Common Grounds

How a staunch rightist gave her kidney to a Gaza boy — simply to do a good deed

July 02, 2021 12:30
Source: The Times of Israel

https://www.timesofisrael.com/how-a-staunch-rightist-gave-her-kidney-to-a-gaza-boy-simply-to-do-a-good-deed/?utm_source=The+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=daily-edition-2021-07-01&utm_medium=email

By TANI GOLDSTEIN

Published May 30, 2021

Fighting furious objections from her family, Idit Harel Segal went through with the operation, hoping to live up to the morals her Holocaust-surviving grandfather taught her
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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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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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Why does everyone want Jerusalem? CNN investigates in a new docuseries

July 15, 2021 11:16
Source: The Forward

https://forward.com/culture/472875/jerusalem-city-of-faith-and-fury-cnn-docuseries-mcgregor-palestinian/?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=campaign_2522576

By PJ Grisar

Published July 13, 2021
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Ilhan Omar’s antisemitism poses a moment of reckoning for Democrats

July 16, 2021 10:51
Source: The Times of Israel

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/ilhan-omars-antisemitism-poses-a-moment-of-reckoning-for-democrats/?utm_source=The+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=daily-edition-2021-07-15&utm_medium=email

By John Hagee

Published July 15, 2021

Just as we have called out fellow Conservatives, Nancy Pelosi must choose between real leadership or shameful capitulation to the enemies of the Jewish people
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Opinion | Damn Them All

July 18, 2021 20:42
Source: Haaretz

https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-israel-should-have-treated-khalida-jarrar-with-humanity-1.10000031?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=haaretz-news&utm_content=389d7b7b0f&lts=1626374148433

By Gideon Levy

Published July 15, 2021
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Evangelical support for Israel is neither permanent nor inevitable

July 20, 2021 23:44
Source: The Conversation

https://theconversation.com/evangelical-support-for-israel-is-neither-permanent-nor-inevitable-164209

Published July 19, 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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Opinion | Messianism Is Israel’s Most Powerful Force, Embraced by Atheists Too

September 07, 2021 14:44
Source: Haaretz

https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-messianism-is-israel-s-most-powerful-force-embraced-by-atheists-too-1.10175325

By Assaf Harel

Published September 5, 2021

Seeing it simply as a religious West Bank phenomenon stifles debate. Differences among Jews and between Jews and non-Jews can be reduced, but first reality must be faced
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