Common Grounds

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• Opinion | If the PA Is Responsible for Palestinian Violence, Who 'Ratifies' Jewish Terrorism?

  
  April 26, 2022 15:47

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-if-the-pa-is-responsible-for-palestinian-violence-who-ratifies-jewish-terrorism-1.10737999

   

  By Zvi Bar'el

  Published April 12, 2022

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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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• 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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• Opinion | We Are Israeli Citizens, but Don’t Ask Us to Stop Being Palestinians

  
  April 19, 2022 14:36

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-we-are-israeli-citizens-but-don-t-ask-us-to-stop-being-palestinians-1.10743633

   

  By Ayman Odeh

  Published April 14, 2022

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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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• 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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• Palestine’s Widening Geography of Resistance: Why Israel Cannot Defeat the Palestinians

  
  April 26, 2022 15:39

  Source: Ramzy Baroud, Politics for the People

  http://www.ramzybaroud.net/palestines-widening-geography-of-resistance-why-israel-cannot-defeat-the-palestinians/

   

  By Ramzy Baroud

  Published April 13, 2022

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• Beware of the resurgent Russophobia

  
  April 26, 2022 15:33

  Source: Al Jazeera

  https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/4/1/beware-of-the-resurgent-russophobia

   

  By Hamid Dabashi

  Published April 1, 2022

   

  So what if Putin likes Dostoyevsky?

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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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• 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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