Common Grounds

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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