Common Grounds

Gulf normalization isn’t about fearing Iran, it’s about embracing Israel

December 17, 2020 11:25
ource: The Times of Israel

https://www.timesofisrael.com/gulf-normalization-isnt-about-fearing-iran-its-about-embracing-israel/?utm_source=The+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=daily-edition-2020-12-16&utm_medium=email

By HAVIV RETTIG GUR

Published December 16, 2020

An off-the-record conversation between Emirati and Israeli officials reveals a deeper impulse for forging ties than the immediate benefits each country has won for itself
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Opinion | This Is What Real Mideast Peace Looks Like

December 18, 2020 12:48
Source: Haaretz

https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-this-is-what-real-mideast-peace-looks-like-1.9369064?lts=1608250989243

By Avi Shilon

Published December 13, 2020
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With the Nation-State Law, Israel’s religious right is deciding who is a Jew

December 22, 2020 14:48
Source: +972 Magazine

https://www.972mag.com/nation-state-law-judaism-religious-right/

By Etan Nechin

Published December 20, 2020

Israel's Nation-State Law does not see Judaism as a diverse religion, but as an identity that guarantees supremacy over other people — including other Jews.
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Netanyahu’s two Israels

December 25, 2020 12:29
Source: The Times of Israel

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/netanyahus-two-israels/?utm_source=The+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=daily-edition-2020-12-24&utm_medium=email

By Yossi Klein Halevi

Published December 24, 2020

He is our most talented leader and our most destructive politician, bringing unprecedented agreements with Arab countries and scorched earth in our governance
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It works: 0 deaths, only 4 severe cases among 523,000 fully vaccinated Israelis

February 12, 2021 14:22
Source: The Times of Israel

https://www.timesofisrael.com/hmo-sees-only-544-covid-infections-among-523000-fully-vaccinated-israelis/?utm_source=Breaking+News&utm_campaign=breaking-news-2021-02-12-2478097&utm_medium=email

By NATHAN JEFFAY

Published 11 February, 2021

HMO data a week after 2nd dose shows 93% effectiveness, ‘unequivocally’ proving vaccine’s success and leaving ‘no doubt’ it’s saved many Israeli lives, says Maccabi official
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Palestinian Evangelicals in Confrontation with Christian Zionism

February 12, 2021 14:35
Source: Washington Report on Middle East Affairs

https://www.wrmea.org/israel-palestine/palestinian-evangelicals-in-confrontation-with-christian-zionism.html

Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, March/April 2021, pp. 30-31

Christianity and the Middle East

By REV. ALEX AWAD
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Lucky for Fox Trump No Longer President

March 26, 2021 12:01
Source: NRC Amerika

nrc.nl/amerika

By Bas Blokker

Published March 23, 2021

Translated and edited by Abraham A. van Kempen

Good afternoon,

Fascinating to see how the roles have simply turned. A Democratic government keeps the press away from sheltering migrant children, and a Republican governor worried about a corona outbreak in the shelter.
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A Book Review on the Topic of Christian Nationalism

March 25, 2021 13:50
Source: Gospel in Life

https://quarterly.gospelinlife.com/book-review-on-the-topic-of-christian-nationalism/

By Timothy Keller

Tim Keller reviews Samuel L. Perry and Andrew Whitehead's book Taking America Back for God: Christian Nationalism in the United States (Oxford, 2020)
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The Evangelical Pope – Children the Center of Christianity

March 29, 2021 11:18
Living Words from John Paul II

Edited by Abraham A. van Kempen

Published Sunday, March 28, 2021
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The ICC probe into Palestine: where is the EU?

March 30, 2021 12:35
Source: EUobserver

https://euobserver.com/opinion/151359

By RASMUS ALENIUS BOSERUP

Published March 30, 2021
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