Common Grounds

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• Europe’s Fading Unity Over Ukraine

  
  April 28, 2022 15:23

  Source: Carnegie Europe

  https://carnegieeurope.eu/strategiceurope/86948?utm_source=ctw&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=imglink&mkt_tok=

   

  By JUDY DEMPSEY

  Published April 21, 2022

   

  At this critical moment, Europeans must show commitment and resolve in their support for Kyiv. Divisions within the EU risk buying Russia time and weakening Ukraine.

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• Rand Paul says U.S. backing Ukraine in NATO played role in Russia’s invasion

  
  April 28, 2022 23:59

  Source: The Washington Post

  https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/27/rand-paul-blinken-ukraine-russia-nato/?/22/41/6269dae3aee9f854899d0b43

   

  By Amy Cheng

  Published April 27, 2022

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• Biden seeks $33 billion war chest to support Ukraine, Zelenskiy wants quick approval

  
  April 28, 2022 23:59

  Surce: Reuters

  https://www.reuters.com/world/biden-looks-congress-oligarchs-more-cash-help-ukraine-2022-04-28/

   

  By Trevor Hunnicutt and Steve Holland

  Published April 28, 2022

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• Read: Vladimir Putin’s victory day speech in full

  
  May 12, 2022 15:43

  Source: The Spectator

  https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/read-vladimir-putin-s-victory-day-speech-in-full

   

  Published May 9, 2022

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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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