Common Grounds

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• Opinion | ‘Dead Goyim Leg’: NBC's 'Antisemitic' TV Clip Is More Accurate Than We’d Like to Admit

  
  March 08, 2021 21:57

  Source Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-dead-goyim-leg-antisemitic-tv-clip-more-accurate-than-we-d-like-to-admit-1.9597514?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=haaretz-news&utm_content=4b140a06ac

   

  By Robby Berman

  Published March 3, 2012

   

  The outrage over the portrayal of an ultra-Orthodox family refusing a transplant from a non-Jew is hollow when so many Orthodox Jews hold racist attitudes towards gentiles and refuse to donate organs to them

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• Opinion | Picture Israeli Labor Party Leader Michaeli in Prison

  
  March 08, 2021 22:29

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-picture-israeli-labor-party-leader-michaeli-in-prison-1.9596277?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=breaking-news&utm_content=a89eb682c1

   

  By Gideon Levy

  Published March 6, 2021

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• Intense preparations before pontiff meets Iraqi ayatollah

  
  March 08, 2021 22:40

  Source: CHRON

  https://www.chron.com/news/article/Intense-preparation-paves-way-for-pontiff-to-meet-15995920.php

   

  By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and SAMYA KULLAB, Associated Press

  Published March 3, 2021

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• How Christian Evangelical Money and Biblical Prophecy Are Driving Immigration to Israel

  
  March 09, 2021 20:02

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.HIGHLIGHT-how-christian-evangelical-money-is-driving-immigration-to-israel-1.9590223?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=haaretz-news&utm_content=96ea17f883

   

  By Judy Maltz and Allison Kaplan Sommer

  Published March 8,2021

   

  Once the proud preserve of Jewish Diaspora organizations, aliyah funding is increasingly being ‘outsourced’ to deeply devout Christian groups with equally deep pockets and their own motives to encourage the ingathering of the exiles

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• Why Israel fears the ICC war crimes investigation

  
  March 04, 2021 20:02

  Source: Guardian

  https://www.theguardian.com/law/2021/mar/03/israeli-officials-start-to-feel-the-impact-of-icc-investigation

   

  By Peter Beaumont

  Published March 3, 2021

   

  Analysis: officials recognise there is a real risk of prosecution over the deadly 2014 conflict

   

  Report: ICC opens investigation into war crimes in Palestinian territories

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• Is Inflation Alive?

  
  March 04, 2021 19:28

  Source: Project Syndicate

  https://www.project-syndicate.org/bigpicture/is-inflation-alive?utm_source=Project%20Syndicate%20Newsletter&utm_campaign=3babda6500-covid_newsletter_03_04_2021&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_73bad5b7d8-3babda6500-93791313&mc_cid=3babda6500&mc_eid=284f1f0e24

   

  Published March 3, 2021

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• EVANGELICAL LEADERS ON CHRISTIAN NATIONALISM

  
  March 01, 2021 12:53

  Source: Ron Sider Blog

  https://ronsiderblog.substack.com/

   

  By Ron Sider

  Published February 25, 2021

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• Seven Black Swans in the Middle East

  
  March 02, 2021 12:26

  Source: Mosaic

  https://mosaicmagazine.com/observation/politics-current-affairs/2019/09/seven-black-swans-in-the-middle-east/

   

  By MARTIN KRAMER

  Published September 24, 2019

   

  From the Yom Kippur War to the Arab Spring, events considered impossible happen in the Middle East with unusual frequency. Here are seven; when will the eighth appear?

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• U.S. 'Firmly Opposed' to ICC War Crimes Probe That 'Targets Israel Unfairly'

  
  March 04, 2021 11:47

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-u-s-firmly-opposed-to-icc-war-crimes-probe-that-targets-israel-unfairly-1.9587871

   

  By Ben Samuels

  Published March 3, 2021

   

  State Department argues the International Criminal Court 'has no jurisdiction' over the Palestinian territories, after prosecutor's statement that was hailed by Palestinian leadership and denounced by Israel

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• ICC announces investigation into Israeli, Palestinian war crimes

  
  March 04, 2021 12:11

  Source: The Times of Israel

  https://www.timesofisrael.com/icc-announces-investigation-into-israeli-palestinian-war-crimes/?utm_source=The+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=daily-edition-2021-03-03&utm_medium=email

   

  By LAZAR BERMAN 

  Published March 3, 2021

   

  Chief Prosecutor Bensouda promises to investigate ‘impartially and objectively’; her look back starts from the day after 3 Israeli teens were murdered in West Bank in 2014

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