Common Grounds

Will a Holy Land Confederation Help Resolve the Long Simmering Palestinian-Israeli Dispute?

February 17, 2022 15:38
Source: InDepthNews

https://www.indepthnews.net/index.php/the-world/middle-east/5087-will-a-holy-land-confederation-help-resolve-the-long-simmering-palestinian-israeli-dispute

By Thalif Deen

Published February 16, 2022

Only a political solution will end the “senseless and costly cycles of violence” between Israelis and Palestinians, UN Middle East envoy Tor Wennesland said at a briefing to the Security Council in 2021.
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In Ukraine’s vulnerability, a reminder for Israel

February 18, 2022 12:57
Source: The Times of Israel

https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-ukraines-vulnerability-a-reminder-for-israel/?utm_source=The+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=daily-edition-2022-02-17&utm_medium=email

By DAVID HOROVITZ

Published February 17, 2022

One country invading another is ‘so 20th century,’ our foreign minister said. Except, as he went on to acknowledge, it’s all too plainly a threat in the here and now
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‘Tantura’ Documentary Maintains Israel’s Defense of its Ethnic Cleansing

February 22, 2022 15:18
Source: Inside Arabia

https://insidearabia.com/tantura-documentary-maintains-israels-defense-of-its-ethnic-cleansing/

By Ramona Wadi

Published February 14, 2022

Israeli narratives of Tantura’s ethnic cleansing do not hold Israel accountable for its ongoing Nakba. Despite the information hitting Israeli society, the accounts themselves invalidate the Palestinian experience by defending the Zionist colonial project – this is also true of the latest documentary on the subject titled “Tantura”.
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Israeli, Palestinian figures propose 2-state confederation

February 17, 2022 14:28
Source: aol.com

https://www.aol.com/israeli-palestinian-figures-propose-2-060904875-162449396.html

By JOSEPH KRAUSS, ASSOCIATED PRESS

Published February 7, 2022

Israel Palestinians Confederation Plan

Yossi Beilin, a former senior Israeli official and peace negotiator who co-founded the Geneva Initiative, poses for a photo at his house in Tel Aviv, Israel, Sunday, Feb. 6, 2022. Israeli and Palestinian public figures, including Beilin and Hiba Husseini, a former legal advisor to the Palestinian negotiating team who hails from a prominent Jerusalem family, have drawn up a new proposal for a two-state confederation that they hope will offer a way forward after a decade-long stalemate in Mideast peace efforts.

(AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Opinion | If Speaking Against Injustice Is Antisemitic, I'm an Antisemite

February 15, 2022 15:22
Source: Haaretz

https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/if-speaking-out-against-injustice-is-antisemitic-i-m-an-antisemite-1.10600450

By Akiva Eldar

Published February 9, 2022
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The Evangelical Pope | Love … A River Flowing Through Life

February 14, 2022 12:15
Living Words from John Paul II

Edited by Abraham A. van Kempen

Published Sunday, November 1, 2020
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Over 250 US Rabbis Demand End of Jewish Settler Violence in Palestine

February 15, 2022 14:35
Source: Palestine Chronicle

https://www.palestinechronicle.com/over-250-us-rabbis-demand-end-of-jewish-settler-violence-in-palestine/

By Palestine Chronicle Staff

Published February 10, 2022
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Opinion: Another group recognized Israel’s Palestinian apartheid. How will the world react?

February 15, 2022 15:05
Source: Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/02/13/israel-palestinians-amnesty-international-apartheid-wil-the-wolrd-act/

By Mariam Barghouti
Published February 13, 2022
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It’s Now Putin’s Plan B in Ukraine vs. Biden’s and Zelensky’s Plan A

March 21, 2022 09:51
Source: The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/20/opinion/putin-zelensky-ukraine.html?campaign_id=225&emc=edit_nttf_20220320&instance_id=56252&nl=thomas-friedman&regi_id=69909790&segment_id=86063&te=1&user_id=f9c06872cc476fdf04233a4c100d7930

By Thomas L. Friedman

Published March 20, 2022
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The Grimmest Dilemma

March 21, 2022 13:26
Source: The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/21/briefing/russia-ukraine-schelling-cold-war.html

By David Leonhardt

Published March 21, 2022

The Biden administration is facing an old Cold War dilemma: Be weak or risk a world war.
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