Common Grounds

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• ‘Is this a state or a security company?’

  
  August 02, 2017 12:05

  Source: JEWS FOR JUSTICE FOR PALESTINIANS

  http://jfjfp.com/?p=94062

   

  By Yossi Verter, Analysis Haaretz premium
  Published July 28, 2017

   

  Behind the scenes of Netanyahu’s Flip-flop on the Temple Mount

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• Cracks in the security apparatus

  
  August 02, 2017 12:29

  Source: JEWS FOR JUSTICE FOR PALESTINIANS

  http://jfjfp.com/?p=94077

   

  Two articles, 1) Farah Najjar and Zena Tahhan, Al Jazeera, on flaws in the security system; 2) Al Jazeera: “We won!”

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• Ancient DNA solves mystery of the Canaanites, reveals the biblical people’s fate

  
  July 28, 2017 14:55

  Source: The Washington Post

  https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/07/27/ancient-dna-solves-mystery-of-the-canaanites-reveals-the-biblical-peoples-fate/?utm_term=.ac5d92f6ede6&wpisrc=nl_az_most&wpmk=1

   

  By Ben Guarino

  Published July 27 2017

   

  In the Bronze Age, between 4,000 and 3,000 years ago, a diverse group of people called the Canaanites lived in the Middle East. Despite their culture and influence — one of the only golden calf idols discovered was found in the Canaan seaport of Ashqelon — they left behind little information about themselves. Other civilizations made records of them, such as the Greeks, Egyptians and the authors of the Hebrew Bible. But, without Canaanite texts to cite, scholars view the ancient people as a bit of an enigma.

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• Opinion // The Mantra of 'United' Jerusalem Is a Macabre Joke

  
  August 03, 2017 12:08

  Source: Haaretz

  http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.804634

   

  By Amira Hass

  Published Aug 02, 2017

   

  If Beit Hanina and Sur Baher interest Jews, it's because they have unused land that can still be stolen from the Palestinians to build a Zionist fortress

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• Opinion // It's Not About Flags: The Real Problem With Jewish-Palestinian Dialogue

  
  August 03, 2017 12:19

  Source: Haaretz

  http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.804781

   

  By Jonathan S. Tobin 

  Published Aug 03, 2017

   

  The American Jewish left is deeply invested in a form of asymmetric dialogue that too often requires co-opting Jewish kids to denounce the sins of Zionism

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• Opinion // Netanyahu Jr. Refuses to Pick Up Dog Poop, Then Claws at His Critics

  
  August 03, 2017 12:41

  Source: Haaretz

  http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.804628

   

  By Uri Misgav

  Published Aug 02, 2017

   

  25-year-old Yair Netanyahu responds to bad press with scathing attacks on the New Israel Fund and sons of former Israeli prime ministers

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• Opinion // Netanyahu's Looming Fall Is No Cause for Celebration

  
  August 07, 2017 13:47

  Source: Haaretz

  http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/1.805296

   

  By Gideon Levy

  Published Aug 06, 2017

   

  King Bibi’s departure is a necessary step, but by no means enough. Only a revolution in thinking will generate change in Israel

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• Loving Israel, Hating Jews

  
  August 07, 2017 15:33

  Source: Tikun Olam 

  https://www.richardsilverstein.com/2017/08/06/loving-israel-hating-jews/

   

  By Richard Silverstein

  Published August 6, 2017 

   

  Boy, that headline should bring some of you up short.  I know when I was a liberal Zionist a few decades ago, it would’ve struck me as exceedingly strange.  Then, ‘Zionist’ was a synonym for ‘Jew.’  You couldn’t be a Zionist without being a Jew.  And except for a few outliers who seemed beyond the Pale, you couldn’t be a Jew without being a Zionist.  How things have changed.

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• Israel’s treatment of Palestinians looks “a lot like apartheid”

  
  August 08, 2017 11:17

  Source: JEWS FOR JUSTICE FOR PALESTINIANS

  http://jfjfp.com/?p=94107

   

  By Jonathan Cook, Mondoweiss
  Published 1 August 2017

   

  Jodi Rudoren admits Palestinians experience ‘apartheid’ – but not in NYT

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• Netanyahu backs a new major exercise in ethnic cleansing

  
  August 08, 2017 12:01

  Source: JEWS FOR JUSTICE FOR PALESTINIANS

  http://jfjfp.com/?p=94142

   

  Middle East Eye,
  4 August 2017

   

  Netanyahu alarms Umm al-Fahm with talk of population swap

   

  After al-Aqsa attack, Israeli PM backs controversial transfer plan of far-right defence minister, Avigdor Lieberman

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