Common Grounds

Tell Trudeau: Condemn Israel’s illegal settlements with UN vote!

December 09, 2021 12:53
Source: Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East

https://www.cjpme.org/

Published December, 2021
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Analysis | Israel's New Gaza Border Barrier Proves That It Prefers Walls to War

December 09, 2021 11:59
Source: Haaretz

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.HIGHLIGHT-israel-s-new-gaza-border-barrier-proves-that-it-prefers-walls-to-war-1.10447949?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=daily-brief&utm_content=51ea886301

By Amos Harel

Published December 7, 2021

Would-be attackers in Gaza will probably seek and find more detours around the $1.1 billion wall, but a more urgent question remains: How will Israel deal with an escalation on more than one front?
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Israel Not Expected to Join ‘Bizarre’ U.S. Boycott of Winter Olympics in China

December 09, 2021 11:51
Source: Haaretz

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/israel-not-expected-to-join-bizarre-u-s-boycott-of-winter-olympics-in-china-1.10448868?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=daily-brief&utm_content=51ea886301

By Jonathan Lis

Published December 9, 2021

The comment by a senior Israeli official follows an announcement by the Biden administration that it will refrain from sending a political delegation to the games in Beijing in protest at China’s human rights record
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Opinion | The Settler-philosopher Everyone Loves to Love

December 07, 2021 14:33
Source: Haaretz

https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-the-settler-philosopher-everyone-loves-to-love-1.10440019?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=daily-brief&utm_content=8a994565d9

By Gideon Levy

Published December 4, 2021
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Israeli Arab City Bounced Back From Deadly Flareup, but Residents Fear Further Violence

December 07, 2021 14:19
Source: Haaretz

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-arab-city-bounced-back-from-deadly-flareup-but-residents-fear-further-violence-1.10439694?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=daily-brief&utm_content=8a994565d9

By Jack Khoury

Published December 4, 2021

After days of violent attacks and clashes, the Umm al-Fahm residents are still on edge
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Opinion | Who Will Stop Israel's Craziest Settlement Plan Ever?

December 07, 2021 14:11
Source: Haaretz

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-who-will-stop-israel-s-craziest-settlement-plan-ever-1.10440698?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=daily-brief&utm_content=8a994565d9

By Hagit Ofran

Published December 5, 2021

A new mega-settlement would be the death sentence for a viable future Palestinian state. But with the shameful silence of the 'pro-peace,' two state supporters in Israel's coalition government, the only hope for halting the plan rests with Biden and Blinken
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'I Showed Palestinians the Footage That Israel Looted. They Started to Cry'

December 06, 2021 11:21
Source: Haaretz

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.HIGHLIGHT.MAGAZINE-i-showed-palestinians-the-footage-that-israel-looted-they-started-to-cry-1.10438349?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=daily-brief&utm_content=8a994565d9

By Nirit Anderman

Published December 4, 2021

In the 1982 Lebanon War, the Israeli army raided the PLO archive in Beirut, confiscating numerous reels of film depicting Palestinian life. A new film by Karnit Mandel reveals her quest to find the mysterious footage
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UN envoy warns of risk of new Israel-Palestinian violence

December 03, 2021 11:59
Source: Haaretz

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/un-envoy-warns-of-risk-of-new-israel-palestinian-violence-1.10430090

The Associated Press

Published December 1, 2021

Tor Wennesland says parties must calm tensions, reduce violence across the Palestinian territories, avoid unilateral steps including new Israeli settlement building and solidify the May cease-fire
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Do China and Russia want to replace the US as mediators in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?

December 02, 2021 14:03
Source: Atlantic Council

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/menasource/do-china-and-russia-want-to-replace-the-us-as-mediators-in-the-israeli-palestinian-conflict/

By Richard LeBaron, Mohamed Bin Huwaidin, Daniel Rakov, Jonathan Fulton, and Joze Pelayo

Published May 21, 2021

This article is part of a strategic collaboration launched by the Atlantic Council (Washington, DC), the Emirates Policy Center (Abu Dhabi), and the Institute for National Security Studies (Tel Aviv). The authors are associated with the initiative’s Working Group on Chinese and Russian Power Projection in the Middle East. The views expressed by the authors are theirs and not their institutions’.
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These Jewish Migrants Survived Pogroms, Riots and Famine. Then They Were Faced With Zionist Cruelty

November 30, 2021 14:48
Source: Haaretz

https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/.premium.MAGAZINE-the-zionist-selection-the-movement-rejected-jewish-migrants-deemed-too-weak-or-sick-1.10422540?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=daily-brief&utm_content=829f0ff655

By Ofer Aderet

Published November 30, 2021

A century ago Zionist leaders strove to keep ‘weak people’ from immigrating. 'It is one of the most controversial disputes in the history of the Zionist movement'
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