Common Grounds

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• Sisi’s Brand of Islam

  
  November 04, 2021 14:42

  Source: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

  https://carnegieendowment.org/sada/85621?utm_source=rssemail&utm_medium=email&mkt_tok=MDk1LVBQVi04MTMAAAGAQpPnWuh0wEw4-C0vcd5lO05oLJkdTorAD8bUDJUOW0rntytvOxmhxChzreJ5MbFyqT0sKbpcnzff-PubNf6AdCOqGEX-7HJ0D6xXS5_NDUI

   

  By MAGED MANDOUR

  Published October 21, 2021

   

  Sisi’s call for religious renewal falls within the regime’s attempt to centralize power in its hands by creating a top-down version of state sponsored Islam anchored in conservative social values.

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• 13 European states call on Israel to halt plans for 3,000 settlement homes

  
  October 29, 2021 13:08

  Source: The Times of Israel

  https://www.timesofisrael.com/13-european-states-call-on-israel-to-halt-plans-for-3000-settlement-homes/?utm_source=The+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=daily-edition-2021-10-28&utm_medium=email

   

  By TOI STAFF and AFP

  Published October 28, 2021

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• CMEP Supports Biden Administration's Opposition to the Israeli Government’s Approval of New Settlement Construction

  
  October 29, 2021 12:54

  Source: Churches for Middle East Peace (CMEP) 

  Published October 28, 2021

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• Israeli authorities are authorizing 3,144 new squatter dwellings on Palestinian land

  
  October 29, 2021 12:22

  Friday's message by Rev. Sandra R Mackie

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• Where is Palestine?: A story of loss, inequality and failure

  
  October 19, 2021 14:34

  Source: OCHA Services

  https://reliefweb.int/report/occupied-palestinian-territory/where-palestine-story-loss-inequality-and-failure-september

   

  Published September 2021

   

  New report warns unequal status quo in Israel and Palestine will lead to more violence

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• Analysis | What Trump Accidentally Got Right on Israel and Congress

  
  November 04, 2021 15:20

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium.HIGHLIGHT-what-trump-accidentally-got-right-on-israel-and-congress-1.10347033?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=haaretz-news&utm_content=878cbe2595&lts=1635906252668

   

  By Alon Pinkas

  Published November 2, 2021

   

  When the former U.S. president said Israel is no longer a consensus issue in Congress, he attributed it to AOC and Ilhan Omar. But the real reasons for the change lie much closer to Trump Tower

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• Zionism’s Original Sin: Ignoring the Fact That Palestine Was Fully Populated

  
  November 09, 2021 15:55

  Source: Washinton Report on Middle East Affairs

  https://www.wrmea.org/israel-palestine/zionisms-original-sin-ignoring-the-fact-that-palestine-was-fully-populated.html

   

  By ALLAN C. BROWNFELD

  Published November 4, 2021

   

  Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, November/December 2021, pp. 12-13, 21

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• The Evangelical Pope | Brandenburg – The Gate of Freedom

  
  November 08, 2021 11:03

  Living Words from John Paul II

  Edited by Abraham A. van Kempen

   

  Published Sunday, November 7, 2021

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• Opinion | First Saudi Arabia, Now Sudan: Why Israel's Normalization Strategy Is Imploding

  
  November 05, 2021 11:12

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/saudi-arabia-to-sudan-why-israel-s-normalization-strategy-is-imploding-1.10353622?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=haaretz-news&utm_content=b025df3c19

   

  By Yonatan Touval

  Published November 5, 2021

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• Israeli moves in the West Bank cause new frictions with Biden administration

  
  October 29, 2021 12:07

  Source:The Washington Post

  https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/israel-settlements-coalition-politics/2021/10/28/6acf55d8-373b-11ec-9662-399cfa75efee_story.html

   

  By Steve Hendrix and Shira Rubin

  Published October 28, 2021

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