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Soft Power After Ukraine
Source: Project Syndicate
Published May 3, 2022
While hard military power will decide the outcome of Russia's war in Ukraine, the power of values, persuasion, and attraction are hardly irrelevant. Though soft power tends to operate more subtly and over a longer time horizon, it has nonetheless emerged as a key feature of Ukraine's defense.
Read More‘Our Nakba and Their Independence’: On the Problem with the Zionists’ Version of Two Narratives
Source: Palestine Chronicle
By Benay Blend
Published May 5, 2022
Read MoreWhy anti-Russia boycotts should revive the Palestinian BDS movement
Source: Jews for Justice for Palestinians
https://jfjfp.com/why-anti-russia-boycotts-should-revive-the-palestinian-bds-movement/
Nada Elia writes in Middle East Eye
Published May 9, 2022
Read MoreOpinion | What's God Got to Do With It? How Religion Fuels the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Source: Haaretz
Published May 9, 2022
Surveys of Israelis and Palestinians are definitive: There's a stark, unyielding connection between religious devotion and political extremism. Religious Jews and Muslims stoke incitement and violence. But could they also resolve the conflict?
Read MoreThe New Nuclear Reality
Source: The New Yorker
By Robin Wright
Published April 23, 2022
Russia’s war in Ukraine has reawakened fears about the bomb—and endangered the principle of deterrence.
Read MoreFarewell | A Eulogy for Ilan Gilon, a Fighter for Social Justice
Source: Haaretz
By Zehava Galon
Published May 1, 2022
Ilan Gilon’s politics were defined by compassion and humanity. He dealt with pain on a daily basis, but instead of withdrawing inward, he turned his personal challenge into a public fight for people with disabilities
Read MoreOpinion | If the PA Is Responsible for Palestinian Violence, Who 'Ratifies' Jewish Terrorism?
Source: Haaretz
By Zvi Bar'el
Published April 12, 2022
Read MorePalestine’s Widening Geography of Resistance: Why Israel Cannot Defeat the Palestinians
Source: Ramzy Baroud, Politics for the People
By Ramzy Baroud
Published April 13, 2022
Read MoreBeware of the resurgent Russophobia
Source: Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/4/1/beware-of-the-resurgent-russophobia
Published April 1, 2022
So what if Putin likes Dostoyevsky?
Read MoreFears Are Mounting That Ukraine War Will Spill Across Borders
Source: The New York Times
By David E. Sanger and Steven Erlanger
Published April 27, 2022
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