Common Grounds

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• The Biden administration has helped kill 85 members of my family. Of course I refused to meet with Antony Blinken.

  
  February 13, 2024 15:07

  Source: Mondoweiss

  https://mondoweiss.net/2024/02/the-biden-administration-has-helped-kill-85-members-of-my-family-of-course-i-refused-to-meet-with-antony-blinken/

   

  By TARIQ HADDAD

  Published February 10, 2024

   

  I refused to provide a photo opportunity to the Biden administration because it has aided and abetted the killing of 85 members of my family. I hope they take the time to read about the nightmare all Palestinians in Gaza are living through.

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• Opinion | Anger Is Rising in Wartime Israel About Which Israelis Must Go and Fight

  
  February 13, 2024 14:37

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-02-09/ty-article/.premium/anger-is-rising-in-wartime-israel-about-which-israelis-must-go-and-fight/0000018d-89a7-d9cc-a5cd-fdbf2eb20000?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=Content&utm_campaign=weekend&utm_content=c466c5b518

   

  By Anshel Pfeffer

  Published February 9, 2024

   

  At a time when many reservists have already spent four months in uniform since the war in Gaza began, Israel's ultra-Orthodox and secular communities are heading for a clash over who must serve in the Israel Defense Forces. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is already trying to muster his troops

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• If the Israeli Army Invades Rafah, What Will Be of More Than 1.5 Million Palestinians Who Take Shelter There?

  
  February 13, 2024 15:03

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-02-10/ty-article-magazine/.premium/if-israel-invades-rafah-what-will-be-of-over-1-5m-palestinians-who-take-shelter-there/0000018d-9360-d443-a19f-fff113ba0000?

   

  By Amira Hass

  Published February 10, 2023

   

  An Israeli invasion of Rafah will lead to a mass, panicked exodus of nearly a million Palestinian civilians towards a designated safe zone roughly the size of Ben-Gurion Airport. It's still unclear how the IDF plans to reconcile this with the ICJ's order that Israel must take all measures to avoid acts of genocide

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• Israel must end its occupation of Palestine to stop fuelling apartheid and systematic human rights violations

  
  February 20, 2024 15:11

  Source: Amnesty International

  https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/02/israel-must-end-its-occupation-of-palestine-to-stop-fuelling-apartheid-and-systematic-human-rights-violations/

   

  Published February 19, 2024 

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• Zionism and colonial modernity

  
  February 20, 2024 14:53

  Source: Mondoweiss

  https://mondoweiss.net/2024/01/zionism-and-colonial-modernity/?utm_content=buffer16de3&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=buffer

   

  By MUHANNAD AYYASH 

  Published January 16, 2024

   

  Palestinian resistance is a decolonial struggle against Israeli settler colonialism and U.S. imperialism. This resistance is also confronting the brutal nature of colonial modernity, which is exemplified in Zionism.

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• Which countries have stopped supplying arms to Israel?

  
  February 20, 2024 14:53

  Source: Al-Jazeera

  https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/2/15/which-countries-have-stopped-supplying-arms-to-israel

   

  By Al-Jazeera staff

  Published February 15, 2024

   

  As civilian casualties continue to mount in Gaza, global calls for countries to halt arms sales to Israel grow.

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• When words fail, we must turn to the law

  
  February 27, 2024 15:43

  Source: Al-Jazeera

  https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/2/23/when-words-fail-we-must-turn-to-the-law

   

  By Mohamad Alasmar

  Published February 23, 2024

   

  For the sake of children, we have to demand an end to the violence and adherence to international law in Palestine.

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• Israel has occupied Palestinian territories since 1967; UN court considers whether that’s legal

  
  February 27, 2024 15:25

  Source: Blue Marble

  https://globalaffairs.org/bluemarble/israel-has-occupied-palestinian-territories-1967-un-court-considers-whether-thats-legal

   

  By Hope O'Dell

  Published February 20, 2023

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• Zionism and the Annihilation of Gaza: The Problem in Palestine is Not Political, but Ideological

  
  February 27, 2024 15:35

  Source: Palestine Chronicle

  https://www.palestinechronicle.com/zionism-and-the-annihilation-of-gaza-the-problem-in-palestine-is-not-political-but-ideological/

   

  By Ramzy Baroud

  Published February 21, 2024

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• Israel’s Siege on Gaza – Children Die from Starvation, Get Poisoned by Animal Feed

  
  March 05, 2024 15:15

  Source: Palestine Chronicle

  https://www.palestinechronicle.com/israels-siege-on-gaza-children-die-from-starvation-get-poisoned-by-animal-feed/

   

  By Palestine Chronicle Staff

  Published March 5, 2024

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