Common Grounds

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• MidEast wars – great British business opportunity

  
  August 22, 2017 14:23

  Source: JEWS FOR JUSTICE FOR PALESTINIANS

  http://jfjfp.com/?p=94333

   

  By Jamie Doward, The Observer
  August 12/13, 2017

   

  Iraqi 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

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• M. le President – what of the anti-Zionist Jews?

  
  August 22, 2017 14:58

  Source: JEWS FOR JUSTICE FOR PALESTINIANS

  http://jfjfp.com/?p=94285

   

  By Shlomo Sand, CounterPunch
  August 11, 2017

   

  Why I Cannot be a Zionist: an Open Letter to Emmanuel Macron

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• Can national liberation still be the Palestinian goal?

  
  August 22, 2017 15:41

  Source: JEWS FOR JUSTICE FOR PALESTINIANS

  http://jfjfp.com/?p=94239

   

  By Hussein Agha and Ahmad Samih Khalidi, New Yorker
  August 06, 2017

   

  The End of This Road: The Decline of the Palestinian National Movement

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• Palestinians have spent decades battling Israel. Now they’re battling each other.

  
  August 23, 2017 12:18

  Source: Vox

  https://www.vox.com/world/2017/8/22/16114696/palestinian-hamas-israel-independence-netanyahu-abbas-trump

   

  Updated by Shira Rubin  

  Aug 22, 2017

   

  A Palestinian civil war is making independence seem further away than ever before.

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• Education and ideology: The case of Israel and Zionism

  
  August 23, 2017 12:45

  Source: Redress Information & Analysis

  http://www.redressonline.com/2017/08/education-and-ideology-the-case-of-israel-and-zionism/

   

  By Lawrence Davidson

  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.

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• What do Palestinians think of the Green Line?

  
  August 24, 2017 12:01

  Source: +972 Magazine

  https://972mag.com/what-do-palestinians-think-of-the-green-line/129380/

   

  By Social TV
  Published August 21, 2017

   

  In 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.

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• The story of Al Araqeeb is the story of Palestine

  
  August 28, 2017 20:20

  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, 2017

   

  There is a specific war being waged by Israel against Palestinians, who, despite their harsh living conditions, remain resolute

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• Birds of a feather: White supremacy and Zionism

  
  August 29, 2017 15:17

  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

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• Opinion // Oh Merciful God, Show Some to Victims

  
  August 29, 2017 15:17

  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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• Christian imperialists saw Palestinians as worthless infidels

  
  August 30, 2017 11:50

  Source: JEWS FOR JUSTICE FOR PALESTINIANS

  http://jfjfp.com/?p=94643

   

  By Avi Shlaim, Middle-East Eye
  August 28, 2017

   

  The Balfour Declaration: A study in British duplicity

   

  It’s been nearly 100 years since the document changed the course of history, yet Britain still fails to acknowledge Israel’s denial of the Palestinian right to national self-determination – and its own complicity

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