Common Grounds

7 FACTS ABOUT PALESTINIAN CHILDREN

October 28, 2021 15:24
Source: The Borgen Project

https://borgenproject.org/7-facts-about-palestinian-children/

By Sarah Uddin

Published August 21, 2020
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Opinion | For 17 Years, Stone-throwing Settlers Have Terrorized Palestinian Children. I Was One of Them

October 28, 2021 15:45
Source: Haaretz

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-for-17-years-settlers-have-terrorized-palestinian-children-i-was-one-of-them-1.10292655

By Ali Awad

Published October 17, 2021

For the children of Tuba, a Palestinian village in South Hebron Hills, attending school means walking more than ten kilometers with an armed IDF escort, to bypass an illegal settlement whose residents regularly threaten and attack them. I was one of those kids
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Analysis | What Trump Accidentally Got Right on Israel and Congress

November 04, 2021 15:20
Source: Haaretz

https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium.HIGHLIGHT-what-trump-accidentally-got-right-on-israel-and-congress-1.10347033?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=haaretz-news&utm_content=878cbe2595&lts=1635906252668

By Alon Pinkas

Published November 2, 2021

When the former U.S. president said Israel is no longer a consensus issue in Congress, he attributed it to AOC and Ilhan Omar. But the real reasons for the change lie much closer to Trump Tower
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Opinion | First Saudi Arabia, Now Sudan: Why Israel's Normalization Strategy Is Imploding

November 05, 2021 11:12
Source: Haaretz

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/saudi-arabia-to-sudan-why-israel-s-normalization-strategy-is-imploding-1.10353622?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=haaretz-news&utm_content=b025df3c19

By Yonatan Touval

Published November 5, 2021
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The Evangelical Pope | Brandenburg – The Gate of Freedom

November 08, 2021 11:03
Living Words from John Paul II

Edited by Abraham A. van Kempen

Published Sunday, November 7, 2021
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Zionism’s Original Sin: Ignoring the Fact That Palestine Was Fully Populated

November 09, 2021 15:55
Source: Washinton Report on Middle East Affairs

https://www.wrmea.org/israel-palestine/zionisms-original-sin-ignoring-the-fact-that-palestine-was-fully-populated.html

By ALLAN C. BROWNFELD

Published November 4, 2021

Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, November/December 2021, pp. 12-13, 21
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Egypt’s President Promotes Religious Choice During Human Rights Rollout

November 04, 2021 15:00
Source: Christianity Today

https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2021/october/egypt-human-rights-strategy-sisi-religion-coptic-christians.html

By JAYSON CASPER

Published October 18,2021

Some Copts cheer Sisi’s stance and new five-year reform strategy, while others focus on absence of attention to problematic ID cards and reconciliation committees.
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Sisi’s Brand of Islam

November 04, 2021 14:42
Source: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

https://carnegieendowment.org/sada/85621?utm_source=rssemail&utm_medium=email&mkt_tok=MDk1LVBQVi04MTMAAAGAQpPnWuh0wEw4-C0vcd5lO05oLJkdTorAD8bUDJUOW0rntytvOxmhxChzreJ5MbFyqT0sKbpcnzff-PubNf6AdCOqGEX-7HJ0D6xXS5_NDUI

By MAGED MANDOUR

Published October 21, 2021

Sisi’s call for religious renewal falls within the regime’s attempt to centralize power in its hands by creating a top-down version of state sponsored Islam anchored in conservative social values.
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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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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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