Common Grounds

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• Biden Details $2 Trillion Plan to Rebuild Infrastructure and Reshape the Economy

  
  April 02, 2021 10:47

  Source: The New York Times

  https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/31/business/economy/biden-infrastructure-plan.html?campaign_id=9&emc=edit_nn_20210401&instance_id=28723&nl=the-morning&regi_id=69909790&segment_id=54658&te=1&user_id=

  f9c06872cc476fdf04233a4c100d7930

   

  By Jim Tankersley

  Published March 31, 2021

   

  The president began selling his proposal on Wednesday, saying it would fix 20,000 miles of roads and 10,000 bridges, while also addressing climate change and racial inequities and raising corporate taxes.

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• Essay – For the People, Of the People, By the People

  
  April 02, 2021 12:25

  By: Abraham A. van Kempen, Editor

   

  Biden’s Vision for America!

   

  Isn’t it ‘America First’ all over again? Maybe!

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• Lecture by Angela Davis Canceled after Pressure from Pro-Israel Students

  
  April 05, 2021 14:06

  Source: Palestine Chronicle

  https://www.palestinechronicle.com/lecture-by-angela-davis-canceled-after-pressure-from-pro-israel-students/

   

  Published April 1, 2021

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• The Evangelical Pope – Solidarity Improving the Living Conditions of All

  
  April 05, 2021 13:21

  Living Words from John Paul II

  Edited by Abraham A. van Kempen

   

  Published Sunday, April 4, 2021

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• Rabbi Alissa Wise’s love letter to anti-Zionist Jews, as she leaves ten years’ work with Jewish Voice for Peace

  
  April 06, 2021 13:46

  Source: Jewish Voice for Peace

  https://jewish-voice-for-peace.medium.com/rabbi-alissa-wises-love-letter-to-anti-zionist-jews-as-she-leaves-ten-years-work-with-jvp-d04776df54ff

   

  Published March 24, 2021

   

  We are not one thing, but we are — you are — everything

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• Opinion | A President in Handcuffs: Why Palestinians Should Vote for Barghouti

  
  April 06, 2021 15:20

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium.HIGHLIGHT-a-president-in-handcuffs-why-palestinians-should-vote-for-barghouti-1.9671926?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=daily-brief&utm_content=b6903cb670

   

  By Gideon Levy

  Published March 31, 2021

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• Blinken tells Israel: Palestinians should enjoy same rights, freedoms as you do

  
  April 06, 2021 14:57

  Source: The Times of Israel

  https://www.timesofisrael.com/blinken-tells-israel-palestinians-should-enjoy-same-rights-freedoms-as-you-do/?utm_source=The+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=daily-edition-2021-04-03&utm_medium=email

   

  By AFP and TOI STAFF

  Published April 3, 2021

   

  US secretary of state to Foreign Minister Ashkenazi: ‘Israelis and Palestinians should enjoy equal measures of freedom, security, prosperity and democracy’

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• Israel is losing the fight to obscure its apartheid character

  
  April 06, 2021 14:35

  Source: Middle East Eye

  https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israel-losing-fight-obscure-its-apartheid-character

   

  By Jonathan Cook

  Published January 14, 2021

   

  New report by rights group B'Tselem will make it harder to smear Israel's critics as antisemites for arguing that Israel is a racist state

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• William Barber preaches at Easter vigil service spotlighting Christian Palestinians

  
  April 07, 2021 10:24

  Source: Religion News Service

  https://religionnews.com/2021/04/06/william-barber-preaches-at-easter-vigil-service-acknowledging-christian-palestinians/

   

  By Daoud Kuttab

  Published April 6, 2021

   

  Barber’s appearance served to recognize Christians in the Palestinian liberation movement, which some American evangelicals paint as an apocalyptic conflict between Christians and Muslims.

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• The Evangelical Pope | Love One Another!

  
  April 12, 2021 12:05

  Living Words from John Paul II

  Edited by Abraham A. van Kempen

   

  Published Sunday, April 11, 2021

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