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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• Innocence and Evil on the West Bank

  
  April 18, 2023 14:56

  Source: Palestine Chronicle

  https://www.palestinechronicle.com/innocence-and-evil-on-the-west-bank/

   

  By Jeremy Salt

  Published April 15, 2023

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• Israel, leave Ramadan alone

  
  April 18, 2023 14:34

  Source: +972 Magazine

  https://www.972mag.com/israel-ramadan-palestinians-al-aqsa/

   

  By Samah Salaime
  Published April 14, 2023

   

  Instead of devoting ourselves to spiritual growth or being able to enjoy time with family, we Palestinians are made to fear this holy month.

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• Israel’s One-State Reality

  
  April 18, 2023 13:57

  Source: Jewish Voice for Labour

  https://www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/israels-one-state-reality/

   

  By Michael Barnett, Nathan Brown, Marc Lynch, and Shibley Telhami, Foreign Affairs

  Published April 15, 2023

   

  It’s Time to Give Up on the Two-State Solution

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• TRADING WITH THE ENEMY

  
  April 13, 2023 11:59

  Source: SEYMOUR HERSH

  https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/trading-with-the-enemy?utm_source=substack&publication_id=1377040&post_id=114123549&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=false

   

  By Seymour Hersh

  Published April 12, 2023

   

  Amid rampant corruption in Kiev and as US troops gather at the Ukrainian border, does the Biden administration have an endgame to the conflict?

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• The Deir Yassin massacre: Why it still matters 75 years later

  
  April 11, 2023 15:17

  Source: Al Jazeera

  https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/4/9/the-deir-yassin-massacre-why-it-still-matters-75-years-later?sf176644700=1

   

  By Al Jazeera staff

  Published April 9, 2023

   

  The brutality of the Deir Yassin prompted thousands of Palestinians to flee, just weeks before Israel was created.

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• Al-Aqsa raid: How BBC coverage is enabling Israeli violence

  
  April 11, 2023 14:49

  Source: Middle East Eye

  https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/aqsa-mosque-raid-israel-bbc-enabling-violence-how

   

  By Jonathan Cook

  Published April 6, 2023

   

  Once again, the British state broadcaster is using a bogus ‘neutrality’ to trick its audience into siding with Israeli state oppression

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• Democracy or apartheid: You can’t have both

  
  April 11, 2023 14:18

  Source: Peoples Dispatch

  https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/04/09/democracy-or-apartheid-you-cant-have-both/

   

  By Nour

  Published April 09, 2023

   

  The idea that Israeli “democracy” can be protected by blocking the judicial overhaul is a myth. Any plans Israel had for democracy were destroyed when they began the Nakba in 1948.

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• THE NORD STREAM GHOST SHIP

  
  April 06, 2023 12:35

  Source: Seymour Hersh

  https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/the-nord-stream-ghost-ship

   

  By Seymour Hersh

  Published April 5, 2023

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• Israel’s rightwing government represents the Judaization of Zionism

  
  April 04, 2023 15:22

  Source: Mondoweiss

  https://mondoweiss.net/2023/03/israels-rightwing-government-represents-the-judaization-of-zionism/

   

  By HAIM BRESHEETH-ŽABNER

  Published March 31, 2023

   

  Early Zionism sought to reform the "Ghetto Jew" into the secular Zionist militant. But now the new Israeli government not only wants to push society to the right, but to dismantle its secularism as well.

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