Common Grounds

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• Sisi’s Brand of Islam

  
  November 04, 2021 14:42

  Source: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

  https://carnegieendowment.org/sada/85621?utm_source=rssemail&utm_medium=email&mkt_tok=MDk1LVBQVi04MTMAAAGAQpPnWuh0wEw4-C0vcd5lO05oLJkdTorAD8bUDJUOW0rntytvOxmhxChzreJ5MbFyqT0sKbpcnzff-PubNf6AdCOqGEX-7HJ0D6xXS5_NDUI

   

  By MAGED MANDOUR

  Published October 21, 2021

   

  Sisi’s call for religious renewal falls within the regime’s attempt to centralize power in its hands by creating a top-down version of state sponsored Islam anchored in conservative social values.

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• 13 European states call on Israel to halt plans for 3,000 settlement homes

  
  October 29, 2021 13:08

  Source: The Times of Israel

  https://www.timesofisrael.com/13-european-states-call-on-israel-to-halt-plans-for-3000-settlement-homes/?utm_source=The+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=daily-edition-2021-10-28&utm_medium=email

   

  By TOI STAFF and AFP

  Published October 28, 2021

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• Analysis | What Trump Accidentally Got Right on Israel and Congress

  
  November 04, 2021 15:20

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium.HIGHLIGHT-what-trump-accidentally-got-right-on-israel-and-congress-1.10347033?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=haaretz-news&utm_content=878cbe2595&lts=1635906252668

   

  By Alon Pinkas

  Published November 2, 2021

   

  When the former U.S. president said Israel is no longer a consensus issue in Congress, he attributed it to AOC and Ilhan Omar. But the real reasons for the change lie much closer to Trump Tower

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• Opinion | First Saudi Arabia, Now Sudan: Why Israel's Normalization Strategy Is Imploding

  
  November 05, 2021 11:12

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/saudi-arabia-to-sudan-why-israel-s-normalization-strategy-is-imploding-1.10353622?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=haaretz-news&utm_content=b025df3c19

   

  By Yonatan Touval

  Published November 5, 2021

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• Zionism’s Original Sin: Ignoring the Fact That Palestine Was Fully Populated

  
  November 09, 2021 15:55

  Source: Washinton Report on Middle East Affairs

  https://www.wrmea.org/israel-palestine/zionisms-original-sin-ignoring-the-fact-that-palestine-was-fully-populated.html

   

  By ALLAN C. BROWNFELD

  Published November 4, 2021

   

  Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, November/December 2021, pp. 12-13, 21

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• Analysis | Jerusalem Has All the Ingredients for a New Intifada - but So Far It Hasn't Happened

  
  May 10, 2021 14:57

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.HIGHLIGHT-jerusalem-has-all-the-ingredients-for-a-new-intifada-but-so-far-it-hasn-t-happened-1.9788002

   

  By Anshel Pfeffer

  Published May 9, 2021

   

  The confluence of events in Jerusalem over the past few weeks has turned the city into a powder keg once more, with aggressive policing from inexperienced leaders one of the main culprits. But that doesn't mean a third intifada is now inevitable

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• CMEP Supports Biden Administration's Opposition to the Israeli Government’s Approval of New Settlement Construction

  
  October 29, 2021 12:54

  Source: Churches for Middle East Peace (CMEP) 

  Published October 28, 2021

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• Israeli authorities are authorizing 3,144 new squatter dwellings on Palestinian land

  
  October 29, 2021 12:22

  Friday's message by Rev. Sandra R Mackie

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• ANTI-ZIONISM IS NOT ANTISEMITISM - Over 500 Scholars Launch Fightback Against Israel Lobby’s Antisemitism Smear of UK Academics

  
  October 26, 2021 15:43

  Source: MintPress News

  https://www.mintpressnews.com/over-500-scholars-launch-fightback-against-israel-lobbys-antisemitism-smear-of-uk-academics/278772/

   

  by Jonathan Cook

  Published October 25, 2021

   

  The question, raised by the petition and letter of complaint, is whether universities like Glasgow will continue to submit to such attacks on academic life under the cover of false or evidence-free claims of anti-Semitism.

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• Breaking The Line of the Israel-Palestine Conflict

  
  October 26, 2021 14:42

  Source: Modern Diplomacy

  https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2021/10/21/breaking-the-line-of-the-israel-palestine-conflict/

   

  By Ogiandhafiz Juanda

  Published October 21, 2021

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