Common Grounds

Jews and Arabs Share Recent Ancestry

May 24, 2021 12:01
Source: Science

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2000/10/jews-and-arabs-share-recent-ancestry

By Ann Gibbons

Published October 30, 2000
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Is Biden Sensitive to Growing US Criticism of Israel?

May 20, 2021 12:24
Source: NRC Amerika

nrc.nl/amerika

By Merijn de Waal

Published May 18, 2021

Translated and edited by Abraham A. van Kempen

The conflict between Israel and the Palestinians is dominating world news - and is also occupying politics in Washington. In the meantime, the civil war in the Republican Party appears to have been resolved for the time being.
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Recognize Palestine … then the negotiations can begin

June 04, 2021 10:57
Source: Arab News

https://www.arabnews.com/node/1867501

By DAOUD KUTTAB

Published May 30, 2021
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The Gospel According to Q

August 03, 2021 14:20
Source: Project Syndicate

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/qanon-conspiracy-theories-connection-to-america-s-religious-right-by-nina-l-khrushcheva-2021-07?

By NINA L. KHRUSHCHEVA

Published July 29, 2021

According to Lord Acton, religious leaders should be held to a higher moral standard than ordinary people. Future historians should bear that advice in mind when assessing America’s religious right and its current leaders.
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Between the Holocaust and the Nakba, Two Histories – and Maybe a Shared Future

June 22, 2021 19:27
Source: Haaretz

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.HIGHLIGHT.MAGAZINE-between-the-holocaust-and-the-nakba-two-histories-and-maybe-a-shared-future-1.9915571

By David B. Green

Published June 18, 2021

Israeli professors Bashir Bashir and Amos Goldberg propose an original way of relating to these historical events that just might offer a new path toward ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
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It’s time for a new approach – The International Centre of Justice for Palestinians

June 22, 2021 19:07
Source: Jews for Justice for Palestinians

https://jfjfp.com/israel-palestine-offering-concern-solves-nothing-its-time-for-a-new-approach/

Crispin Blunt writes in Middle East Eye

Published June 21, 2021
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The Evangelical Pope | One World Religion? MANY!

June 21, 2021 13:04
Living Words from John Paul II

Edited by Abraham A. van Kempen

Published Sunday, June 20, 2021

"… Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. (1 John 4: 16)
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Israel and its western allies have run out of Palestinian enforcers

June 22, 2021 19:48
Source: Middle East Eye

https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/Israel-western-allies-run-out-Palestinian-enforcers

By Joseph Massad

Published June 11, 2021

A continuation of the strategy of finding client leaders cannot forestall the massive Palestinian anti-colonial revolt to come
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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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No Bibi? No Problem: Trump Allies Celebrate Israel’s New Breakthrough With Gulf States

June 29, 2021 13:43
Source: Haaretz

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-no-bibi-no-problem-trump-allies-laud-israel-s-new-breakthrough-with-gulf-states-1.9948985

By Allison Kaplan Sommer

Published June 28, 2021

As Foreign Minister Yair Lapid heads to the UAE for an unprecedented state visit, supporters of the 45th U.S. president see a continuation of the Abraham Accords, now with a new government in Israel
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