Common Grounds

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• New opportunities in evolving Middle East

  
  September 14, 2021 14:53

  Source: New Age

  https://www.newagebd.net/article/148938/new-opportunities-in-evolving-middle-east

   

  By Jeff Halper

  Published September 13,2021

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• How Did Religious Jews Become the Most Enthusiastic Supporters of the Occupation?

  
  September 07, 2021 14:05

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.HIGHLIGHT.MAGAZINE-how-did-religious-jews-become-enthusiastic-supporters-of-the-occupation-1.10177974

   

  By Mikhael Manekin

  Published September 3, 2021

   

  Violence and plunder were always anathema in Judaism. What went wrong?

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• Analysis | Bennett-Biden Meeting Opened No Doors, but Left a Crack for the Palestinians

  
  September 03, 2021 13:20

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.HIGHLIGHT-bennett-biden-meeting-opened-no-doors-but-left-a-crack-for-the-palestinians-1.10161877

   

  By Jack Khoury

  Published August 29, 2021

   

  The Palestinian leadership realizes the Bennett government will last longer than anticipated. They only ask Israel to honor existing agreements, in a bid to prevent unilateral measures and restore stability

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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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• Opinion | On Rosh Hashanah, Jews Everywhere Are Commanded to Mark the First Nakba

  
  September 07, 2021 15:23

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-on-rosh-hashanah-jews-everywhere-are-commanded-to-mark-the-first-nakba-1.10183234

   

  By Bradley Burston

  Published SEptember 5, 2021

   

  We begin our year by turning the Torah scroll to the story of the first Nakba, the expulsion of Hagar and Ishmael, a story of shame, guilt and moral failure

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• Israeli And Palestinian Women: The Only Way Forward Is Together

  
  September 09, 2021 15:17

  Source: Forbes

  https://www.forbes.com/sites/allisonnorlian/2021/09/03/israeli-and-palestinian-women-the-only-way-forward-is-together/?sh=6c5fc19b5625

   

  By Allison Norlian

  Published September 4, 2021

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• Liberal Zionism is dying. Will foregoing the Jewish state save it?

  
  August 17, 2021 15:01

  Source: Jews for Justice for Palestinians

  https://jfjfp.com/liberal-zionism-is-dying-will-foregoing-the-jewish-state-save-it/

   

  Shaul Magid wries a book review in +972

  Published August 16, 2021

   

  A new book calls for Zionism to be re-envisioned as a binational project in order to shed Jewish historical trauma and salvage democratic values.

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• If no more two-state solution, then what? - opinion

  
  August 17, 2021 13:41

  Source: The Jerusalem Post

  https://www.jpost.com/opinion/if-no-more-two-state-solution-then-what-opinion-676472

   

  By GERSHON BASKIN 

  Published: August 12, 2021

   

  ENCOUNTERING PEACE: THIS IS not a shallow argument of one state or two states; the political solutions of the future will probably be much more complex.

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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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• 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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