Common Grounds

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• Analysis | So You Don’t Like the Two-state Solution? Meet the One-state Model

  
  December 23, 2021 22:41

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.HIGHLIGHT-so-you-don-t-like-the-two-state-solution-meet-the-one-state-model-1.10490651?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=haaretz-news&utm_content=7a176b0cf5&lts=1640283067350

   

  By Alon Pinkas

  Published December 23, 2021

   

  If the two-state solution is no longer viable or sustainable, as some say, what are the alternatives for Israel and the Palestinians? A primer on knowing your unitary state from your federal state, and more

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• 'Holy Land Confederation': Oslo Accords Architect Presents New Peace Plan

  
  February 10, 2022 11:36

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.HIGHLIGHT-holy-land-confederation-oslo-accords-architect-presents-new-peace-plan-1.10601495?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=haaretz-news&utm_content=15ea3dbd92

   

  By Allison Kaplan Sommer

  Published February 9, 2022

   

  Veteran Israeli peace negotiator Yossi Beilin and Palestinian attorney Hiba Husseini suggest the creation of a confederation, with people swaps involving settlers and refugees, as a way to revive the two state solution

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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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• 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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• 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 | 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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• 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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• Guterres lauds efforts of Israeli-Palestinian confederation plan authors

  
  February 17, 2022 14:40

  Source: Jerusalem Post

  https://www.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/article-696282

   

  By TOVAH LAZAROFF
  Published February 12, 2022

   

  The UN Secretary General has been a strong advocate of a two-state resolution to the conflict and reaffirmed that stance at a recent meeting.

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• 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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• 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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