Common Grounds

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• Breaking the Israel-Palestine Status Quo

  
  April 23, 2021 13:32

  Source: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

  https://carnegieendowment.org/2021/04/19/breaking-israel-palestine-status-quo-pub-84167

   

  By ZAHA HASSAN,  DANIEL LEVY,  HALLAAMAL KEIR,  MARWAN MUASHER
  Published April 19, 2021

   

  A new U.S. approach should prioritize protecting the rights and human security of Palestinians and Israelis over maintaining a peace process and attempting short-term fixes.

   

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• Don’t be scared of Biden’s commitment to Palestinian refugees

  
  April 21, 2021 14:06

  Source: Jews for Justice for Palestinians

  https://jfjfp.com/dont-be-scared-of-bidens-commitment-to-palestinian-refugees/

   

  Abe Silverstein writes in Haaretz on 12 April 2021

   

  The Biden administration's recognition of Palestinian refugees goes beyond reinstating aid: It walks back Trump's adoption of the right wing's fantastical, punitive dreams. The rest of the pro-Israel camp should welcome it

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• The End of the Forever War in Afghanistan

  
  April 26, 2021 13:16

  Source: NRC Amerika

  nrc.nl/amerika

   

  By Bas Blokker

  Published April 20, 2021

   

  Translated and edited by Abraham A. van Kempen

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• ‘One system, one policy’: Why Human Rights Watch is charging Israel with apartheid

  
  April 28, 2021 11:13

  Source: +972 Magazine

  https://www.972mag.com/hrw-apartheid-persecution-omar-shakir/

   

  By Amjad Iraqi

  Published April 27, 2021

   

  Israel has made it irrefutably clear it intends to make Jewish domination over Palestinians permanent between the river and the sea, says HRW's Omar Shakir in interview following landmark report.

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• OPINION | Europe Beware! Biden Is Here and There Trumpian

  
  April 30, 2021 12:32

  Source: NRC News,The Netherlands

  https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2021/04/28/in-bidens-eerste-100-dagen-blijft-het-america-first-a4041654?utm_intern=nrc-web-reacties#reacties

   

  By Ko Colijn

  Published April 30, 2021

   

  Translated and edited by Abraham A. van Kempen

   

  President Biden got off to a good start. But Europe must pay attention, says Ko Colijn*. The president draws his line. Sometimes it seems Trumpian.

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• It is necessary to be an anti-Zionist in order to reject anti-Semitism

  
  April 28, 2021 11:33

  Source: Middle East Monitor

  https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20210401-it-is-necessary-to-be-an-anti-zionist-in-order-to-reject-anti-semitism/

   

  By Asa Winstanley

  Published April 1, 2021

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• New bill would protect the rights of Palestinian children and families

  
  April 21, 2021 12:02

  Source: American Friends Service Committee

  https://www.afsc.org/newsroom/new-bill-would-protect-rights-palestinian-children-and-families?fbclid=IwAR1v9Esza0XWqeKXFGwAYn1s4p4daLC3Y7gXn_RFZ-wz5l0IGf9qOnCA3vw

   

  Published April 16, 2021

   

  Quaker org urges fast passage to protect human rights

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• What ties the U.S. and Israel together? Our arrogant, doomed mythology of exceptionalism

  
  April 20, 2021 18:05

  Source: Salon

  https://www.salon.com/2021/04/17/what-ties-the-us-and-israel-together-our-arrogant-doomed-mythology-of-exceptionalism/

   

  By DOUG NEISS

  Published April 17, 2021

   

  Our two nations are headed for doom, driven by the power of the Zionist right and a conviction we can do no wrong

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• Opinion | They're Israel's Far Right, Pro-ethnic Cleansing Nationalists. But Don't Call Them 'Nazis'

  
  April 13, 2021 15:58

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/.premium.HIGHLIGHT-they-re-israel-s-far-right-anti-arab-nationalists-but-don-t-call-them-nazis-1.9694208?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=weekend&utm_content=fa566b83bc

   

  By Anshel Pfeffer

  Published April 8, 2021

   

  On the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, far right leader Bezalel Smotrich threatened Palestinian citizens of Israel with ethnic cleansing. Calling him a Nazi is too easy a way out of the real, pressing problem his camp poses for Israel and Judaism

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• Why I left the cult

  
  April 13, 2021 15:16

  Source: Mondoweiss

  https://mondoweiss.net/2016/10/why-i-left-the-cult/

   

  By AVIGAIL ABARBANEL 

  Published October 8, 2016

   

                      All changed, changed utterly:
                      A terrible beauty is born.
                      –From Easter, 1916, by WB Yeats

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