Common Grounds
Ukraine and Palestine: How the West embraces one resistance but demonises another
Source: Middle East Eye
By David Hearst
Published April 18, 2022
Ukraine's defiance in the face of Putin’s aggression has been dubbed heroic, so why doesn't the Palestinian resistance get the same treatment?
Read MoreThis Geopolitical War is a ‘Geopolitical Crime’
Source: Palestine Chronicle
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/this-geopolitical-war-is-a-geopolitical-crime/
By Richard Falk
Published April 10, 2022
Read MoreSelective Solidarity with War Victims: Ukrainian and Palestinian Refugees
Source: Politics Today
https://politicstoday.org/solidarity-with-war-victims-ukraine-palestine-refugees/
Published March 18, 2022
Hundreds of Israelis protested the Russian invasion of Ukraine, with some of them burning their Russian passports in protest. Here lie a number of ironies.
Read MoreEditorial | Did Somebody Say ‘Oil,’ ‘Petro-Dictator,’ ‘America’s Addiction to Oil?’
By Abraham A. van Kempen
Read MoreRussia Is Finished as a Major Energy Power
Source: Project Syndicate
By SIMON JOHNSON, OLEG USTENKO
Published March 31, 2022
In the wake of Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine, no European in their right mind wants Russia to have the free cash flow that its hydrocarbon exports currently provide. And the European Union, the United States, and their allies are already on track to remove this major source of the Kremlin's geopolitical leverage.
Read MoreWhy John Mearsheimer Blames the U.S. for the Crisis in Ukraine
Source: New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/why-john-mearsheimer-blames-the-us-for-the-crisis-in-ukraine
Published March 1, 2022
For years, the political scientist has claimed that Putin’s aggression toward Ukraine is caused by Western intervention. Have recent events changed his mind?
Read MoreIs Europe Really More Civilized? Ukraine Conflict a Platform for Racism and Rewriting History
Source: Palestine Chronicle
By Ramzy Baroud
Published April 4, 2022
Read MoreOpinion | Ukraine War: Why Most Israelis Blame Putin, but Most Palestinians Don't
Source: Haaretz
Published April 3, 2022
In recent surveys, Israelis and Palestinians hold sweepingly different attitudes towards Russia’s war on Ukraine, exposing how far their own conflict filters how they see the world, all the way to Kyiv and Moscow
Read MoreZelensky, entering new stage of war, faces political test
Source: The Washington Post
By Paul Sonne, Shane Harris, Michael Birnbaum and Souad Mekhennet
As the war grinds on and peace talks continue, the Ukrainian president confronts new challenges
Read MoreIsrael and the Triangular Crisis of Ukraine, Iran, and Palestine
Source: The New Yorker
Published April 1, 2022
A summit in Israel, at a decisive moment, highlighted the tensions that have rendered the nation an outlier among democratic states.
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