Common Grounds

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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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• 'Holy Land Confederation': Oslo Accords Architect Presents New Peace Plan

  
  February 10, 2022 11:36

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.HIGHLIGHT-holy-land-confederation-oslo-accords-architect-presents-new-peace-plan-1.10601495?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=haaretz-news&utm_content=15ea3dbd92

   

  By Allison Kaplan Sommer

  Published February 9, 2022

   

  Veteran Israeli peace negotiator Yossi Beilin and Palestinian attorney Hiba Husseini suggest the creation of a confederation, with people swaps involving settlers and refugees, as a way to revive the two state solution

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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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• 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 the Ukraine crisis affect the Palestinians?

  
  February 24, 2022 18:03

  Source: Middle East Monitor

  https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20220216-will-the-ukraine-crisis-affect-the-palestinians/

   

  By Nasser Nasser

  Published February 16, 2022

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• Gantz and VP Harris Meet, Discuss Iran, Ukraine, Palestinians

  
  February 24, 2022 21:54

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-gantz-and-vp-harris-meet-discuss-iran-ukraine-palestinians-1.10622006

   

  By Yaniv Kubovich

  Published February 19, 2022

   

  Meeting with Harris at Munich Security Conference touched on 'the importance of confidence-building measures with the Palestinians,' Gantz says

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• Defacing the Image of God

  
  March 01, 2022 13:59

  Source: Friends of Sabeel North America

  https://www.fosna.org/the-fosna-blog/defacing-the-image-of-god?fbclid=IwAR1XUQUUT-_F06J6qJ95mo4eAskr93scNbx0HwJ4RpoWinkPH41J19pGYiE

   

  By Jesse Steven Wheeler

  Published February, 2022

   

  But when Jesus saw this, he was indignant and said to them, “Let the little children come to me; do not stop them; for it is to such as these that the kingdom of God belongs. —Mark 10:14 (NRSV)

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• When an American Christian Zionist Can’t Even Say the Words “Occupation” or “Justice”

  
  March 01, 2022 14:49

  Source: Washington Report

  https://www.wrmea.org/israel-palestine/when-an-american-christian-zionist-cant-even-say-the-words-occupation-or-justice.html

   

  By Daoud Kuttab

  Published February 24, 2022

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• Ukraine crisis highlights West’s hypocrisy over Israeli land theft

  
  February 24, 2022 17:25

  Source: The Electronic Intifada

  https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/ukraine-crisis-highlights-wests-hypocrisy-over-israeli-land-theft

   

  By Ali Abunimah

  Published February 22, 2022

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• The new Palestinian year: A mixture of myths and hope

  
  February 22, 2022 15:35

  Source: Middle East Monitor

  https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20220219-the-new-palestinian-year-a-mixture-of-myths-and-hope/

   

  By Dr Mohammad Makram Balawi

  Published February 19, 2022

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