Common Grounds

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• Russia's Sergei Lavrov Compares Ukraine to Palestine

  
  May 17, 2022 14:32

  Source: Newsweek

  https://www.newsweek.com/russia-sergei-lavrov-compares-ukraine-palestine-putin-israel-1706810

   

  By JACK DUTTON

  Published May 16, 2022

   

  Watch the VIDEO HERE

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• A Ukrainian City Under a Violent New Regime

  
  May 18, 2022 17:48

  Source: The Newyorker

  https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/05/23/a-ukrainian-city-under-a-violent-new-regime

   

  By Joshua Yaffa
  Published May 16, 2022

   

  How the Russian occupation transformed life in Melitopol.

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• Abu Akleh’s brother slams police ‘brutal force’ at funeral, expresses hope for peace

  
  May 16, 2022 11:33

  Source: The Times of Israel

  https://www.timesofisrael.com/abu-aklehs-brother-slams-police-brutal-force-at-funeral-expresses-hope-for-peace/?utm_source=The+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=daily-edition-2022-05-15&utm_medium=email

   

  By AARON BOXERMAN

  Published May 15, 2022

   

  Anton Abu Akleh, brother of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen who was killed in Jenin last week, calls Israeli police account of violence at her funeral ‘illogical and untrue’

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• Read: Vladimir Putin’s victory day speech in full

  
  May 12, 2022 15:43

  Source: The Spectator

  https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/read-vladimir-putin-s-victory-day-speech-in-full

   

  Published May 9, 2022

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• Soft Power After Ukraine

  
  May 08, 2022 22:15

  Source: Project Syndicate

  https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/soft-power-after-russia-war-in-ukraine-by-joseph-s-nye-2022-05

   

  By JOSEPH S. NYE, JR.

  Published May 3, 2022

   

  While hard military power will decide the outcome of Russia's war in Ukraine, the power of values, persuasion, and attraction are hardly irrelevant. Though soft power tends to operate more subtly and over a longer time horizon, it has nonetheless emerged as a key feature of Ukraine's defense.

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• Opinion | What's God Got to Do With It? How Religion Fuels the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

  
  May 10, 2022 14:42

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.HIGHLIGHT-what-s-god-got-to-do-with-it-how-religion-fuels-the-israel-palestinian-conflict-1.10787533

   

  By Dahlia Scheindlin

  Published May 9, 2022

   

  Surveys of Israelis and Palestinians are definitive: There's a stark, unyielding connection between religious devotion and political extremism. Religious Jews and Muslims stoke incitement and violence. But could they also resolve the conflict?

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• Why anti-Russia boycotts should revive the Palestinian BDS movement

  
  May 10, 2022 15:31

  Source: Jews for Justice for Palestinians

  https://jfjfp.com/why-anti-russia-boycotts-should-revive-the-palestinian-bds-movement/

   

  Nada Elia writes in Middle East Eye 

  Published May 9, 2022

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• ‘Our Nakba and Their Independence’: On the Problem with the Zionists’ Version of Two Narratives

  
  May 10, 2022 15:40

  Source: Palestine Chronicle

  https://www.palestinechronicle.com/our-nakba-and-their-independence-on-the-problem-with-the-zionists-version-of-two-narratives/

   

  By Benay Blend

  Published May 5, 2022

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• The New Nuclear Reality

  
  April 25, 2022 11:17

  Source: The New Yorker

  https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-new-nuclear-reality?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=tny&utm_mailing=TNY_Daily_042322&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_medium=email&utm_term=tny_daily_digest&bxid=624b011ae3cce3fea909bb38&cndid

   

  By Robin Wright

  Published April 23, 2022

   

  Russia’s war in Ukraine has reawakened fears about the bomb—and endangered the principle of deterrence.

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• U.S. Secretary of State Blinken to Visit Kyiv to Meet With Ukrainian President Zelenskyy

  
  April 25, 2022 10:44

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/europe/blinken-to-visit-kyiv-to-meet-with-ukrainian-president-zelenskyy-1.10758289?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=daily-brief&utm_content=ef8276d2eb

   

  By Reuters

  Published April 23, 2022

   

  Zelenskyy will request that the U.S. become a security guarantor for Ukraine from future threats

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