Common Grounds

Talk to Palestinians or pay price of ‘perpetual occupation’ – German FM to Israel

February 02, 2018 15:23
Source: RT

https://www.rt.com/news/417620-israel-prospect-occupation-palestine/

Published: 1 Feb, 2018

Israel could pay the price for “perpetual occupation and conflict” and face the prospect of being stuck in a “fully-fledged annexation” if it abandons reconciliation with the Palestinians, the German foreign minister has warned.
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Between Poland's Holocaust revisionism and Israel's Nakba denial

February 05, 2018 14:39
Source: +972 Magazine

https://972mag.com/between-polands-holocaust-revisionism-and-israels-nakba-denial/132744/

By Haneen Zoabi
Published January 28, 2018

Poland’s attempt to scrub clean its role in the murder of European Jewry is, at its core, no different from Israel’s attempt to erase the catastrophe that befell the Palestinians in 1948.
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PLO to Demand UN Security Council Recognize Palestine Within 1967 Borders

February 05, 2018 14:44
Source: Haaretz

https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/palestinians/plo-to-demand-un-security-council-to-recognize-palestine-1.5787277

By Jack Khoury
Published Feb 04, 2018

The Palestine Liberation Organization will also formulate a plan for disengaging from Israel in terms of security and economics
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ARE EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANS ANTI-PALESTINIAN?

February 05, 2018 14:54
Source: The Jerusalem Post

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Are-Evangelical-Christians-anti-Palestinian-540601#/

By Joel C. Rosenberg
Published FEBRUARY 3, 2018

To the contrary, Scripture teaches us to love both Arabs and Jews.
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‘Two-state’ solution only way to resolve Israeli-Palestinian conflict: UN

February 06, 2018 15:29
Source: Press TV

http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2018/02/06/551421/Palestine-Israel-UN-Antonio-Guterres

United Nations (UN) Secretary General Antonio Guterres has emphasized that the so-called two-state solution is the sole way out of the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict, warning that the “negative trends” unfolding in the region could endanger the bid.
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UN Resolution 242’s True Significance vs. Popular Zionist Myth

February 07, 2018 15:25
Source: Foreign Policy Journal

https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2018/01/26/un-resolution-242s-true-significance-vs-popular-zionist-myth/

By Jeremy R. Hammond

Published Jan 26, 2018

Contrary to the popular Zionist myth upon which the entire so-called "peace process" was premised, UN Security Council Resolution 242 requires Israel to fully and immediately withdraw its armed forces from occupied Palestine.
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A blessing or colossal curse? What it means to be an Israeli today

February 08, 2018 14:47
Source: Middle East Eye

http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/colossal-curse-god-1161324388

By Marcelo Svirsky
Published 22 January 2018

We should not assume that everything the Israelis earn from their acts of colonisation of Palestinians is profit and privilege
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ENCOUNTERING PEACE: SUCCESSFUL CONTACTS

February 09, 2018 14:48
Source: The Jerusalem Post

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Encountering-Peace-Successful-contacts-540994

BY GERSHON BASKIN

Published FEBRUARY 7, 2018

I remain convinced that Israeli-Palestinian peace is possible and that the compromises necessary to reach an agreement could be accepted by both sides – if we managed to change the climate.
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To Achieve One State, Palestinians Must Also Work for Two

February 09, 2018 15:08
Source: Al-Shabaka

https://al-shabaka.org/commentaries/achieve-one-state-palestinians-must-also-work-two/?platform=hootsuite

By Nadia Hijab

Published February 7, 2018

In the wake of US President Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, reinforced by Vice President Mike Pence’s promise to move the US embassy before the end of 2019, there has been a flurry of pieces heralding the imminent shift in a Palestinian strategy toward a one-state solution with equal rights. Both Palestinian negotiators closely involved in the moribund Oslo peace process and Palestinians who have long since despaired of Oslo declared that it is time to transform the struggle. Meanwhile, Israel continued to expand settlements, crack down on protests, and plan annexation of some or all of the West Bank.
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Confederation: The One Possible Israel-Palestine Solution

February 09, 2018 15:46
Source: The New York Review of Books

The New York Review of Books

By Bernard Avishai

Published February 2, 2018

“The two-state solution is over,” Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat told reporters, responding to Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. “Now is the time to transform the struggle for one state with equal rights for everyone living in historic Palestine, from the river to the sea.” As The New York Times subsequently reported, Erekat is hardly alone. The “over”-ness of “two states”—albeit with radical disagreements about the character of a hypothetical single state—has been claimed by ideological zealots, severe liberals, and exasperated peacemakers alike.
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