Common Grounds

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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‘Tantura’ Documentary Maintains Israel’s Defense of its Ethnic Cleansing

February 22, 2022 15:18
Source: Inside Arabia

https://insidearabia.com/tantura-documentary-maintains-israels-defense-of-its-ethnic-cleansing/

By Ramona Wadi

Published February 14, 2022

Israeli narratives of Tantura’s ethnic cleansing do not hold Israel accountable for its ongoing Nakba. Despite the information hitting Israeli society, the accounts themselves invalidate the Palestinian experience by defending the Zionist colonial project – this is also true of the latest documentary on the subject titled “Tantura”.
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Palestinians Empathize With Ukrainian War Plight, but Not All Oppose Russia

March 18, 2022 12:23
Source: Haaretz

https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/palestinians-empathize-with-ukrainian-war-plight-but-not-all-oppose-russia-1.10680490?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=daily-brief&utm_content=6ff55c3276

The Associated Press

Published March 17, 2022

Dozens of Palestinian-Ukrainian families watch the unfolding war in Ukraine with trepidation, but Zelenskyy's support for Israel and historic ties with Russia leave the population split
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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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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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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 | We've Obsessed Over Our Past With No Clear Future in Sight

February 10, 2022 14:45
Source: Haaretz

https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-we-ve-obsessed-over-our-past-with-no-clear-future-in-sight-1.10593703

By Carolina Landsmann

Published February 6, 2022
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Blinken Calls Abbas to Talk U.S.-Palestinian Relations, Also Speaks With Israel's Lapid

February 10, 2022 13:15
Source: Haaretz

https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/.premium-blinken-holds-rare-phone-call-with-abbas-about-u-s-palestinian-relations-1.10581012

By Ben Samuels and Jonathan Lis

Published February 1, 2022

The rare phone call to the Palestinian president comes after recent increased direct contacts between Israeli and Palestinian leaders
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The Evangelical Pope | Love … A River Flowing Through Life

February 14, 2022 12:15
Living Words from John Paul II

Edited by Abraham A. van Kempen

Published Sunday, November 1, 2020
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