No return to status quo: How do Israelis and Palestinians find common ground?

Before October 7, Israeli hawks cynically characterised periodic flare-ups with Gaza as "cutting the grass". Now, after the bloodiest day since independence for Israel, and fighting escalating on multiple fronts, as well as the killing of more than 10,000 Palestinians, the reality can no longer be ignored. Nor each side's pain. 

The Algerian writer Kamel Daoud recently warned not to fall into the trap of turning "death tolls and suffering into a football match where you keep score", but it is much harder to find common ground and unearth the forlorn path to a viable and lasting political settlement.

Produced by Charles Wente, Josephine Joly and Imen Mellaz.

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