Common Grounds

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• This Geopolitical War is a ‘Geopolitical Crime’

  
  April 12, 2022 13:57

  Source: Palestine Chronicle

  https://www.palestinechronicle.com/this-geopolitical-war-is-a-geopolitical-crime/

   

  By Richard Falk

  Published April 10, 2022

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• Scott Schaeffer-Duffy: No excuse for Russian invasion of Ukraine, but Americans must remember...

  
  April 12, 2022 14:05

  Source: Telegram&Gazette

  https://www.telegram.com/story/opinion/2022/04/08/schaeffer-duffy-no-excuse-russian-invasion-ukraine-but-americans-must-remember/7270229001/

   

  By Scott Schaeffer-Duffy

  Published April 8, 2022

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• Opinion | We Are Israeli Citizens, but Don’t Ask Us to Stop Being Palestinians

  
  April 19, 2022 14:36

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-we-are-israeli-citizens-but-don-t-ask-us-to-stop-being-palestinians-1.10743633

   

  By Ayman Odeh

  Published April 14, 2022

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• War in a World that Stands for Nothing

  
  April 21, 2022 20:07

  Source: Project Syndicate

  https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/russia-ukraine-war-highlights-truths-about-global-capitalism-by-slavoj-zizek-2022-04?utm_source=Project%20Syndicate%20Newsletter&utm_campaign=9c6fbe2bbc-covid_newsletter_04_20_2022&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_73bad5b7d8-9c6fbe2bbc-93791313&mc_cid=9c6fbe2bbc&mc_eid=284f1f0e24

   

  Bu SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK

  Published April 18, 2022

   

  Vladimir Putin’s war engine is being sustained not just by European payments for Russian oil and gas but also by a complicit class of “lumpen-bourgeoisie” motivated solely by the trappings of material wealth. Ukrainians, and everyone else, are learning the hard way how global capitalism trumps democracy and human rights.

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• Nina L. Khrushcheva - Says More…

  
  April 21, 2022 20:28

  Source: Project Syndicate

  https://www.project-syndicate.org/say-more/an-interview-with-nina-l-khrushcheva-2022-03

   

  Published March 29, 2022

   

  This week in Say More, PS talks with Nina L. Khrushcheva, Professor of International Affairs at The New School.

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• Our Friday Edition | What is the Side of the Story that is Not Yet Decisive?

  
  April 21, 2022 21:37

  Source: The Times of Israel

  https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/what-is-the-side-of-the-story-that-is-not-yet-decisive/

   

  By Abraham A. van Kempen

   

  Who's Wise?

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• Ukraine and Palestine: How the West embraces one resistance but demonises another

  
  April 19, 2022 14:11

  Source: Middle East Eye

  https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israel-palestine-west-embraces-one-resistance-demonises-another-how

   

  By David Hearst

  Published April 18, 2022

   

  Ukraine's defiance in the face of Putin’s aggression has been dubbed heroic, so why doesn't the Palestinian resistance get the same treatment?

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• President Zelenskyy, one Israel is enough

  
  April 19, 2022 13:54

  Source: Al Jazeera

  https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/4/19/president-zelenskyy-one-israel-is-enough

   

  By Andrew Mitrovica

  Published April 19, 2022

   

  The Ukrainian leader’s recent declaration that his country will become a ‘big Israel with its own face’ after the war invites a blunt, unambiguous reproach.

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• Selective Solidarity with War Victims: Ukrainian and Palestinian Refugees

  
  April 12, 2022 15:05

  Source: Politics Today

  https://politicstoday.org/solidarity-with-war-victims-ukraine-palestine-refugees/

   

  By Yousef M. Aljamal

  Published March 18, 2022

   

  Hundreds of Israelis protested the Russian invasion of Ukraine, with some of them burning their Russian passports in protest. Here lie a number of ironies.

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• Palestinian victims of the Ukraine war

  
  April 14, 2022 08:57

  Source: Press TV

  https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2022/04/08/679969/Palestine-Ukraine-Zelensky-Israel-weapons-containment--racism-

   

  By Denijal Jegic

  Published April 8, 2022

   

  Projecting the future of Ukraine after the current war with Russia, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky rejected "liberal, European" concepts and instead identified the idea of a "big Israel" as his vision for Ukraine.

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