Common Grounds

After decades of waiting, Israel allows unification of some Palestinian Christians

January 31, 2022 11:02
Source: Maghtas Magazine

https://maghtas.com/2022/01/israel-allows-unification-of-palestinian-christians/#

By Daoud Kuttab

Published January 29, 2022
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Israeli military disciplines three officers in death of elderly Palestinian American

February 01, 2022 11:43
Source: The Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/01/31/israel-army-probe-omar-assad/

By Erin Cunningham

Published January 31, 2022

Omar Assad died after he was detained by Israeli soldiers in the West Bank
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Israel’s apartheid against Palestinians: a cruel system of domination and a crime against humanity

February 01, 2022 13:40
Source: Amnesty International

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/02/israels-apartheid-against-palestinians-a-cruel-system-of-domination-and-a-crime-against-humanity/

Published February 1, 2022
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Opinion | The Culture of the Occupation Is a Hothouse for Inhumanity

February 08, 2022 15:07
Source: Haaretz

https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-the-culture-of-the-occupation-is-a-hothouse-for-inhumanity-1.10583688

By Zvi Bar'el

Published February 2, 2022
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The person I should have been in unoccupied Palestine

February 08, 2022 15:17
Source: Mondoweiss

https://mondoweiss.net/2022/02/the-person-i-should-have-been-in-unoccupied-palestine/

By REEM A. HAMAD

Published February 3, 2022

Reem Hamadaqa is 22 years old and has never left the Gaza Strip. Photos in an old family album are her only window to a Palestine she has never seen.
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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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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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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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