Common Grounds
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From Peace to Armageddon / The Israel-Palestine nightmare
September 18, 2018 13:16Source: Wae is Boring
https://warisboring.com/from-peace-to-armageddon/
By Sandy Tolan
Published September 18, 2018
When I first traveled to Israel-Palestine in 1994, during the heady early days of the Oslo peace process, I was expecting to see more of the joyful celebrations I’d watched on television at home. The emotional welcoming of Palestinian Liberation Organization chairman Yasser Arafat back to Palestine.
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'Let us fight together for human rights, for a country that is democratic for all its citizens'
September 20, 2018 10:47Source: +972 Magazine
https://972mag.com/artema-gaza-return-march-garmi-draft-objector/137824/
By Ahmed Abu Artema
Published September 19, 2018
Ahmed Abu Artema, one of the organizers of the Great Return March in Gaza, responds to Israeli conscientious objector Hillel Garmi, who said his decision to refuse the draft is partly inspired by Artema’s acts of civil disobedience.
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Middle East takes centre stage: What got said at the UN General Assembly
September 26, 2018 14:16Source: Middle East Eye
By Areeb Ullah
Published: 25 September 2018
From Syria's civil war to the occupation of Palestine, world leaders sound off on how to bring peace to the region
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‘People have been there 50 years. They’re not refugees’
September 26, 2018 14:23Source: Dawn
https://www.dawn.com/news/1435038/people-have-been-there-50-years-theyre-not-refugees
By Robert Fisk
Published September 26, 2018
CHAIM Silberstein insists on showing me Jacob’s Stone. It lies in Beit El — “The House of God” — which is the name of the colony of 7,000 Jews just outside Ramallah. Right here was where the ancient Jewish patriarch lay down on his stone, so it is written, and dreamed of the ladder to heaven upon which angels ascended and descended. It was the 25th anniversary of the broken Oslo agreement, a strange day upon which to remember all those winged creatures — rather earlier in history — plodding up and down. But I have to admit that God’s message to Jacob all those thousands of years ago was a bit less prosaic and certainly more long term. “I am the Lord God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac; the land on which you lie I will give to you and your descendants.”
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Trump is the laughingstock of the world
September 26, 2018 17:54Source: The Washington Post
By Dana Milbank
Published September 25, 2018
Promise made, promise kept.
“The world is laughing at us,” Donald Trump often said during the campaign.
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Trump backs two-state solution for Mideast
September 27, 2018 12:52Source: 1 News Now
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/world/trump-backs-two-state-solution-mideast
AP
Published September 26, 2018
President Donald Trump waded into thorny Middle East politics while at the United Nations overnight, endorsing the two-state solution to bring an end the decades-long conflict between Israel and the Palestinians while poised to denounce the dangers posed by Iran.
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Corbyn says UK will immediately recognize Palestinian state if he’s elected
September 26, 2018 17:37Source: The Times of Israel
By MICHAEL BACHNER and TOI STAFF
Published September 26, 2018
UK Labour leader condemns anti-Semitism, along with the nation-state law and the killing of ‘unarmed demonstrators’ in Gaza
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Lebanon president complains to UN of double standard in treatment of Israel, Palestinians
September 27, 2018 12:35Source: The Times of Israel
AP
Published September 26, 2018
The president of Lebanon is accusing the international community of a double standard when dealing with the Middle East.
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My grandfather Nelson Mandela fought apartheid. I see the parallels with Israel
October 12, 2018 12:30Source: The Gardian
By Nkosi Zwelivelile
Published 11 October, 2018
It took an international effort to end institutionalised racism in my country – now it must happen again, for Palestinian people
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‘Enemies of Christianity’: Palestinian archbishop blasts pro-Israel evangelicals
October 25, 2018 12:18Source: World Israel News
By World Israel News Staff
Published October 24, 2018
A Palestinian Christian leader recently claimed that evangelicals who support the Jewish state “have no connection to the values of Christianity.”
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