Common Grounds

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• How to stop Israel from starving Gaza

  
  September 16, 2025 13:37

  Source: Al-Jazeera

  https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/9/4/how-to-stop-israel-from-starving-gaza

   

  By Jeffrey Sachs and Sybil Fares

  Published September 4, 2025

   

  Washington shields Israel as it commits the darkest of crimes, but the family of nations still has the means and duty to act.

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• As its former ambassadors, we urge the EU to sanction Israel now

  
  September 23, 2025 15:10

  Source: Al-Jazeera

  https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/9/17/as-its-former-ambassadors-we-urge-the-eu-to-sanction-israel-now

   

  By Former EU and Member State Ambassadors and Senior Officials

   

  Europe must not let Gaza become the graveyard of international law and human rights.

  The full list of signatories of this letter can be viewed here.

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• Opinion | The Banality of Evil

  
  September 23, 2025 14:11

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025-09-16/ty-article-opinion/.premium/the-banality-of-evil/00000199-541b-d7ad-a1d9-547b3c370000

   

  By Ahmad Tibi

  Published September 16, 2025

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• Genocide label spurring further legal action against Israel

  
  September 23, 2025 14:36

  Source: Arab News

  https://www.arabnews.com/node/2616276

   

  By Dr Ramzy Baroud

  Published September 22, 2025

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• Trump promises Arab, Muslim leaders he won’t let Israel annex the West Bank

  
  September 30, 2025 14:10

  Source: Politico

  https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/24/trump-west-bank-annex-00578051

   

  By Felicia Schwartz, Eli Stokols, Nicholas Vinocur and Hans von der Burchard

  Published September 24, 2025

   

  The president’s pledge came in a closed-door meeting at the UN.

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• As Israel wages war on the whole region, the Arabs are finally turning

  
  September 30, 2025 14:41

  Source: Jews for Justice for Palestinians

  https://jfjfp.com/as-israel-wages-war-on-the-whole-region-the-arabs-are-finally-turning/

   

  David Hearst writes in Middle East Eye on 24 September 2025

   

  Israel is clearly embarked on an expansion by brute force. Only the combined diplomatic, economic, and military force of the region is capable of stopping it

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• Our Wednesday News Analysis | Recognition of Palestine is a repeat of the West’s Oslo ‘peace’ fraud

  
  September 30, 2025 15:17

  Source: Jonathan Cook Blog

  https://www.jonathan-cook.net/2025-09-26/recognition-of-palestine-is-a-repeat-of-the-wests-oslo-peace-fraud/

   

  By Jonathan Cook

  Published September 26, 2025

   

  Britain’s Keir Starmer is already pulling the rug from under his own grudging declaration. The only hope of change is of the unintended consequences variety

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• Will Gaza Surrender? Ramzy Baroud and Robert Inlakesh Discuss Trump’s Plan on FloodGate

  
  October 07, 2025 15:56

  Source: Palestine Chronicle

  https://www.palestinechronicle.com/will-gaza-surrender-ramzy-baroud-and-robert-inlakesh-discuss-trumps-plan-on-floodgate/

   

  By Romana Rubeo

  Published October 6, 2025

   

  In this FloodGate episode, Baroud and Inlakesh dissect Trump’s so-called Gaza plan, exposing how Western diplomacy seeks to turn genocide into surrender. 

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• Between a revolution and a whisper

  
  October 07, 2025 15:31

  Source: +972 Magazine

  https://www.972mag.com/between-a-revolution-and-a-whisper/

   

  By Thawra Abukhdeir

  Published October 6, 2025

   

  For Palestinians in Israel, self-censorship has long been a survival mechanism, our silence is the condition of our citizenship. However, upon encountering solidarity abroad, I realized that my body had forgotten what it felt like to speak freely.

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• This war of revenge has lasted two nightmare years. There’s only one hope for peace: Israel recognising Palestine

  
  October 07, 2025 15:40

  Source The Guardian

  https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/07/war-peace-israel-recognising-palestine-donald-trump-gaza

   

  By Raja Shehadeh

  Published October 7, 2025

   

  Donald Trump’s proposals are in play, but here in the West Bank, we live in fear that the devastation of Gaza is coming our way

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