Common Grounds

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• Quest for Religious War: How Israel is Unifying Arabs and Muslims around Palestine

  
  April 25, 2023 15:27

  Source: Palestine Chronicle

  https://www.palestinechronicle.com/quest-for-religious-war-how-israel-is-unifying-arabs-and-muslims-around-palestine/

   

  By Ramzy Baroud

  Published April 12, 2023

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• Donbass soldier Andrey Korobov-Latyntsev: Here's my chilling warning about where the Russia-Ukraine conflict can lead

  
  April 27, 2023 15:45

  Source: RT

  https://www.rt.com/russia/574531-the-philosophy-of-violence-and-war/

   

  By Andrey Korobov-Latintsev, an officer of the People’s Militia of the Donetsk People’s Republic

  Published April 14, 2023

   

  An academic turned fighter believes those who think the fighting can be contained are misguided

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• Lavrov at UN: Russian foreign minister outlines Western minority's place in a multilateral world

  
  April 27, 2023 15:45

  Source: RT

  https://www.rt.com/russia/575281-lavrov-un-security-council/

   

  By RT staff

  Published April 24, 2023

   

  The Ukraine conflict is about the future of global order, the senior diplomat told the UN Security Council

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• BREAKDOWN: What is known about the status of Ukraine’s much-hyped ‘counteroffensive’ against Russia?

  
  April 28, 2023 11:05

  Source: RT

  https://www.rt.com/russia/575300-what-is-known-about-counteroffensive/

   

  By RT staff

  Published April 25, 2023

   

  The West has pumped Kiev with modern armaments and trained tens of thousands of its troops

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• Palestinians outraged as Ursula von der Leyen invokes Zionist myths to wish Israel on its 75th foundation day

  
  May 02, 2023 15:20

  Source: Peoples Dispatch

  https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/04/28/palestinians-outraged-as-ursula-von-der-leyen-invokes-zionist-myths-to-wish-israel-on-its-75th-foundation-day/

   

  By Peoples Dispatch staff

  Published April 28, 2023

   

  European Commission head Ursula von der Leyen’ statement referred to Israel as the promised land and equated its creation with freedom. The Palestinian Authority and activists across the world termed the statement racist and a defense of colonialism and apartheid

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• Hypocritical Outrage: What’s Wrong with Burning the Flag of an Apartheid State?

  
  May 02, 2023 15:31

  Source: Palestine Chronicle

  https://www.palestinechronicle.com/hypocritical-outrage-whats-wrong-with-burning-flag-of-an-apartheid-state/

   

  By Yves Engler

  Published May 1, 2023

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• Why I won't be celebrating Israel's 75th anniversary (Opinion)

  
  May 02, 2023 15:16

  Source; Houston Chronicle

  https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outlook/article/palestine-zionism-jews-israel-rice-policy-foreign-17917372.php

   

  By Michael S. Kardoush

  Published April 26, 2023

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• Why I'm Saying No to the IDF as a 17-Year-Old

  
  May 09, 2023 14:34

  Source: Common Dreams

  https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/refusing-to-serve-in-the-idf

   

  By Fred Hidvegi

  Published April 27, 2023

   

  As my birthday approaches, I grow more and more anxious because a professional organization of trained terrorists that calls itself an army wants me to be one of them. And if I say no, a prison sentence will be the result.

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• Israel’s fault lines and the loss of a Jewish humanity

  
  May 09, 2023 14:43

  Source: Mondoweiss

  https://mondoweiss.net/2023/05/israels-fault-lines-and-the-loss-of-a-jewish-humanity/

   

  By MARK BRAVERMAN

  Published May 3, 2023 

   

  Thomas Friedman’s condemnation of Netanyahu’s judicial overhaul is based on the false premise that the Israeli judicial system protects democracy. It never has for the millions of Palestinians under colonial rule.

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• Why we Palestinians see ourselves in Khader Adnan

  
  May 09, 2023 14:26

  Source: +972 Magazine

  https://www.972mag.com/palestinians-khader-adnan/

   

  By Amjad Iraqi
  Published May 5, 2023 

   

  Those trying to undermine public anger over the hunger striker's death don't want to talk about the violent carceral regime that he struggled against.

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