Common Grounds

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• The war will only end when Israelis understand this simple truth

  
  February 04, 2025 13:26

  Source: Jews for Justice for Palestinians 

  https://jfjfp.com/the-war-will-only-end-when-israelis-understand-this-simple-truth/

   

  Orly Noy writes in +972 on 24 January 2025

   

  Most Israelis now support a Gaza ceasefire. But they still fail to realize that where there is oppression there will always be resistance.

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• How the West hides its Gaza genocide guilt behind Holocaust Day remembrance

  
  February 04, 2025 14:41

  Source: Middle East Eye

  https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/west-hides-gaza-genocide-guilt-holocaust-day-how

   

  By Jonathan Cook

  Published January 31, 2025

   

  The ghosts of thousands of Palestinian children crushed by Israeli bombs loomed over this year's Auschwitz commemorations

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• The strategic cost of Israel’s endless wars

  
  February 11, 2025 15:24

  Source: Arab News

  https://www.arabnews.com/node/2589674

   

  By Dr Ramzy Baroud

  Published February 10, 2025

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• Trump must not be allowed to torpedo the Palestinian right to remain

  
  February 11, 2025 14:48

  Source: Al-Jazeera

  https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/2/5/trump-must-not-be-allowed-to-torpedo-the-palestinian-right-to

   

  By Naama Blatman and Neve Gordon

  Published February 5, 2025

   

  US president’s latest comments confirm Israel’s wholesale destruction of Gaza is aimed at permanently removing its Palestinian population.

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• Hypothetical, but Plausible: How to End the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict for Good, Right Now

  
  February 11, 2025 15:15

  Source: Haaretz

  https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-01-23/ty-article-magazine/.premium/how-to-end-the-israeli-palestinian-conflict-for-good-right-now/00000194-9466-d9aa-afff-957f2a0d0000?dicbo=v2-

   

  By Dahlia Scheindlin

  Published January 23, 2025

   

  Israel has a pattern of leveraging wars for annexation, but what if it seized on the Gaza cease-fire as a gateway to a comprehensive vision for ending the conflict by political agreement? And what if the Palestinians and world powers joined? Here's one scenario

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• Being Jewish after Gaza: Peter Beinart's 'reckoning' is a bid to rehabilitate Zionism

  
  February 18, 2025 17:53

  Source: Middle East Eye

  https://www.middleeasteye.net/discover/peter-beinart-being-jewish-after-gaza-destruction-book-review

   

  By Azad Essa

  Published February 14, 2025

   

  Beinart's latest book treats Zionism as a given, erases historical Jewish opposition to the racist ideology, and gives credence to a Jewish claim over Palestine

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• From Turtle Island to Palestine: On the Forced Transfer of Indigenous People from Their Land

  
  February 18, 2025 17:50

  Source: Palestine Chronicle

  https://www.palestinechronicle.com/from-turtle-island-to-palestine-on-the-forced-transfer-of-indigenous-people-from-their-land/

   

  By Benay Blend

  Published February 14, 2025

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• ‘No to ethnic cleansing’: over 350 rabbis sign US ad assailing Trump’s Gaza plan

  
  February 18, 2025 17:53

  Source: The Guardian

  https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/13/rabbis-ad-trump-gaza-plan

   

  By Maya Yang

  Published February 13, 2025

   

  Jewish creatives and activists also sign New York Times ad after US president’s proposal to ‘take over Gaza’

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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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