Common Grounds

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• Our Wednesday News Analysis | Nakba denial is at the heart of pro-Israel lobbying

  
  May 24, 2023 13:39 Read More

• Nakba denial is at the heart of pro-Israel lobbying

  
  May 23, 2023 13:57

  Source: Mondoweiss

  https://mondoweiss.net/2023/05/nakba-denial-is-at-the-heart-of-pro-israel-lobbying/?utm_content=buffer162d6&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=buffer

   

  By MITCHELL PLITNICK

  Published May 21, 2023

   

  Just as the Nakba is at the heart of Palestinian national existence, the denial of the Nakba is at the heart of the racist ideology that has so successfully warped U.S. foreign policy.

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• "A land without a people for a people without a land"

  
  May 23, 2023 13:40

  Source: Tehran Times

  https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/484736/A-land-without-a-people-for-a-people-without-a-land

   

  By Ali Karbalaei

  Published May 15, 2023

   

  TEHRAN- The phrase “a land without a people for a people without a land” has historical context but has become a common slogan for Zionists to try and justify their illegal settler presence on Palestinian land.

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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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• Russia-Ukraine war 2.0: First tanks, then F16s...where does this end?

  
  February 17, 2023 11:04

  Source: Middle East Eye

  https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/russia-ukraine-war-first-tanks-then-f16s-where-end

   

  By Jonathan Cook

  Published February 7, 2023

   

  Increasingly, the war looks more like a feature than a bug of Washington's post-Cold War planning

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• The US’s empty commitment to a two-state solution

  
  February 14, 2023 14:19

  Source: Jews for Justice for Palestinians

  https://jfjfp.com/the-uss-empty-commitment-to-a-two-state-solution/

   

  Jonathan Guyer writes in Vox on February 6, 2023

   

  An outdated policy stands in the way of efforts to defuse violence in Israel and Palestine.

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• ‘New Israel and Zionism Society’ of Exeter Wages War on Committed Scholarship

  
  February 14, 2023 13:22

  Source: Palestine Chronicle

  https://www.palestinechronicle.com/new-israel-and-zionism-society-of-exeter-wages-war-on-committed-scholarship/

   

  By Ilan Pappe

  Published February 13, 2023

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• In Syria, the West’s humanitarian claims crumble to dust

  
  February 14, 2023 13:03

  Source: Middle East Eye

  https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/turkey-syria-earthquake-west-humanitarian-claims-crumble-dust

   

  By Jonathan Cook

  Published February 13, 2023

   

  The US said it wanted to free Syrians from a tyrant. Then it was willing to let them die of cold and hunger. The truth: for the West, Syria is only about power

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• America is 'deeply troubled', so what?

  
  February 21, 2023 14:28

  Source: Middle East Monitor

  https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20230220-america-is-deeply-troubled-so-what/

   

  By Dr Mohammad Makram Balawi

  Published February 20, 2023

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