Common Grounds

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• New bill would protect the rights of Palestinian children and families

  
  April 21, 2021 12:02

  Source: American Friends Service Committee

  https://www.afsc.org/newsroom/new-bill-would-protect-rights-palestinian-children-and-families?fbclid=IwAR1v9Esza0XWqeKXFGwAYn1s4p4daLC3Y7gXn_RFZ-wz5l0IGf9qOnCA3vw

   

  Published April 16, 2021

   

  Quaker org urges fast passage to protect human rights

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• What ties the U.S. and Israel together? Our arrogant, doomed mythology of exceptionalism

  
  April 20, 2021 18:05

  Source: Salon

  https://www.salon.com/2021/04/17/what-ties-the-us-and-israel-together-our-arrogant-doomed-mythology-of-exceptionalism/

   

  By DOUG NEISS

  Published April 17, 2021

   

  Our two nations are headed for doom, driven by the power of the Zionist right and a conviction we can do no wrong

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• Essay | Man Imposes, God Disposes

  
  April 20, 2021 11:55

  By: Abraham A. van Kempen, Editor

   

  Pro-Life and Pro-Choice are Both Biblical

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• The Jewish Women Who Posed an 'Existential Threat' to Israel by Marrying Arab Men

  
  April 16, 2021 11:25

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.HIGHLIGHT.MAGAZINE-the-jewish-women-who-posed-an-existential-threat-to-israel-by-marrying-arab-men-1.9712411?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=daily-brief&utm_content=4c9d6c5409&lts=1618499688158

   

  By Ofer Aderet

  Published April 14, 2021

   

  Hundreds of Jewish women married Arab men in the Mandate period. They were branded enemies of Israel, and to this day their families find it hard to talk about them. No wonder, then, that these stories were buried in the archives and are only now coming to light

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• Analysis | Israel at 73: Alive, Kicking and Ailing

  
  April 15, 2021 11:07

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.HIGHLIGHT-israel-at-73-alive-kicking-and-ailing-1.9711973?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=haaretz-news&utm_content=c1e2a2f904&lts=1618451607513

   

  By Alon Pinkas

  Published April 14, 2021

   

  Israel is descending into quasi-authoritarianism, led by a prime minister who is facing a corruption trial and spewing incendiary rhetoric. But not all is bleak

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• Opinion | They're Israel's Far Right, Pro-ethnic Cleansing Nationalists. But Don't Call Them 'Nazis'

  
  April 13, 2021 15:58

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/.premium.HIGHLIGHT-they-re-israel-s-far-right-anti-arab-nationalists-but-don-t-call-them-nazis-1.9694208?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=weekend&utm_content=fa566b83bc

   

  By Anshel Pfeffer

  Published April 8, 2021

   

  On the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, far right leader Bezalel Smotrich threatened Palestinian citizens of Israel with ethnic cleansing. Calling him a Nazi is too easy a way out of the real, pressing problem his camp poses for Israel and Judaism

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• The Three-State Solution

  
  April 13, 2021 15:32

  Source: Tablet

  https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/three-state-solution-benjamin-kerstein-peace-israel-palestine

   

  By BENJAMIN KERSTEIN

  Published March 23, 2021

   

  The two-state solution has been dead for decades. A one-state solution frightens Israelis and Palestinians alike. Is three the magic number for peace?

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• Why I left the cult

  
  April 13, 2021 15:16

  Source: Mondoweiss

  https://mondoweiss.net/2016/10/why-i-left-the-cult/

   

  By AVIGAIL ABARBANEL 

  Published October 8, 2016

   

                      All changed, changed utterly:
                      A terrible beauty is born.
                      –From Easter, 1916, by WB Yeats

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• The US media is touting Israel’s Covid recovery. But occupied Palestinians are left out

  
  April 13, 2021 14:44

  Source: Jewish Voice for Peace

  https://jfjfp.com/the-us-media-is-touting-israels-covid-recovery-but-occupied-palestinians-are-left-out/

   

  Published April 12, 2021

  Yara M Asi reports in The Guardian Fri 9 Apr 2021

   

  Instead of vaccinating Palestinians, Benjamin Netanyahu tried to send thousands of doses around the world as rewards to countries that moved their embassies to Jerusalem

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• William Barber preaches at Easter vigil service spotlighting Christian Palestinians

  
  April 07, 2021 10:24

  Source: Religion News Service

  https://religionnews.com/2021/04/06/william-barber-preaches-at-easter-vigil-service-acknowledging-christian-palestinians/

   

  By Daoud Kuttab

  Published April 6, 2021

   

  Barber’s appearance served to recognize Christians in the Palestinian liberation movement, which some American evangelicals paint as an apocalyptic conflict between Christians and Muslims.

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