Common Grounds

Evangelical Christian Groups Invested $65 Million to Jewish Settlements

December 10, 2018 15:16
Source: The Palestine Chronicle

http://www.palestinechronicle.com/evangelical-christian-groups-invested-65-million-to-jewish-settlements/

By the Palestine Chronicle staff

Published December 10, 2018

Evangelical Christian groups have invested up to $65 million in projects in the “Biblical Heartland” over the past decade, however, that doesn’t include services they provide free of charge, such as volunteer laborers, according to a Haaretz investigation.
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Why Auschwitz survivor Esther Bejarano supports BDS

December 10, 2018 15:34
Source: The Electronic Intifada

https://electronicintifada.net/content/why-auschwitz-survivor-esther-bejarano-supports-bds/26191

By Adri Nieuwhof

Published 6 December 2018

Esther Bejarano learned to love music from her father Rudolf Loewy, a cantor in the Jewish community of the southwest German town of Saarlouis, where she was born in 1924.
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Opinion // 'Trump Will Make Palestine Great Again': The Most Combative, Uncomfortable Op-eds of 2018

January 03, 2019 14:24
Source: Haaretz

https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/trump-will-make-palestine-great-again-the-31-most-uncomfortable-opeds-of-2018-1.6758748

By Esther Solomon

Published Dec 30, 2018

From Pittsburgh to Khashoggi, settlements to Syria, Netanyahu's far-right friends and Assad's Western apologists, Palestinian 'saints' and Sikhs for Palestine: Here are 31 op-eds to ruin your holiday mood
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The moral travesty of Israel seeking Arab, Iranian money for its alleged Nakba

January 18, 2019 15:23
Source: The Arab American

https://www.arabamericannews.com/2019/01/18/the-moral-travesty-of-israel-seeking-arab-iranian-money-for-its-alleged-nakba/

By Ramzy Baroud

Published 18.01, 2019

The game is afoot. Israel, believe it or not, is demanding that seven Arab countries and Iran pay $250 billion as compensation for what it claims was the forceful exodus of Jews from Arab countries during the late 1940s.
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Opinion // I'm Shaving Off My Zionism, the Worst a Man Can Get

January 18, 2019 15:31
Source: Haaretz

https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-i-m-shaving-off-my-zionism-the-worst-a-man-can-get-1.6850415

By Bradley Burston

Published Jan 17, 2019

The Gillette commercial caused me to look again, more closely, at Netanyahu's Iwo Jima moment. That's when it struck me
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Time to Break the Silence on Palestine

January 23, 2019 13:11
Source: The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/19/opinion/sunday/martin-luther-king-palestine-israel.html

By Michelle Alexander

Published January 19, 2019

On April 4, 1967, exactly one year before his assassination, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stepped up to the lectern at the Riverside Church in Manhattan. The United States had been in active combat in Vietnam for two years and tens of thousands of people had been killed, including some 10,000 American troops. The political establishment — from left to right — backed the war, and more than 400,000 American service members were in Vietnam, their lives on the line.
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Report: Palestinian Christian Diplomacy in Fight against Christian Zionists

February 08, 2019 15:42
Source: International Middle East Media Center

http://imemc.org/article/report-palestinian-christian-diplomacy-in-fight-against-christian-zionists/

By Daoud Kuttab

Published February 8, 2019

The Palestinian government is turning to its own Christian community and even its evangelicals to campaign against distorted Christian Zionists.
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Will Palestine finally recognize local evangelicals?

March 01, 2019 22:01
Source: Al-Monitor

https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2019/02/palestinian-evangelicals-recognition-christian-zionism.html

BY Daoud Kuttab

Published February 18, 2019

After years of inaction and even rejection, the Palestinian government appears poised to recognize local evangelical churches in Palestine.
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Politics is religion, and the right is getting ready for the end times

March 20, 2019 16:28
Source: The Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-left-was-about-salvation-the-right-is-about-the-end-times/2019/03/18/2cd16898-49b8-11e9-9663-00ac73f49662_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.99d247856410&wpisrc=nl_most&wpmm=1

By Michael Gerson

Published March 18, 2019

As politics has become a religion in so many lives, political discourse has taken on theological overtones. I am not referring to President Trump’s accusation of a “witch hunt,” which places the FBI in the role of Puritan divines. This is merely an absurd metaphor.
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What Does Christianity Say About One People, One Land, One God?

September 21, 2018 20:17
By Abraham A. van Kempen

Source: The Times of Israel

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/what-does-christianity-say-about-one-people-one-land-one-god/

Published SEP 22, 2018

When asked on my first day in kindergarten, ‘where were you born,’ I sparkled with pride: ‘Palaestina!’ Palaestina, pronounced in Dutch, sounded so exotic.
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