Common Grounds
Opinion // Europe Must Not Buy What Israel Is Selling to Combat Terror
Source: Haaretz
By Jeff Halper
Published Aug 20, 2017
Israel has managed to turn 50 years of Palestinian resistance to occupation into a cottage industry, and is now selling the concept of a police state to the world
Read MoreMidEast wars – great British business opportunity
Source: JEWS FOR JUSTICE FOR PALESTINIANS
By Jamie Doward, The Observer
August 12/13, 2017Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990 used by UK to boost weapon sales
Thatcher government saw war on Saddam as an ‘unparalleled opportunity’ to sell arms, declassified secret memos reveal
Read MoreM. le President – what of the anti-Zionist Jews?
Source: JEWS FOR JUSTICE FOR PALESTINIANS
By Shlomo Sand, CounterPunch
August 11, 2017Why I Cannot be a Zionist: an Open Letter to Emmanuel Macron
Read MoreCan national liberation still be the Palestinian goal?
Source: JEWS FOR JUSTICE FOR PALESTINIANS
http://jfjfp.com/?p=94239
By Hussein Agha and Ahmad Samih Khalidi, New Yorker
August 06, 2017The End of This Road: The Decline of the Palestinian National Movement
Read MorePalestinians have spent decades battling Israel. Now they’re battling each other.
Source: Vox
Updated by Shira Rubin
Aug 22, 2017
A Palestinian civil war is making independence seem further away than ever before.
Read MoreEducation and ideology: The case of Israel and Zionism
Source: Redress Information & Analysis
http://www.redressonline.com/2017/08/education-and-ideology-the-case-of-israel-and-zionism/
22nd August 2017
Ideologically managed education
Education is one of those words that has a positive connotation for almost everyone – usually generating a warm and fuzzy feeling that suggests a richer and brighter future. But that is just an idealisation of the concept. As I have stated before, as far as the state is concerned, education has two major purposes: to fulfil the vocational needs of the economy and the political need for ideologically loyal citizens. It is in the pursuit of this last goal that education can reveal a darker side.
Read MoreWhat do Palestinians think of the Green Line?
Source: +972 Magazine
https://972mag.com/what-do-palestinians-think-of-the-green-line/129380/
By Social TV
Published August 21, 2017In the last episode, Rami Younis explored how the Green Line has been effectively erased from the Israeli education system and what that means for the next generation of Israelis. Now he sets out to hear what the Green Lines means for Palestinians.
Read MoreThe story of Al Araqeeb is the story of Palestine
Source: Gulf News
http://gulfnews.com/opinion/thinkers/the-story-of-al-araqeeb-is-the-story-of-palestine-1.2078389
By Ramzy Baroud
Published August 22, 2017There is a specific war being waged by Israel against Palestinians, who, despite their harsh living conditions, remain resolute
Read MoreBirds of a feather: White supremacy and Zionism
Source: Middle East Eye
http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/birds-feather-1463289527
By Nada Elia
Published 24 August 2017
White supremacy and Zionism are two of a kind, with both modelled on ethnic exclusion. Therefore, if one opposes exclusion, and the desire for a racially or religiously 'pure' nation, one must oppose Zionism
Read MoreOpinion // Oh Merciful God, Show Some to Victims
Source: Haaretz
http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.808573
By Gideon Levy
Aug 24, 2017
In the eyes of the state, not just those of the settlers, the just majority in the territories doesn’t exist – only the dispossessing minority
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