Common Grounds

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• I stayed until the end, Dr Abu Nujaila. We will remember and rebuild

  
  February 25, 2025 15:20

  Source: Al-Jazeera

  https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/2/16/i-stayed-until-the-end-dr-nujaila-we-will-remember-and-rebuild

   

  By Hend Salama Abo Helow

  Published February 16, 2025

   

  The self-sacrifice of Palestinian doctors in Gaza has inspired a new generation of medical students. I am one of them.

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• Netanyahu only ever saw the hostages as his path back to genocide

  
  March 04, 2025 16:34

  Source: substack.com

  https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/netanyahu-only-ever-saw-the-hostages

   

  By Jonathan Cook

  Published February 26, 2025

   

  Western leaders and media are helping bolster a propaganda narrative about the Israeli captives that makes the resumption of Israel’s slaughter all but inevitable

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• Gaza has survived for thousands of years. It cannot be erased by Trump and Israel

  
  March 04, 2025 15:22

  Source: Middle East Eye

  https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/gaza-survived-thousands-years-cannot-erased-trump-israel

   

  By Soumaya Ghannoushi

  Published February 25, 2025

   

  Palestinians will stay on their land, because to abandon it would be to betray all those who walked before them

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• Manifest Destiny and Zionism, a legacy of ethnic cleansing

  
  March 11, 2025 15:43

  Source: Mondoweiss

  https://mondoweiss.net/2025/03/manifest-destiny-and-zionism-a-legacy-of-ethnic-cleansing/

   

  By Alexander Shelby

  Published March 5, 2025

   

  When Donald Trump proposed turning Gaza into the “Riviera of the Middle East” by forcefully removing its indigenous Palestinian population, he was not introducing a new idea but following an American tradition as old as Manifest Destiny itself.

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• Broken toys among the ashes: Children in the shadow of war

  
  March 11, 2025 15:37

  Source: Daily Sabah

  https://www.dailysabah.com/opinion/op-ed/broken-toys-among-the-ashes-children-in-the-shadow-of-war

   

  By Melda Civelek

  Published March 10, 2025

   

  War's toll on children is immeasurable, as mental scars persist long after the bombs stop

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• Opinion | In the End, Hamas Remains

  
  March 18, 2025 15:43

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025-03-13/ty-article-opinion/.premium/only-hamas-remains/00000195-8bff-de2e-a195-9bff360d0000

   

  By Gideon Levy

  Published March 13, 2025

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• 'Our enemies commit genocide, not our friends': Leading genocide scholar and lawyer William Schabas on the double standards of calling out Israel's horrific crimes in Gaza

  
  March 18, 2025 16:00

  Source: The New Arab

  https://www.newarab.com/features/william-schabas-genocide-others-why-not-gaza

   

  By Sebastian Shehadi

  Published March 11, 2025

   

  The New Arab Meets: Lawyer William Schabas to examine why Israel's genocide in Gaza, including its self-defence rhetoric, are unlikely to succeed in court

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• Palestine question a key test of US foreign policy

  
  March 18, 2025 16:19

  Source: Arab News

  https://www.arabnews.com/node/2593895

   

  By Dr. Ramzy Baroud

  Published March 17, 2025

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• Would it be okay for Hamas to strike a hospital treating Benjamin Netanyahu?

  
  March 25, 2025 15:49

  Source: Jonathan Cook Blog

  https://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2025-03-24/hamas-hospital-strike-netanyahu/

   

  By Jonathan Cook

  Published March 24, 2025

   

  Israel has justified bombing a Gaza hospital, killing civilians, because an injured Hamas politician was there. The laws of war only ever seem to be forgotten when it is Israel violating them

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• Opinion | It Doesn't Matter What the UN Report on Gaza Says. Israel Will Ignore It Anyway

  
  March 25, 2025 15:03

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025-03-19/ty-article-opinion/.premium/it-doesnt-matter-what-the-un-report-on-gaza-says-israel-will-ignore-it-anyway/00000195-ae75-d9db-a3bf-ff7f2c5f0000

   

  By Becca Strober

  Published March 19, 2025

   

  Israeli officials labeled the report on gender-based violence 'antisemitic' and 'a blood libel.' Israeli society too dismisses human rights abuses. We have mastered the art of willful blindness

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