Common Grounds

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• President Zelenskyy, one Israel is enough

  
  April 19, 2022 13:54

  Source: Al Jazeera

  https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/4/19/president-zelenskyy-one-israel-is-enough

   

  By Andrew Mitrovica

  Published April 19, 2022

   

  The Ukrainian leader’s recent declaration that his country will become a ‘big Israel with its own face’ after the war invites a blunt, unambiguous reproach.

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• Pope calls for peace in Ukraine on ‘Easter of war,’ warns of nuclear threat

  
  April 18, 2022 09:34

  Source: The Washington Post

  https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/04/17/pope-francis-easter-message-ukraine/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most&carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F369b4ca%2F625c366f64253a7f343801f7%2F597682b5ae7e8a68 16d78e2c%2F27%2F72%2F625c366f64253a7f343801f7

   

  By Annabelle Timsit

  Published April 17, 2022

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• Ukraine and Palestine: How the West embraces one resistance but demonises another

  
  April 19, 2022 14:11

  Source: Middle East Eye

  https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israel-palestine-west-embraces-one-resistance-demonises-another-how

   

  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?

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• Opinion | We Are Israeli Citizens, but Don’t Ask Us to Stop Being Palestinians

  
  April 19, 2022 14:36

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-we-are-israeli-citizens-but-don-t-ask-us-to-stop-being-palestinians-1.10743633

   

  By Ayman Odeh

  Published April 14, 2022

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• War in a World that Stands for Nothing

  
  April 21, 2022 20:07

  Source: Project Syndicate

  https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/russia-ukraine-war-highlights-truths-about-global-capitalism-by-slavoj-zizek-2022-04?utm_source=Project%20Syndicate%20Newsletter&utm_campaign=9c6fbe2bbc-covid_newsletter_04_20_2022&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_73bad5b7d8-9c6fbe2bbc-93791313&mc_cid=9c6fbe2bbc&mc_eid=284f1f0e24

   

  Bu SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK

  Published April 18, 2022

   

  Vladimir Putin’s war engine is being sustained not just by European payments for Russian oil and gas but also by a complicit class of “lumpen-bourgeoisie” motivated solely by the trappings of material wealth. Ukrainians, and everyone else, are learning the hard way how global capitalism trumps democracy and human rights.

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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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• 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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• Why anti-Russia boycotts should revive the Palestinian BDS movement

  
  May 10, 2022 15:31

  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

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• Opinion | What's God Got to Do With It? How Religion Fuels the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

  
  May 10, 2022 14:42

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.HIGHLIGHT-what-s-god-got-to-do-with-it-how-religion-fuels-the-israel-palestinian-conflict-1.10787533

   

  By Dahlia Scheindlin

  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?

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• ‘Our Nakba and Their Independence’: On the Problem with the Zionists’ Version of Two Narratives

  
  May 10, 2022 15:40

  Source: Palestine Chronicle

  https://www.palestinechronicle.com/our-nakba-and-their-independence-on-the-problem-with-the-zionists-version-of-two-narratives/

   

  By Benay Blend

  Published May 5, 2022

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