Common Grounds

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• After decades of waiting, Israel allows unification of some Palestinian Christians

  
  January 31, 2022 11:02

  Source: Maghtas Magazine

  https://maghtas.com/2022/01/israel-allows-unification-of-palestinian-christians/#

   

  By Daoud Kuttab

  Published January 29, 2022

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• Israeli military disciplines three officers in death of elderly Palestinian American

  
  February 01, 2022 11:43

  Source: The Washington Post

  https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/01/31/israel-army-probe-omar-assad/

   

  By Erin Cunningham

  Published January 31, 2022

   

  Omar Assad died after he was detained by Israeli soldiers in the West Bank

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• Israel’s apartheid against Palestinians: a cruel system of domination and a crime against humanity

  
  February 01, 2022 13:40

  Source: Amnesty International

  https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/02/israels-apartheid-against-palestinians-a-cruel-system-of-domination-and-a-crime-against-humanity/

   

  Published February 1, 2022

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• Opinion | The Culture of the Occupation Is a Hothouse for Inhumanity

  
  February 08, 2022 15:07

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-the-culture-of-the-occupation-is-a-hothouse-for-inhumanity-1.10583688

   

  By Zvi Bar'el

  Published February 2, 2022

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• The person I should have been in unoccupied Palestine

  
  February 08, 2022 15:17

  Source: Mondoweiss

  https://mondoweiss.net/2022/02/the-person-i-should-have-been-in-unoccupied-palestine/

   

  By REEM A. HAMAD

  Published February 3, 2022

   

  Reem Hamadaqa is 22 years old and has never left the Gaza Strip. Photos in an old family album are her only window to a Palestine she has never seen.

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• Israeli, Palestinian figures propose 2-state confederation

  
  February 17, 2022 14:28

  Source: aol.com

  https://www.aol.com/israeli-palestinian-figures-propose-2-060904875-162449396.html

   

  By JOSEPH KRAUSS, ASSOCIATED PRESS

  Published February 7, 2022

   

  Israel Palestinians Confederation Plan

  
  Yossi Beilin, a former senior Israeli official and peace negotiator who co-founded the Geneva Initiative, poses for a photo at his house in Tel Aviv, Israel, Sunday, Feb. 6, 2022. Israeli and Palestinian public figures, including Beilin and Hiba Husseini, a former legal advisor to the Palestinian negotiating team who hails from a prominent Jerusalem family, have drawn up a new proposal for a two-state confederation that they hope will offer a way forward after a decade-long stalemate in Mideast peace efforts.

  (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)ASSOCIATED PRESS

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• Opinion | If Speaking Against Injustice Is Antisemitic, I'm an Antisemite

  
  February 15, 2022 15:22

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/if-speaking-out-against-injustice-is-antisemitic-i-m-an-antisemite-1.10600450

   

  By Akiva Eldar

  Published February 9, 2022

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• Guterres lauds efforts of Israeli-Palestinian confederation plan authors

  
  February 17, 2022 14:40

  Source: Jerusalem Post

  https://www.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/article-696282

   

  By TOVAH LAZAROFF
  Published February 12, 2022

   

  The UN Secretary General has been a strong advocate of a two-state resolution to the conflict and reaffirmed that stance at a recent meeting.

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• Will a Holy Land Confederation Help Resolve the Long Simmering Palestinian-Israeli Dispute?

  
  February 17, 2022 15:38

  Source: InDepthNews

  https://www.indepthnews.net/index.php/the-world/middle-east/5087-will-a-holy-land-confederation-help-resolve-the-long-simmering-palestinian-israeli-dispute

   

  By Thalif Deen

  Published February 16, 2022

   

  Only a political solution will end the “senseless and costly cycles of violence” between Israelis and Palestinians, UN Middle East envoy Tor Wennesland said at a briefing to the Security Council in 2021.

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• In Ukraine’s vulnerability, a reminder for Israel

  
  February 18, 2022 12:57

  Source: The Times of Israel

  https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-ukraines-vulnerability-a-reminder-for-israel/?utm_source=The+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=daily-edition-2022-02-17&utm_medium=email

   

  By DAVID HOROVITZ

  Published February 17, 2022

   

  One country invading another is ‘so 20th century,’ our foreign minister said. Except, as he went on to acknowledge, it’s all too plainly a threat in the here and now

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