Common Grounds

Soft Power After Ukraine

May 08, 2022 22:15
Source: Project Syndicate

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/soft-power-after-russia-war-in-ukraine-by-joseph-s-nye-2022-05

By JOSEPH S. NYE, JR.

Published May 3, 2022

While hard military power will decide the outcome of Russia's war in Ukraine, the power of values, persuasion, and attraction are hardly irrelevant. Though soft power tends to operate more subtly and over a longer time horizon, it has nonetheless emerged as a key feature of Ukraine's defense.
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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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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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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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Abu Akleh’s brother slams police ‘brutal force’ at funeral, expresses hope for peace

May 16, 2022 11:33
Source: The Times of Israel

https://www.timesofisrael.com/abu-aklehs-brother-slams-police-brutal-force-at-funeral-expresses-hope-for-peace/?utm_source=The+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=daily-edition-2022-05-15&utm_medium=email

By AARON BOXERMAN

Published May 15, 2022

Anton Abu Akleh, brother of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen who was killed in Jenin last week, calls Israeli police account of violence at her funeral ‘illogical and untrue’
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Russia's Sergei Lavrov Compares Ukraine to Palestine

May 17, 2022 14:32
Source: Newsweek

https://www.newsweek.com/russia-sergei-lavrov-compares-ukraine-palestine-putin-israel-1706810

By JACK DUTTON

Published May 16, 2022

Watch the VIDEO HERE
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Palestine, Syria, Ukraine: the life of Marsel, a child of wars

May 17, 2022 13:49
Source: United Nations

https://unric.org/en/palestine-syria-ukraine-the-life-of-marsel-a-child-of-wars/

Published May 16, 2022
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Rewriting UNRWA: The US-Israeli Plan to Cancel out the Palestinian Right of Return

May 17, 2022 13:54
Source: Ramzy Baroud - Politics for the People

http://www.ramzybaroud.net/rewriting-unrwa-the-us-israeli-plan-to-cancel-out-the-palestinian-right-of-return/

By Ramzy Baroud

Published May 4, 2022
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A Ukrainian City Under a Violent New Regime

May 18, 2022 17:48
Source: The Newyorker

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/05/23/a-ukrainian-city-under-a-violent-new-regime

By Joshua Yaffa
Published May 16, 2022

How the Russian occupation transformed life in Melitopol.
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