Common Grounds

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• Vladimir and Volodymyr … Rulers of Peace?

  
  March 17, 2022 23:05

  Source: The Times of Israel

  https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/vladimir-and-volodymyr-rulers-of-peace/

   

  By: Abraham A. van Kempen

  Published March 18, 2022

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• Much of the world is ambivalent about the Ukraine war. Rightly so.

  
  March 18, 2022 12:23

  Source: The Times of Israel

  https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/much-of-the-world-is-ambivalent-about-the-ukraine-war-rightly-so/?utm_source=The+Blogs+Weekly+Highlights&utm_campaign=blogs-weekly-highlights-2022-03-17&utm_medium=email

   

  By Radha Stirling

  Published March 14, 2022

   

  There is a distinct sentiment across Asia, Africa and the Arab world that Europe is throwing itself into a disaster and that the international order itself is crumbling

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• Palestinians Empathize With Ukrainian War Plight, but Not All Oppose Russia

  
  March 18, 2022 12:23

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/palestinians-empathize-with-ukrainian-war-plight-but-not-all-oppose-russia-1.10680490?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=daily-brief&utm_content=6ff55c3276

   

  The Associated Press

  Published March 17, 2022

   

  Dozens of Palestinian-Ukrainian families watch the unfolding war in Ukraine with trepidation, but Zelenskyy's support for Israel and historic ties with Russia leave the population split

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• Ukraine and Russia explore neutrality plan in peace talks

  
  March 18, 2022 12:23

  Source: Financial Times 

  https://www.ft.com/content/7b341e46-d375-4817-be67-802b7fa77ef1

   

  By Max Seddon in Riga, Roman Olearchyk in Kyiv, Arash Massoudi in London and Neri Zilber in Tel Aviv 

  Published March 16, 2022

   

  Fifteen-point draft deal would involve Kyiv renouncing Nato ambitions in return for security guarantees

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• U.S. Secretary of State Blinken to Visit Kyiv to Meet With Ukrainian President Zelenskyy

  
  April 25, 2022 10:44

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/europe/blinken-to-visit-kyiv-to-meet-with-ukrainian-president-zelenskyy-1.10758289?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=daily-brief&utm_content=ef8276d2eb

   

  By Reuters

  Published April 23, 2022

   

  Zelenskyy will request that the U.S. become a security guarantor for Ukraine from future threats

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• The New Nuclear Reality

  
  April 25, 2022 11:17

  Source: The New Yorker

  https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-new-nuclear-reality?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=tny&utm_mailing=TNY_Daily_042322&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_medium=email&utm_term=tny_daily_digest&bxid=624b011ae3cce3fea909bb38&cndid

   

  By Robin Wright

  Published April 23, 2022

   

  Russia’s war in Ukraine has reawakened fears about the bomb—and endangered the principle of deterrence.

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• Palestinians 'are bound to win': Why Israelis are prophesying the end of their state

  
  June 14, 2022 13:01

  Source: Middle East Monitor

  https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20220613-palestinians-are-bound-to-win-why-israelis-are-prophesying-the-end-of-their-state/

   

  By Dr Ramzy Baroud

  Published June 13, 2022

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• Messianic colonialism

  
  June 14, 2022 12:46

  Source: Weekly Worker

  https://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1398/messianic-colonialism/#fnref1

   

  By Moshe Machover

  Published June 9, 2022

   

  Religious ideology and nationalist ideology have a unique interrelationship; after all, even secular Zionists have to justify their ongoing colonial project with reference to a god they do not believe in. However, as Moshé Machover shows, it is the religious Zionists of the far right who are increasingly setting the agenda, not least by staging all manner of highly dangerous provocations

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• FORGET LIBERATING UKRAINE – WE FIRST NEED TO LIBERATE OUR MINDS

  
  June 14, 2022 13:41

  Source: Mintpressnews

  https://www.mintpressnews.com/forget-liberating-ukraine-liberate-our-minds/281063/

   

  By JONATHAN COOK

  Published June 10, 2022

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• Theology in the Shadow of the Holocaust: Revisiting Bonhoeffer and the Jews

  
  June 21, 2022 13:48

  Source: Theology Today

  https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00405736221084735

   

  By Mark Braverman

  Research Fellow at the Beyers Naudé Centre for Public Theology, Faculty of Theology, Stellenbosch University

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