Common Grounds

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• ‘Israel has a stranglehold on Congress’ – Former Congressman Traficant

  
  February 01, 2021 13:36

  ource: If Americans Knew 

  https://israelpalestinenews.org/former-congressman-traficant-israel-has-a-stranglehold-on-congress/

   

  Published January 29, 2021

   

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• No Peace Without Justice, No Justice Without Forgiveness

  
  February 01, 2021 16:13

  By: Abraham A. van Kempen, Editor

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• Destroying Armageddon: The Apocalypse as a Tourism Attraction

  
  February 01, 2021 15:07

  ource: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium-destroying-armageddon-the-apocalypse-as-a-tourism-attraction-1.9488179?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=haaretz-news&utm_content=18ac36a0cb

   

  By Ruth Schuster

  Published January 31, 2021

   

  Snags to creating a park starring Tell Megiddo, a proto-church, a unique Roman legion camp and much more, include a pesky prison smack in the middle and the billion-shekel bill to move it – and the plan to expand a highway

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• Anti-Semitism and Israel: Right-wing Zionists play a deadly word game

  
  January 26, 2021 13:39

  Source: Salon

  https://www.salon.com/2021/01/24/anti-semitism-and-israel-zionists-hope-to-crush-dissent-with-mendacious-word-games/

   

  By DOUG NEISS
  Published January 24, 2021

   

  An expanded definition of "anti-Semitism" is primarily meant to silence Jewish critics of Israel. It won't work

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• Opinion | Is 'Jewish' a Nationality or Religion? Inside Israel's Fierce, Bitter Debate About Identity

  
  January 25, 2021 18:06

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-is-jewish-a-nationality-or-religion-israel-s-fierce-bitter-debate-about-identity-1.9408781?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=breaking-news&utm_content=2c5e823431

   

  By Simon J. Rabinovitch

  Published on 31.12.2020

   

  How one man’s quest, half a century ago, for the right to define his own family’s identity unwittingly set up a momentous clash between Israel’s secular and religious power centers, changed the Law of Return and still fuels conflict over who is a Jew

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• President Biden, you Need to Hear this: Respected Israeli Rights Group B’Tselem declares Israel an Apartheid State

  
  January 20, 2021 13:14

  ource: "Juan Cole"

  https://www.juancole.com/2021/01/president-respected-apartheid.html

   

  By Juan Cole

  Published January 17, 2021

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• Who Really Supports Nonviolence?

  
  January 20, 2021 12:42

  Source: The Beinart Notebook

  https://peterbeinart.substack. com/p/who-really-supports- nonviolence?token= eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo0MzkyODM5LCJwb3 N0X2lkIjozMTYyMjk0OSwiXyI6IkF3 b2RwIiwiaWF0IjoxNjExMDgzMjcyLC JleHAiOjE2MTEwODY4NzIsImlzcyI6 InB1Yi0xMDUyNjAiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3 N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0. kLJTs4mOHUPwhZ2PhoNFq- hgfzlsySr2lWaYo_vj7dY

   

  By Peter Beinart

  Published January 18, 2021

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• For Evangelical Christians, Trump left but God didn’t - analysis

  
  January 21, 2021 17:44

  Source: The Jerusalem Post

  https://www.jpost.com/american-politics/for-evangelical-christians-trump-left-but-god-didnt-analysis-656127?traffic_source=Connatix

   

  By MAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN   JANUARY 20, 2021

  Published January 20, 2021

   

  "The Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh away" - Job 1:21

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• READ: Youth poet laureate Amanda Gorman's inaugural poem

  
  January 22, 2021 12:22

  Source: CNN

  https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/20/politics/amanda-gorman-inaugural-poem-transcript/index.html?campaign_id=9&emc=edit_nn_20210121&instance_id=26239&nl=the-morning&regi_id=69909790&segment_id=49887&te=1&user_

  id=f9c06872cc476fdf04233a4c100d7930

   

  Published January 21, 2012

   

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• I Love That Palestinian Look … the Colors of His Shawl

  
  January 25, 2021 14:12

  By: Abraham A. van Kempen, Editor

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