Common Grounds
It Has Always Been a ‘Religious War’: On Ben Gvir and the Adaptability of Zionism
Source: Palestine Chronicle
By Ramzy Baroud
Published January 18, 2023
Read MoreWhy does Israeli democracy matter, but Palestinian democracy doesn't?
Source: Middle East Monitor
January 16, 2023
Read MoreIs this Western war on Russia simply stupidity?
Source: Al Mayadeen
https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/opinion/is-this-western-war-on-russia-simply-stupidity
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.
Read MoreThe myth of the ‘cycle of violence’
Source: +972 Magazine
https://www.972mag.com/cycle-violence-jenin-jerusalem/
By Amjad Iraqi
Published January 31, 2023Palestinians spotlight Israeli brutality to demand an end to their oppression;
Israelis spotlight Palestinian violence to justify that oppression.
Read MoreOpinion | It’s Always the Time to Talk About the Occupation
Source: Haaretz
Published January 30, 2023
Read MoreWhen Zionism splits: Israel and the warning from colonial history
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
Read MoreThe US is right to show concern for the situation in Palestine-Israel but who's listening?
Source: The National
Published February 1, 2023
Many Jewish and other Americans are increasingly unable to ignore the reality of growing schisms
Read MoreAn open letter to Israel’s friends in North America
Source: The Times of Israel
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
Read MoreOpinion | Israel’s Fraudulent Notion of ‘Jewish Democracy’ Has Been Exposed. What’s Next?
Source: Haaretz
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
Read MoreHow America Took Out The Nord Stream Pipeline
Source: Seymour Hersh
https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-took-out-the-nord-stream
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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