Common Grounds

Are Modern Prophets NEVER Wrong?

February 15, 2021 12:23
By: Abraham A. van Kempen, Editor
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Opinion / Want Israeli-Palestinian Peace? Try Confederation

February 13, 2021 18:07
Source: The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/12/opinion/israel-palestinian-confederation.html

By Bernard Avishai and Sam Bahour

Published February 12, 2021

Politicians and experts should not doubt a two-state solution. But they should finally consider a plausible version of it.
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Christian Prophets Are on the Rise. What Happens When They’re Wrong?

February 13, 2021 17:23
Source: The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/11/us/christian-prophets-predictions.html?searchResultPosition=1

By Ruth Graham

Published February 11, 2021

They are stars within one of the fastest-growing corners of American Christianity. Now, their movement is in crisis.
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Reviewing US policy on Palestine, with Professor Rashid Khalidi

February 16, 2021 15:38
Source: Middle East Monitor

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20210210-memo-in-conversation-with-professor-rashid-khalidi-2/

By Nasim Ahmed

Published February 10,2021

Khalidi is the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University and the director of the Middle East Institute of Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs.
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America Is (Sort of) Back

February 18, 2021 12:16
Source: Project Syndicate

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/biden-foreign-policy-challenges-credibility-by-shlomo-ben-ami-2021-02

By SHLOMO BEN-AMI

Published February 17, 2021

From its botched pandemic response to the storming of the US Capitol on January 6, America’s political dysfunction has lately been on stark display. And that is only one obstacle President Joe Biden's administration faces in pursuing a robust foreign policy.
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Raghuram G. Rajan Says More…

February 18, 2021 13:28
Source: Project Syndicate

https://www.project-syndicate.org/say-more/an-interview-with-raghuram-g-rajan-2021-01?utm_source=Project%20Syndicate%20Newsletter&utm_campaign=fdcfb2f10c-contributor_newsletter_schwab_09_02_2021&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_73bad5b7d8-fdcfb2f10c-93791313&mc_cid=fdcfb2f10c&mc_eid=284f1f0e24

Published January 26, 2021

This week in Say More, PS talks with Raghuram G. Rajan, a former governor of the Reserve Bank of India and a professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
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The Seven Secrets of 2020

February 18, 2021 13:07
Source: Project Syndicate

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/seven-secrets-revealed-by-2020-by-yanis-varoufakis-2020-12?barrier=accesspaylog

By YANIS VAROUFAKIS

Published December 28, 2020

This year has resembled a rapidly receding tide, forcing us to confront submerged truths. One lesson we learned in 2020 is that national governments had been choosing not to exercise their enormous powers so that those whom globalization had enriched could exercise their own.
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Biden and the Fed Leave 1970s Inflation Fears Behind

February 18, 2021 12:49
Source: The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/15/business/economy/biden-fed-inflation-covid.html?campaign_id=9&emc=edit_nn_20210215&instance_id=27155&nl=the-morning&regi_id=146080032&segment_id=51724&te=1&user_id=e

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By Jim Tankersley and Jeanna Smialek

Published February 15, 2021

Administration and Fed officials argue that workers not getting enough stimulus help is a larger concern than potential spikes in consumer prices.
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I am a Jew and I want Palestinians heard in court

February 12, 2021 15:16
Source: Jews for Justice for Palestinians (JFJFP)

https://jfjfp.com/i-am-a-jew-and-i-want-palestinians-heard-in-court/

Marilyn Garson writes in The Palestine Chronicle

Published February 8, 2021
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Israelis, Palestinians want separation, skeptical of solutions - study

February 12, 2021 15:07
ource: The Jerusalem Post

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/study-israelis-palestinians-want-separation-skeptical-of-solutions-658468

By LAHAV HARKOV

Published February 10, 2021

Israeli Jews and Arabs, as well as West Bank and Gazan Palestinians, were more likely to be uncertain about conflict solutions.
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