Common Grounds

Can You Trust God to Let the Chips Fall Where He wants?

October 15, 2019 13:51
By: Abraham A. van Kempen
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Why evangelicals in the US should support the establishment of a Palestinian state

October 25, 2019 14:15
Source: The Christian Post

https://www.christianpost.com/voice/why-evangelicals-in-the-us-should-support-the-establishment-of-a-palestinian-state.html

By Issam Smeir, Voices Contributor

Published September 18, 2019

This summer in Bahrain, Jared Kushner's plan for a bright new economic future for Palestine was announced. This plan, however, not only does not include a solution to the political challenges in the region (that's anticipated to come this fall), but it follows on the heels of rumors that the Trump administration has been considering alternatives that do not include a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Countering Christian Zionism in the Age of Trump

November 01, 2019 13:24
Source: Middle East Research and Information Project

https://merip.org/2019/08/countering-christian-zionism-in-the-age-of-trump/

By Mimi Kirk

Published 08 August 2019

The May 2018 ceremony marking the opening of the US embassy in Jerusalem featured many of the usual suspects. US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, Senior Advisor to President Donald Trump Jared Kushner and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu all delivered remarks during the more than one-hour-long ceremony that touted the US-Israel relationship and, in Netanyahu’s words, embraced Jerusalem as “the eternal, undivided capital of Israel.”
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Jewish Citizens in a Future Democratic Palestine?

November 18, 2019 14:33
Source: Providence

https://providencemag.com/2019/11/dual-democracies-initiative-israel-jewish-citizens-democratic-palestine/

By George E. Assousa

Published November 13, 2019

As a 12-year-old boy in 1948, I fled with my family from our home in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Katamon and never returned. Life took me to Ramallah, where I received a good Christian education, and then to the United States, where I became a physicist. Eventually, I went to the United Kingdom, where I became involved in international economic development. My heart still beats with memories of my beautiful home in Jerusalem, but my mind—trained through physics to deal with concrete facts—tells me that, unfortunately, history in Palestine cannot be reversed. The future, on the contrary, is in our hands.
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Church of England report admits Christian anti-Semitism helped lead to Holocaust

November 25, 2019 14:54
Source: The Times of Israel

https://www.timesofisrael.com/church-of-england-report-admits-christian-anti-semitism-led-to-holocaust/

By ROBERT PHILPOT

Publshed 22 November 2019

Work acknowledges ‘fertile seed-bed for murderous anti-Semitism in the modern era’; in afterword to 105-page document, chief rabbi slams evangelical attempts to convert Jews
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Israel needs unity, not immunity

January 06, 2020 11:37
Source: The Times of Israel

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-knesset-is-not-a-refuge-for-criminals/?utm_source=The+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=daily-edition-2020-01-02&utm_medium=email

By Benny Gantz

Published January 2, 2020

Netanyahu should have assured Israel that the country is more important than any person's job; instead, he is perverting the rule of law
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Daoud Kuttab Says More…

January 09, 2020 11:18
Source: The PS Say More Newsletter

https://us10.campaign-archive.com/?u=9116789a51839e0f88fa29b83&id=68cd46793c&e=284f1f0e24

By Project Syndicate
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A Boiling Point

January 13, 2020 11:42
Source: The National Council of Churches

https://nationalcouncilofchurches.us/a-boiling-point/

By Jim Winkler

Published January 8, 2020

" Not only has Mr. Trump illegally assassinated an Iranian military leader, he now threatens to destroy ancient Persian cultural landmarks. The entire world is disgusted by such barbaric declarations.

JIM WINKLER, PRESIDENT AND GENERAL SECRETARY
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A Recurring Theme of My Pontificate …

January 17, 2020 10:11
Living Words from John Paul II

Edited by Abraham A. van Kempen

Published Sunday, 19 January 2020
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Trump’s plan isn’t about peace between Israelis and Palestinians

January 27, 2020 13:22
Source: The Times of Israel

https://www.timesofisrael.com/trumps-plan-isnt-about-peace-between-israelis-and-palestinians/?utm_source=The+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=daily-edition-2020-01-24&utm_medium=email

By JACOB MAGID

Published 24 January 2020

As rivals Netanyahu and Gantz get White House invite, Washington’s proposal could be a basis for long-elusive Israeli unity government, and a springboard for annexing settlements
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