Common Grounds

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• The Last Days of Gaza

  
  June 10, 2025 15:32

  Source: The Chris Hedges Report

  https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-last-days-of-gaza

   

  By Chris Hedges

  Published June 9, 2025

   

  The genocide is almost complete. When it is concluded it will not only have decimated the Palestinians, but will have exposed the moral bankruptcy of Western civilization.

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• ‘Hamas has Defeated Us’ – Ret. Israeli Maj. Gen. Brik Speaks of ‘Collective Suicide’

  
  June 10, 2025 15:08

  Source: Palestine Chronicle

  https://www.palestinechronicle.com/hamas-has-defeated-us-ret-israeli-maj-gen-brik-speaks-of-collective-suicide/

   

  By Palestine Chronicle Staff

  Published June 8, 2025

   

  The retired general directly addressed the ongoing war on Gaza, now entering its twentieth month, dismissing official Israeli claims of progress.

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• Gaza’s ‘humanitarian’ façade: A deceptive ploy unraveled

  
  June 10, 2025 15:18

  Source: Middle East Monitor

  https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250604-gazas-humanitarian-facade-a-deceptive-ploy-unraveled/

   

  By Dr Ramzy Baroud

  Published June 4, 2025

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• ‘Not in our name’: historic anti-Zionist Congress underway in Vienna

  
  June 17, 2025 16:26

  Source: 5Pillars

  https://5pillarsuk.com/2025/06/14/not-in-our-name-historic-anti-zionist-congress-underway-in-vienna/

   

  By Rob Carter

  Published June 14, 2025

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• Our Wednesday News Analysis | Greta Thunberg tried to shame western leaders – and found they have no shame

  
  June 17, 2025 16:51

  Source: Jonathan Cook Blog

  https://www.jonathan-cook.net/2025-06-12/greta-thunberg-shame-west-leaders/

   

  By Jonathan Cook

  Published June 12, 2025

  Middle East Eye – 12 June 2025

   

  Israel is completing its genocide. Keir Starmer says the aid blockade is ‘intolerable’. And yet day after day he tolerates Israel’s bombs, gunfire and mass starvation campaign

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• Israel no longer hides its genocidal aims in Gaza. Will the world keep looking away?

  
  June 17, 2025 16:32

  Source: Jews for Justice for Palestinians

  https://jfjfp.com/israel-no-longer-hides-its-genocidal-aims-in-gaza-will-the-world-keep-looking-away/

   

  Omar H. Rahman writes in +972 on 3 June 2025

   

  Since Trump's return, Israel has dropped all pretenses of self-defense. But even as it evades accountability, it has cemented its legacy as a global pariah.

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• Sumud: The unyielding heart of the Palestinian cause in Gaza

  
  June 24, 2025 15:10

  Source: Middle East Monitor

  https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250621-sumud-the-unyielding-heart-of-the-palestinian-cause-in-gaza/

   

  By Dr Ramzy Baroud

  Published June 21, 2025

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• Israel’s attack on Iran: The violent new world being born is going to horrify you

  
  June 24, 2025 15:31

  Source: Jonathan Cook Blog

  https://www.jonathan-cook.net/2025-06-19/israel-attack-iran-new-world/

   

  By Jonathan Cook

  Published June 19, 2025

   

  Twenty years ago, the US warned prematurely of the ‘birth pangs’ of a new Middle East. Now they have arrived in full force – and they will not end in Iran

   

  Middle East Eye – 19 June 2025

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• THINK! | A Way to Getting to Know the OTHER and One ANOTHER

  
  April 04, 2024 22:56

  Making a Difference – The Means, Methods, and Mechanism for Many to Move Mountains

   

  By: Abraham A. van Kempen, Editor

   

  Those who commit to 'healing our broken humanity' build intercultural bridges to learn to know and understand one another and others. Readers who thumb through the Building the Bridge (BTB) pages are not mindless sheep following other mindless sheep. They THINK. They want to be at the forefront of making a difference. They're in search of the bigger picture to expand their horizons. They don't need BTB or anyone else to confirm their biases.

   

  Making a Difference – The Means, Methods, and Mechanism for Many to Move Mountains

   

  Accurate knowledge promotes understanding, dispels prejudice, and awakens the desire to learn more. Words have an extraordinary power to bring people together, divide them, forge bonds of friendship, or provoke hostility. Modern technology places unprecedented possibilities for good at our disposal, fostering harmony and reconciliation. Yet its misuse can do untold harm, leading to misunderstanding, prejudice, and conflict.

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