Common Grounds

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Opinion | It’s Always the Time to Talk About the Occupation

  
  January 31, 2023 15:13

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2023-01-30/ty-article-opinion/.premium/its-always-the-time-to-talk-about-the-occupation/00000185-ff07-d9f5-a18d-ffcf3aaa0000

   

  By Hanin Majadli

  Published January 30, 2023

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• When Zionism splits: Israel and the warning from colonial history

  
  January 31, 2023 15:04

  Source: Jews for Justice for Palestinians

  https://jfjfp.com/when-zionism-splits-israel-and-the-warning-from-colonial-history/

   

  David Hearst  writes in Middle East Eye 

  Published January 26, 2023

   

  The divide between the shock troops of the Zionist project to create a Jewish state and the Zionist mainstream has been swept under the carpet so many times. Today it's breaking out into the open

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• The US is right to show concern for the situation in Palestine-Israel but who's listening?

  
  February 07, 2023 14:17

  Source: The National

  https://www.thenationalnews.com/opinion/comment/2023/02/01/the-us-is-right-to-show-concern-for-the-situation-in-palestine-israel-but-whos-listening/

   

  By Hussein Ibish

  Published February 1, 2023

   

  Many Jewish and other Americans are increasingly unable to ignore the reality of growing schisms

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• An open letter to Israel’s friends in North America

  
  February 07, 2023 14:36

  Source: The Times of Israel

  https://www.timesofisrael.com/an-open-letter-to-israels-friends-in-north-america/?utm_source=The+Blogs+Weekly+Highlights&utm_campaign=blogs-weekly-highlights-2023-02-02&utm_medium=email

   

  By MATTI FRIEDMAN, YOSSI KLEIN HALEVI and DANIEL GORDIS

  Published February 2, 2023

   

  Diaspora Jews have both the right and the responsibility to speak out against a government that is undermining our society’s cohesion and its democratic ethos

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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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• 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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