Common Grounds

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• Israel Is Destroying the Fantasies of Liberal Zionism

  
  February 21, 2023 14:47

  Source: The Nation

  https://www.thenation.com/article/world/israel-liberal-zionism/?custno=&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%202.20.2023&utm_term=daily

   

  By Saree Makdisi

  Published February 20, 2023

   

  Israeli apartheid is more obvious than ever, and liberal supporters of Zionism are being confronted with a reality that they have tried for so long to deny.

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• Opinion | Israelis Still Expect the Palestinians Will Surrender. They've Never Been More Wrong

  
  February 28, 2023 15:39

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2023-02-27/ty-article-opinion/.highlight/israelis-still-expect-the-palestinians-will-surrender-theyve-never-been-more-wrong/00000186-92f5-d716-a597-f6fdfb490000

   

  By Daoud Kuttab

  Published February 27, 2023

   

  Israelis still falsely hope that their military operations will extinguish Palestinian opposition to living under occupation. Those army raids stoke retaliation, and they're the reason the Lion's Den militant group is so popular - they dare to take on the Israelis

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• The Problem with Israel’s So-Called ‘Crisis of Democracy’

  
  February 28, 2023 15:05

  Source: Counterpunch

  https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/02/24/the-problem-with-israels-so-called-crisis-of-democracy/

   

  By NEVE GORDON

  Published February 24, 2023

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• Israeli governmental map of West Bank erases Palestinian villages and cities

  
  February 21, 2023 14:55

  Source: Mondoweiss

  https://mondoweiss.net/2023/02/israeli-governmental-map-of-west-bank-erases-palestinian-villages-and-cities/

   

  By Philip Weiss

  Published February 17, 2023

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• How America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline

  
  February 09, 2023 16:19

  Source: Seymour Hersh

  https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-took-out-the-nord-stream

   

  By Seymour Hersh

  Published February 8, 2023

   

  The New York Times called it a “mystery,” but the United States executed a covert sea operation that was kept secret—until now

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• Opinion | Israel’s Fraudulent Notion of ‘Jewish Democracy’ Has Been Exposed. What’s Next?

  
  February 07, 2023 15:11

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2023-02-03/ty-article-opinion/.highlight/israels-fraudulent-notion-of-jewish-democracy-has-been-exposed-whats-next/00000186-15d2-d840-a78e-7fdaec3b0000

   

  By Eva Illouz

  Published February 3, 2023

   

  We are in an era of disillusionment, which makes us see reality unvarnished. Zionist nationalism is no longer a unifying goal

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• Is this Western war on Russia simply stupidity?

  
  January 27, 2023 11:40

  Source: Al Mayadeen

  https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/opinion/is-this-western-war-on-russia-simply-stupidity

   

  By Alastair Crooke

  Published January 22, 2023

   

  Not only is there no threat from Russia that is independent of American policy, but it is also the expansion of NATO to ‘meet the threat from Russia’ that creates the very threat that expansion was supposed to meet.

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• Why does Israeli democracy matter, but Palestinian democracy doesn't?

  
  January 24, 2023 14:56

  Source: Middle East Monitor

  https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20230116-why-does-israeli-democracy-matter-but-palestinian-democracy-doesnt/

   

  By Motasem A Dalloul

  January 16, 2023

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• It Has Always Been a ‘Religious War’: On Ben Gvir and the Adaptability of Zionism

  
  January 24, 2023 14:33

  Source: Palestine Chronicle

  https://www.palestinechronicle.com/it-has-always-been-a-religious-war-on-ben-gvir-and-the-adaptability-of-zionism/?utm_content=buffer3b69d&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

   

  By Ramzy Baroud

  Published January 18, 2023

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• The myth of the ‘cycle of violence’

  
  January 31, 2023 14:48

  Source: +972 Magazine

  https://www.972mag.com/cycle-violence-jenin-jerusalem/

   

  By Amjad Iraqi
  Published January 31, 2023

   

  Palestinians spotlight Israeli brutality to demand an end to their oppression;

  Israelis spotlight Palestinian violence to justify that oppression.

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