, 2021

   

  Efforts to build a Jewish-Arab shared society in Israel are needed more than ever. Here are three main obstacles such attempts must overcome

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