Common Grounds

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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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• Opinion | How Do You Say Ku Klux Klan in Hebrew?

  
  February 02, 2021 11:48

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-how-do-you-say-ku-klux-klan-in-hebrew-1.9500745?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=haaretz-news&utm_content=152d4a9672

   

  By Michael Sfard

  Published January 02, 2021

   

  Those subjected to Israel’s occupation have been abandoned to the occupiers' cruelty, as a result of the weakness of the country's army, law enforcement and security establishment

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• Multilateral Cooperation for Global Recovery

  
  February 04, 2021 13:13

  Source: Project Syndicate

  https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/multilateralism-for-the-masses-by-emmanuel-macron-et-al-2020-02?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=macron2021&utm_post-date=2021-02-03&utm_source=Project+Syndicate+Newsletter&utm_campaign=00d1a39859-Macron+Content+Mailing+02_03_2021&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_73bad5b7d8-00d1a39859-93791313

   

  Published February 3, 2021

  EMMANUEL MACRON, ANGELA MERKEL, MACKY SALL, ANTÓNIO GUTERRES, CHARLES MICHEL, URSULA VON DER LEYEN

   

  We should not be afraid of a post-pandemic world that will not be the same as the status quo ante. We should embrace it and use all appropriate fora and available opportunities to make it a better world by advancing the cause of international cooperation.

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• Israel's Normalization Pacts Not a Substitute for Peace With Palestinians, State Dept. Says

  
  February 04, 2021 12:39

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-state-dept-israel-normalization-pacts-not-a-substitute-for-peace-with-palestinians-1.9505778?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=daily-brief&utm_content=8a6748ad73

   

  By Ben Samuels

  Published February 2, 2021

   

  In first press briefing, State Department Spokesman Ned Price confirms aid to Palestinians will resume 'very quickly,' urges regional powers to build bridges in order to achieve Israeli-Palestinian peace

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• Yavne: A Jewish Case for Equality in Israel-Palestine

  
  February 02, 2021 15:43

  Source: Jewish Currents

  https://jewishcurrents.org/yavne-a-jewish-case-for-equality-in-israel-palestine/

   

  By Peter Beinart

  Editor at large of Jewish Currents

  Published July 8, 2020

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• I live among evangelicals, and admired them. Now I think a reckoning is due.

  
  January 28, 2021 17:25

  Source: Forward

  https://forward.com/opinion/462884/evangelicals-trump-reckoning-is-due/?utm_source=PostUp&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Newsletter%20USE%20THIS%20ONE&utm_maildate=01/26/2021

   

  By Mark I. Pinsky

  Published January 26, 2021

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• Jon Stewart on Liberal Hypocrisy, Donald Trump and Dog Whistles

  
  January 28, 2021 17:12

  Source: Forward

  https://forward.com/schmooze/354884/jon-stewart-on-liberal-hypocrisy-donald-trump-and-dog-whistles/

   

  By Talya Zax

  Published November 18, 2016

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• Our Prayer: Evangelicals Help End the Israeli-Palestinian Apocalypse!

  
  January 22, 2021 16:49

  By: Abraham A. van Kempen, Editor

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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

   

  Watch the video HERE

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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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