Common Grounds

Opinion | No Good Government Can Exist in Israel Without Jewish-Arab Cooperation

November 04, 2025 12:25
Source: Haaretz

https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025-11-03/ty-article-opinion/.premium/no-good-government-can-exist-in-israel-without-jewish-arab-cooperation/0000019a-4a7e-dda1-a99e-cffebff60000

By Michal Sella

Published November 3, 2025
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Zohran Mamdani’s historic run will also help free Jews, and U.S. politics, from Zionism

November 04, 2025 15:10
Source: Mondoweiss

https://mondoweiss.net/2025/10/zohran-mamdanis-historic-run-will-also-help-free-jews-and-u-s-politics-from-zionism/

By Philip Weiss

Published October 31, 2025

Zohran Mamdani’s historic campaign for New York mayor marks a significant moment for Jewish identity as more Jews distance themselves from Zionism. This will be a fierce generational fight with wide-reaching effects on American politics.
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Our Friday News Analysis | What the World Reads Now!

November 06, 2025 21:35

Helping to Heal a Broken Humanity (Part 59)

The Hague, 7 October 2025 | If you know of a decisive story, tell the world! We're still searching
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After Gaza: Four Roads, One Destination

November 11, 2025 14:54
Source: Palestine Chronicle

https://www.palestinechronicle.com/not-if-but-how-four-scenarios-for-the-end-of-the-zionist-project/

By Sami Al-Arian

Published November 8, 2025

The question now is not whether the Zionist regime will change course, but how each path ultimately accelerates the end of the Zionist enterprise as a system of racial domination and supremacy over an indigenous people.
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‘I’m happy and sad to see you’: The paradox of surviving the Gaza genocide

November 11, 2025 14:09
Source: Mondoweiss

https://mondoweiss.net/2025/10/im-happy-and-sad-to-see-you-the-paradox-of-surviving-the-gaza-genocide/

By Hassan El-Nabih

Published October 26, 2025

A chance encounter with one of my past students at the Islamic University of Gaza highlighted the paradox of surviving the Gaza genocide: feeling joy in surviving the war and sorrow in witnessing what our survival has cost us.
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Analysis Peace and War: Trump's Gaza Plan Will Either Move Ahead Soon – or Die

November 11, 2025 14:21
Source: Haaretz

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-11-04/ty-article/.premium/peace-and-war-trumps-gaza-plan-will-either-move-ahead-soon-or-die/0000019a-4f87-df58-ad9e-df9f56d00000

By Amir Tibon

Published November 4, 2025

The U.S. administration seems serious about moving towards the next phases of the Israel/Hamas cease-fire deal – but that means there's no more room for convenient ambiguity. Forming and deploying Trump's International Stabilization Force is an imminent test of its commitment, and it means making hard choices
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Israel can’t fly us all out to South Africa

November 18, 2025 14:23
Source: Al-Jazeera

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/11/16/israel-cant-fly-us-all-out-to-south-africa

By Refaat Ibrahim

Published November 16, 2025

The paid forced deportation flights are the latest Israeli scheme in a long history of failed ethnic cleansing efforts.
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Islam vs the West: The four biggest fallacies about Islam explained

November 18, 2025 14:42
Source: Jonathan Cook Blog

https://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2025-11-03/islam-vs-west-four-fallacies/

By Jonathan Cook

Published November 3, 2025
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How Zionism and Its Traditional Relationship to Antisemitism is Playing Out Today

November 18, 2025 15:23
Source: Palestine Chronicle

https://www.palestinechronicle.com/how-zionism-and-its-traditional-relationship-to-antisemitism-is-playing-out-today/

By Tony Greenstein

Published November 15, 2025

Given that antisemitism in the West has declined almost to the vanishing point, and arguably only exists because the Zionist movement associates Jews with Israel’s genocide, they can live with those contradictions.
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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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