Common Grounds

‘Our Nakba and Their Independence’: On the Problem with the Zionists’ Version of Two Narratives

May 10, 2022 15:40
Source: Palestine Chronicle

https://www.palestinechronicle.com/our-nakba-and-their-independence-on-the-problem-with-the-zionists-version-of-two-narratives/

By Benay Blend

Published May 5, 2022
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The EU Goes After Russian Oil Sales to Europe—With an Eye on a Larger Target

May 06, 2022 12:18
Source: Carnegie Endowment For International Peace

https://carnegieendowment.org/2022/05/05/eu-goes-after-russian-oil-sales-to-europe-with-eye-on-larger-target-pub-87080?utm_source=ctw&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=buttonlink&mkt_tok=

By Noah Gordon

Published May 5, 2022
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Soft Power After Ukraine

May 08, 2022 22:15
Source: Project Syndicate

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/soft-power-after-russia-war-in-ukraine-by-joseph-s-nye-2022-05

By JOSEPH S. NYE, JR.

Published May 3, 2022

While hard military power will decide the outcome of Russia's war in Ukraine, the power of values, persuasion, and attraction are hardly irrelevant. Though soft power tends to operate more subtly and over a longer time horizon, it has nonetheless emerged as a key feature of Ukraine's defense.
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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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Why anti-Russia boycotts should revive the Palestinian BDS movement

May 10, 2022 15:31
Source: Jews for Justice for Palestinians

https://jfjfp.com/why-anti-russia-boycotts-should-revive-the-palestinian-bds-movement/

Nada Elia writes in Middle East Eye

Published May 9, 2022
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Doing Business with Apartheid: Why Africa Must Reject Israeli Colonialism

February 22, 2022 15:29
Source: Ramzy Baroud, Politics for the people

http://www.ramzybaroud.net/doing-business-with-apartheid-why-africa-must-reject-israeli-colonialism/

Published February 16, 2022
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No Peace without Justice: On Determining the Future of Palestine

June 21, 2022 14:44
Source: Palestine Chronicle

https://www.palestinechronicle.com/no-peace-without-justice-on-determining-the-future-of-palestine/

By Benay Blend

Published June 17, 2022
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UN envoy warns of risk of new Israel-Palestinian violence

December 03, 2021 11:59
Source: Haaretz

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/un-envoy-warns-of-risk-of-new-israel-palestinian-violence-1.10430090

The Associated Press

Published December 1, 2021

Tor Wennesland says parties must calm tensions, reduce violence across the Palestinian territories, avoid unilateral steps including new Israeli settlement building and solidify the May cease-fire
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Do China and Russia want to replace the US as mediators in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?

December 02, 2021 14:03
Source: Atlantic Council

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/menasource/do-china-and-russia-want-to-replace-the-us-as-mediators-in-the-israeli-palestinian-conflict/

By Richard LeBaron, Mohamed Bin Huwaidin, Daniel Rakov, Jonathan Fulton, and Joze Pelayo

Published May 21, 2021

This article is part of a strategic collaboration launched by the Atlantic Council (Washington, DC), the Emirates Policy Center (Abu Dhabi), and the Institute for National Security Studies (Tel Aviv). The authors are associated with the initiative’s Working Group on Chinese and Russian Power Projection in the Middle East. The views expressed by the authors are theirs and not their institutions’.
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'I Showed Palestinians the Footage That Israel Looted. They Started to Cry'

December 06, 2021 11:21
Source: Haaretz

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium.HIGHLIGHT.MAGAZINE-i-showed-palestinians-the-footage-that-israel-looted-they-started-to-cry-1.10438349?utm_source=mailchimp&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=daily-brief&utm_content=8a994565d9

By Nirit Anderman

Published December 4, 2021

In the 1982 Lebanon War, the Israeli army raided the PLO archive in Beirut, confiscating numerous reels of film depicting Palestinian life. A new film by Karnit Mandel reveals her quest to find the mysterious footage
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