Common Grounds

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• Israel’s PM is playing with fire on the Temple Mount

  
  July 22, 2021 13:46

  Source: The Times of Israel

  https://www.timesofisrael.com/playing-with-fire-on-the-temple-mount/?utm_source=The+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=daily-edition-2021-07-19&utm_medium=email

   

  By DAVID HOROVITZ 

  Published July 19, 2021

   

  Bennett hailed ‘freedom of Jewish worship’ at the religious hotspot, a day after TV footage showed Jews at prayer there. Then he backtracked, anonymously. This is no way to govern

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• Analysis | America Is Losing Its 'Leader of the Free World' Mantle. That's Bad News for Israel

  
  July 26, 2021 13:21

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-america-is-losing-its-leader-of-the-free-world-mantle-that-s-bad-news-for-israel-1.10030871?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=haaretz-news&utm_content=111950d2cc

   

  By Alon Pinkas

  Published July 25, 2021

   

  For the past five years, the U.S. has been regarded a ‘flawed democracy.’ Unless it can resolve its internal problems, the rest of the world will lose faith in American leadership. That would be a problem for U.S. allies like Israel

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• CJPME URGES CANADIAN OFFICIALS TO MOVE BEYOND FOCUS ON TWO-STATE SOLUTION FOR ISRAEL AND PALESTINE

  
  July 27, 2021 14:35

  Source: Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME)

  https://www.cjpme.org/pr_2021_07_26_beyond_two_states

   

  Published July 26, 2021

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• Opinion | Ben & Jerry’s and 'Terrorism'? Lapid and Herzog Are Embarrassing Israel

  
  July 26, 2021 14:12

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-ben-jerry-s-and-terrorism-lapid-and-herzog-are-embarrassing-israel-1.10023414?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=haaretz-news&utm_content=111950d2cc

   

  By Ravit Hecht

  Published July 23, 2021

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• Palestine’s Struggle to Create Its Unique Narrative

  
  July 20, 2021 23:26

  Source: Governing

  https://www.governing.com/context/palestines-struggle-to-create-its-unique-narrative

   

  By Clay S. Jenkinson

  Published July 20, 2021

   

  America has had resounding success in telling the story of its birth and rise as a nation. So too has Israel during the 20th century. Now, Palestine must do the same if it wants to succeed, says Middle East scholar Rashid Khalidi.

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• The America that Israel and Palestine Need

  
  July 20, 2021 11:38

  Source: Project Syndicate

  https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/israel-palestine-conflict-needs-more-balanced-us-approach-by-mohamed-elbaradei-2021-07

   

  By MOHAMED ELBARADEI

  Published July 16, 2021

   

  Joe Biden promised to make democracy and human rights central to US foreign policy. But that means not insisting on Israel’s right to defend itself without mentioning its expansion of settlements in occupied Palestinian territory, its policy of discrimination, and its denial of the Palestinians’ right to an independent state.

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• 25 years after Berlin Wall fall / Apartheid Wall Comparison between Berlin Wall and the Israeli apartheid wall in Palestine

  
  June 24, 2021 12:58

  Source: https://attaallah.wordpress.com/2014/11/09/25-years-after-berlin-wall-fall-apartheid_wall-comparison-between-berlin_wall-and-the-israeli_apartheid_wall-in-palestine/

   

  By ABDALLAH ATTALLAH

  Published November 9, 2014

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• An American Kingdom

  
  July 14, 2021 13:26

  Source: The Washington Post

  https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/07/11/mercy-culture-church/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most&carta-url=https://s2.washingtonpost.com/car-ln-tr/3420f98/60ec673c9d2fda8060034242/597682b5ae7e8a6816d78e2c/9/70/60ec673c9d2fda8060034242

   

  By Stephanie McCrummen

  Published July 11, 2021

   

  A new and rapidly growing Christian movement is openly political, wants a nation under God’s authority, and is central to Donald Trump’s GOP

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• Opinion | Should Jews Fear Fanatically pro-Israel, Philosemitic U.S. Evangelicals?

  
  July 16, 2021 10:42

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-should-jews-fear-fanatically-pro-israel-philosemitic-u-s-evangelicals-1.9911159

   

  By Judah Isseroff

  Published June 16, 2021

   

  For Jews, what is more offensive – and more threatening? Today’s philosemitic Evangelicals, some with their venomous takes on Israel's new government, or yesteryear’s Christian theological antisemitism?

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• Genocide, apartheid? A poll Israel cannot allow itself to ignore

  
  July 16, 2021 10:47

  Source: The Times of Israel

  https://www.timesofisrael.com/genocide-apartheid-a-poll-israel-cannot-allow-itself-to-ignore/?utm_source=The+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=daily-edition-2021-07-15&utm_medium=email

   

  By DAVID HOROVITZ

  Published July 15, 2021

   

  Nobody who knows the reality in Israel could possibly believe it is committing genocide against the Palestinians. Yet 22% of US Jews apparently do. Alarm bells should be ringing

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