Common Grounds

‘Is this a state or a security company?’

August 02, 2017 12:05
Source: JEWS FOR JUSTICE FOR PALESTINIANS

http://jfjfp.com/?p=94062

By Yossi Verter, Analysis Haaretz premium
Published July 28, 2017

Behind the scenes of Netanyahu’s Flip-flop on the Temple Mount
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Cracks in the security apparatus

August 02, 2017 12:29
Source: JEWS FOR JUSTICE FOR PALESTINIANS

http://jfjfp.com/?p=94077

Two articles, 1) Farah Najjar and Zena Tahhan, Al Jazeera, on flaws in the security system; 2) Al Jazeera: “We won!”
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Ancient DNA solves mystery of the Canaanites, reveals the biblical people’s fate

July 28, 2017 14:55
Source: The Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/07/27/ancient-dna-solves-mystery-of-the-canaanites-reveals-the-biblical-peoples-fate/?utm_term=.ac5d92f6ede6&wpisrc=nl_az_most&wpmk=1

By Ben Guarino

Published July 27 2017

In the Bronze Age, between 4,000 and 3,000 years ago, a diverse group of people called the Canaanites lived in the Middle East. Despite their culture and influence — one of the only golden calf idols discovered was found in the Canaan seaport of Ashqelon — they left behind little information about themselves. Other civilizations made records of them, such as the Greeks, Egyptians and the authors of the Hebrew Bible. But, without Canaanite texts to cite, scholars view the ancient people as a bit of an enigma.
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Opinion // The Mantra of 'United' Jerusalem Is a Macabre Joke

August 03, 2017 12:08
Source: Haaretz

http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.804634

By Amira Hass

Published Aug 02, 2017

If Beit Hanina and Sur Baher interest Jews, it's because they have unused land that can still be stolen from the Palestinians to build a Zionist fortress
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Opinion // It's Not About Flags: The Real Problem With Jewish-Palestinian Dialogue

August 03, 2017 12:19
Source: Haaretz

http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.804781

By Jonathan S. Tobin

Published Aug 03, 2017

The American Jewish left is deeply invested in a form of asymmetric dialogue that too often requires co-opting Jewish kids to denounce the sins of Zionism
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Opinion // Netanyahu Jr. Refuses to Pick Up Dog Poop, Then Claws at His Critics

August 03, 2017 12:41
Source: Haaretz

http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.804628

By Uri Misgav

Published Aug 02, 2017

25-year-old Yair Netanyahu responds to bad press with scathing attacks on the New Israel Fund and sons of former Israeli prime ministers
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Opinion // Netanyahu's Looming Fall Is No Cause for Celebration

August 07, 2017 13:47
Source: Haaretz

http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/1.805296

By Gideon Levy

Published Aug 06, 2017

King Bibi’s departure is a necessary step, but by no means enough. Only a revolution in thinking will generate change in Israel
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Loving Israel, Hating Jews

August 07, 2017 15:33
Source: Tikun Olam

https://www.richardsilverstein.com/2017/08/06/loving-israel-hating-jews/

By Richard Silverstein

Published August 6, 2017

Boy, that headline should bring some of you up short. I know when I was a liberal Zionist a few decades ago, it would’ve struck me as exceedingly strange. Then, ‘Zionist’ was a synonym for ‘Jew.’ You couldn’t be a Zionist without being a Jew. And except for a few outliers who seemed beyond the Pale, you couldn’t be a Jew without being a Zionist. How things have changed.
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Israel’s treatment of Palestinians looks “a lot like apartheid”

August 08, 2017 11:17
Source: JEWS FOR JUSTICE FOR PALESTINIANS

http://jfjfp.com/?p=94107

By Jonathan Cook, Mondoweiss
Published 1 August 2017

Jodi Rudoren admits Palestinians experience ‘apartheid’ – but not in NYT
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Netanyahu backs a new major exercise in ethnic cleansing

August 08, 2017 12:01
Source: JEWS FOR JUSTICE FOR PALESTINIANS

http://jfjfp.com/?p=94142

Middle East Eye,
4 August 2017

Netanyahu alarms Umm al-Fahm with talk of population swap

After al-Aqsa attack, Israeli PM backs controversial transfer plan of far-right defence minister, Avigdor Lieberman
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