Common Grounds

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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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• Our Friday Edition | What is the Side of the Story that is Not Yet Decisive?

  
  April 21, 2022 21:37

  Source: The Times of Israel

  https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/what-is-the-side-of-the-story-that-is-not-yet-decisive/

   

  By Abraham A. van Kempen

   

  Who's Wise?

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• Why John Mearsheimer Blames the U.S. for the Crisis in Ukraine

  
  April 05, 2022 12:13

  Source: New Yorker

  https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/why-john-mearsheimer-blames-the-us-for-the-crisis-in-ukraine

   

  By Isaac Chotiner

  Published March 1, 2022

   

  For years, the political scientist has claimed that Putin’s aggression toward Ukraine is caused by Western intervention. Have recent events changed his mind?

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• Nina L. Khrushcheva - Says More…

  
  April 21, 2022 20:28

  Source: Project Syndicate

  https://www.project-syndicate.org/say-more/an-interview-with-nina-l-khrushcheva-2022-03

   

  Published March 29, 2022

   

  This week in Say More, PS talks with Nina L. Khrushcheva, Professor of International Affairs at The New School.

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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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• Palestinian victims of the Ukraine war

  
  April 14, 2022 08:57

  Source: Press TV

  https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2022/04/08/679969/Palestine-Ukraine-Zelensky-Israel-weapons-containment--racism-

   

  By Denijal Jegic

  Published April 8, 2022

   

  Projecting the future of Ukraine after the current war with Russia, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky rejected "liberal, European" concepts and instead identified the idea of a "big Israel" as his vision for Ukraine.

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• Israel and the Triangular Crisis of Ukraine, Iran, and Palestine

  
  April 05, 2022 15:07

  Source: The New Yorker

  https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/israel-and-the-triangular-crisis-of-ukraine-iran-and-palestine

   

  By Bernard Avishai

  Published April 1, 2022

   

  A summit in Israel, at a decisive moment, highlighted the tensions that have rendered the nation an outlier among democratic states.

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• Is Europe Really More Civilized? Ukraine Conflict a Platform for Racism and Rewriting History

  
  April 05, 2022 14:29

  Source: Palestine Chronicle

  https://www.palestinechronicle.com/is-europe-really-more-civilized-ukraine-conflict-a-platform-for-racism-and-rewriting-history/

   

  By Ramzy Baroud

  Published April 4, 2022

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• Opinion | Ukraine War: Why Most Israelis Blame Putin, but Most Palestinians Don't

  
  April 05, 2022 12:39

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/.premium.HIGHLIGHT-ukraine-war-why-israelis-blame-putin-but-palestinians-don-t-1.10716311?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=breaking-news&utm_content=4a65b68ad3&lts=1649084371925

   

  By Dahlia Scheindlin

  Published April 3, 2022

   

  In recent surveys, Israelis and Palestinians hold sweepingly different attitudes towards Russia’s war on Ukraine, exposing how far their own conflict filters how they see the world, all the way to Kyiv and Moscow

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• Zelensky, entering new stage of war, faces political test

  
  April 07, 2022 11:25

  Source: The Washington Post

  https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2022/04/03/zelenky-putin-peace-deal-ukraine-politics/

   

  By Paul Sonne, Shane Harris, Michael Birnbaum and Souad Mekhennet

   

  As the war grinds on and peace talks continue, the Ukrainian president confronts new challenges

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