Common Grounds

MidEast wars – great British business opportunity

August 22, 2017 14:23
Source: JEWS FOR JUSTICE FOR PALESTINIANS

http://jfjfp.com/?p=94333

By Jamie Doward, The Observer
August 12/13, 2017

Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990 used by UK to boost weapon sales

Thatcher government saw war on Saddam as an ‘unparalleled opportunity’ to sell arms, declassified secret memos reveal
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M. le President – what of the anti-Zionist Jews?

August 22, 2017 14:58
Source: JEWS FOR JUSTICE FOR PALESTINIANS

http://jfjfp.com/?p=94285

By Shlomo Sand, CounterPunch
August 11, 2017

Why I Cannot be a Zionist: an Open Letter to Emmanuel Macron
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Can national liberation still be the Palestinian goal?

August 22, 2017 15:41
Source: JEWS FOR JUSTICE FOR PALESTINIANS

http://jfjfp.com/?p=94239

By Hussein Agha and Ahmad Samih Khalidi, New Yorker
August 06, 2017

The End of This Road: The Decline of the Palestinian National Movement
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Palestinians have spent decades battling Israel. Now they’re battling each other.

August 23, 2017 12:18
Source: Vox

https://www.vox.com/world/2017/8/22/16114696/palestinian-hamas-israel-independence-netanyahu-abbas-trump

Updated by Shira Rubin

Aug 22, 2017

A Palestinian civil war is making independence seem further away than ever before.
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Education and ideology: The case of Israel and Zionism

August 23, 2017 12:45
Source: Redress Information & Analysis

http://www.redressonline.com/2017/08/education-and-ideology-the-case-of-israel-and-zionism/

By Lawrence Davidson

22nd August 2017

Ideologically managed education

Education is one of those words that has a positive connotation for almost everyone – usually generating a warm and fuzzy feeling that suggests a richer and brighter future. But that is just an idealisation of the concept. As I have stated before, as far as the state is concerned, education has two major purposes: to fulfil the vocational needs of the economy and the political need for ideologically loyal citizens. It is in the pursuit of this last goal that education can reveal a darker side.
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What do Palestinians think of the Green Line?

August 24, 2017 12:01
Source: +972 Magazine

https://972mag.com/what-do-palestinians-think-of-the-green-line/129380/

By Social TV
Published August 21, 2017

In the last episode, Rami Younis explored how the Green Line has been effectively erased from the Israeli education system and what that means for the next generation of Israelis. Now he sets out to hear what the Green Lines means for Palestinians.
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The story of Al Araqeeb is the story of Palestine

August 28, 2017 20:20
Source: Gulf News

http://gulfnews.com/opinion/thinkers/the-story-of-al-araqeeb-is-the-story-of-palestine-1.2078389

By Ramzy Baroud
Published August 22, 2017

There is a specific war being waged by Israel against Palestinians, who, despite their harsh living conditions, remain resolute
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Birds of a feather: White supremacy and Zionism

August 29, 2017 15:17
Source: Middle East Eye

http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/birds-feather-1463289527

By Nada Elia

Published 24 August 2017

White supremacy and Zionism are two of a kind, with both modelled on ethnic exclusion. Therefore, if one opposes exclusion, and the desire for a racially or religiously 'pure' nation, one must oppose Zionism
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Opinion // Oh Merciful God, Show Some to Victims

August 29, 2017 15:17
Source: Haaretz

http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.808573

By Gideon Levy

Aug 24, 2017

In the eyes of the state, not just those of the settlers, the just majority in the territories doesn’t exist – only the dispossessing minority
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Christian imperialists saw Palestinians as worthless infidels

August 30, 2017 11:50
Source: JEWS FOR JUSTICE FOR PALESTINIANS

http://jfjfp.com/?p=94643

By Avi Shlaim, Middle-East Eye
August 28, 2017

The Balfour Declaration: A study in British duplicity

It’s been nearly 100 years since the document changed the course of history, yet Britain still fails to acknowledge Israel’s denial of the Palestinian right to national self-determination – and its own complicity
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