Common Grounds

Why I'm Saying No to the IDF as a 17-Year-Old

May 09, 2023 14:34
Source: Common Dreams

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/refusing-to-serve-in-the-idf

By Fred Hidvegi

Published April 27, 2023

As my birthday approaches, I grow more and more anxious because a professional organization of trained terrorists that calls itself an army wants me to be one of them. And if I say no, a prison sentence will be the result.
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Why we Palestinians see ourselves in Khader Adnan

May 09, 2023 14:26
Source: +972 Magazine

https://www.972mag.com/palestinians-khader-adnan/

By Amjad Iraqi
Published May 5, 2023

Those trying to undermine public anger over the hunger striker's death don't want to talk about the violent carceral regime that he struggled against.
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The Israeli right’s most dangerous anti-Palestinian smear

April 25, 2023 15:57
Source: Jews for Justice for Palestinians

https://jfjfp.com/the-israeli-rights-most-dangerous-anti-palestinian-smear/

Natasha Roth-Rowland writes in +972

Published April 24, 2023

The Jewish far right has been calling Palestinians 'Nazis' for almost 80 years, casting them as an irredeemable enemy in an eternal war.
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Palestinian Prisoner's Day: How I survived a decade in Israeli prison

April 25, 2023 15:52
Source: Middle East Eye

https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/how-eid-christmas-helped-me-survive-decade-israeli-prison

By Ameer Makhoul

Published April 16, 2023

A Palestinian activist and former political prisoner recounts his time in an Israeli prison where he formed a community among his fellow prisoners
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The Deir Yassin massacre: Why it still matters 75 years later

April 11, 2023 15:17
Source: Al Jazeera

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/4/9/the-deir-yassin-massacre-why-it-still-matters-75-years-later?sf176644700=1

By Al Jazeera staff

Published April 9, 2023

The brutality of the Deir Yassin prompted thousands of Palestinians to flee, just weeks before Israel was created.
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Al-Aqsa raid: How BBC coverage is enabling Israeli violence

April 11, 2023 14:49
Source: Middle East Eye

https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/aqsa-mosque-raid-israel-bbc-enabling-violence-how

By Jonathan Cook

Published April 6, 2023

Once again, the British state broadcaster is using a bogus ‘neutrality’ to trick its audience into siding with Israeli state oppression
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Democracy or apartheid: You can’t have both

April 11, 2023 14:18
Source: Peoples Dispatch

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/04/09/democracy-or-apartheid-you-cant-have-both/

By Nour

Published April 09, 2023

The idea that Israeli “democracy” can be protected by blocking the judicial overhaul is a myth. Any plans Israel had for democracy were destroyed when they began the Nakba in 1948.
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TRADING WITH THE ENEMY

April 13, 2023 11:59
Source: SEYMOUR HERSH

https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/trading-with-the-enemy?utm_source=substack&publication_id=1377040&post_id=114123549&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=false

By Seymour Hersh

Published April 12, 2023

Amid rampant corruption in Kiev and as US troops gather at the Ukrainian border, does the Biden administration have an endgame to the conflict?
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Israel’s One-State Reality

April 18, 2023 13:57
Source: Jewish Voice for Labour

https://www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/israels-one-state-reality/

By Michael Barnett, Nathan Brown, Marc Lynch, and Shibley Telhami, Foreign Affairs

Published April 15, 2023

It’s Time to Give Up on the Two-State Solution
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Quest for Religious War: How Israel is Unifying Arabs and Muslims around Palestine

April 25, 2023 15:27
Source: Palestine Chronicle

https://www.palestinechronicle.com/quest-for-religious-war-how-israel-is-unifying-arabs-and-muslims-around-palestine/

By Ramzy Baroud

Published April 12, 2023
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