Common Grounds

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• Netanyahu is on a mission to seize the Middle East. Will anyone stop him?

  
  August 26, 2025 14:24

  Source: Jews for Justice for Palestinians

  https://jfjfp.com/netanyahu-is-on-a-mission-to-seize-the-middle-east-will-anyone-stop-him/

   

  David Hearst writes in Middle East Eye on 18 August 2025:

   

  The Israeli prime minister's vision of the Promised Land means that the Gaza genocide heralds the beginning of a vicious territorial campaign

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• Why Israel is systematically erasing Gaza’s intellectuals

  
  August 26, 2025 14:31

  Source: Arab News

  https://www.arabnews.com/node/2612239

   

  By Dr. Ramzy Baroud

  Published August 18, 2025

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• US lifeline masks Israel’s economic freefall

  
  September 02, 2025 15:11

  Source: Arab News

  https://www.arabnews.com/node/2612975

   

  By Dr Ramzy Baroud 

  Published August 25, 2025

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• Analysis | Netanyahu's Attack on the Gaza Famine Report Aims to Hide the Truth From Israelis

  
  September 02, 2025 14:49

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-08-24/ty-article/.premium/the-gaza-famine-report-netanyahus-attack-aims-to-hide-the-truth-from-israelis/00000198-dc05-daa7-a7fc-dc3f4ada0000

   

  By Nir Hasson

  Published August 24, 2025

   

  Israel rushed to discredit the report that determined Gaza is suffering from the highest level of famine. But lies and victim-playing do not change one basic fact: Israel starved Gazans until the world intervened

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• Zikim: Where Gaza’s Starving Risk Death for a Bag of Flour

  
  September 02, 2025 14:55

  Source: Palestine Chronicle

  https://www.palestinechronicle.com/zikim-where-gazas-starving-risk-death-for-a-bag-of-flour/

   

  By Shaimaa Eid

  Published August 30, 2025

   

  On this road, the stories of grieving mothers, orphaned children, and wounded survivors intersect, their bodies bearing living testimony to the brutality of the occupation.

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• In Gaza, western colonialism has been unmasked

  
  September 09, 2025 15:20

  Source: Middle East Eye

  https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/gaza-truth-about-western-colonialism-unmasked

   

  By Jonathan Cook

  Published September 9, 2025

   

  Through Israel and the ideology of Zionism, Western elites reinvented their ugly, racist system of control and sold it as a ‘moral’ cause. Now the game is up

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• Forget symbolic statehood — the world must recognize Israeli apartheid

  
  September 09, 2025 14:43

  Source: + 972 Magazine

  https://www.972mag.com/palestinian-statehood-israeli-apartheid-recognition/

   

  By Alaa Salama

  Published August 29, 2025

   

  The push to recognize a Palestinian state creates the illusion of action, but delays the real remedies: sanctioning and isolating Israel's apartheid regime.

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• Opinion | We Israelis Are Part of a Mafia Crime Family. It's Our Job to Fight Against It From Within

  
  September 09, 2025 14:54

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025-08-31/ty-article-opinion/.premium/we-israelis-are-part-of-a-crime-family-its-our-job-to-fight-against-it-from-within/00000198-ff06-d2dc-afde-ff1f611a0000

   

  By Michael Sfard

  Published August 31, 2025

   

  The criminal, felonious, unforgivable project of Gaza's destruction is an all-Israeli project. It could not have happened without the cooperation – whether through active contribution or silence – of all parts of Jewish Israeli society

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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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