Year: 2024 - Page 5 - Massachusetts Peace Action

What is that thing we call Terrorism?

October 2, 2024 Lux H.

by Lux H. The 2024 Israel-Lebanon conflict is now in full force following the events on September 17th and 18th, during which Israel remotely detonated thousands of pagers and walkie-talkies across Lebanon belonging to members of Hezbollah, a Lebanese paramilitary group. This was one of […]

The International Court of Justice reads the Advisory Opinion of the Court on “Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory,” on July 19, 2024. (Photo: International Court of Justice)

World Court: Israel’s Occupation of Palestinian Territories is Illegal

September 30, 2024 Susan Nicholson

by Susan Nicholson Remarks presented at the Community Encampment for Palestine, Lynn, MA, September 28, 2024 First of two articles Two recent ground-breaking developments at the international level provide important tools for Palestine advocacy: (1) the July 19 Opinion issued by the International Court of […]

Boy sitting in the rubble of a destroyed UNRWA school in Nuseirat, Gaza. © 2024 UNRWA Photo

To Aid Gaza, U.S. Must Restore UNRWA Funding

September 30, 2024 Mirret El-Hagrassy

by Mirret El-Hagrassy UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, provides humanitarian services and human development for Palestinian refugees, and is considered a lifeline to Palestinians. Previously the largest funder if UNRWA, the United States government terminated […]

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September 26, 2024 Hoffmann the Organizer

By Hoffmann the Organizer I guess the Cuban Missile Crisis wouldn’t make the front page today. Lots of items related to the war in Ukraine do get headliner treatment from the New York Times. Poetry readings by soldiers, art “inspired” by the war, dancing and […]

Mural on the wall separating Lebanon from northern Israel: “Gate of Return” depicting Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa seen through a hole blown in the wall, with the joined faces of Hezbollah and Palestinian fighters to its right. (Photo: Jeff Klein/ MAPA)

Lebanon’s Shi’a: ‘One foot in Heaven, One Foot in Resistance’

September 26, 2024 Jeff Klein

by Jeff Klein Originally published by Mondoweiss, October 2022 The border between Lebanon and Israel is perennially tense. Israel has invaded Lebanon at least three times and it occupied much of Lebanon’s south for eighteen years, until forced out by resistance fighters in 2000. Retaliatory […]

To Stop Israel’s Expanding War, Biden Must Stop Arms

September 25, 2024 Brian Garvey

by Brian Garvey Israel’s violence toward its neighbors, long out of control in its destruction of Gaza, now threatens to open new fronts, involve new nations, and even drag the United States into direct conflict. Promises of a ceasefire from the Biden Administration have come […]

The Realities of Fallout 2024

September 17, 2024 Silas Rutherford

By Silas Rutherford The hit TV show Fallout (2024) opens with a satirical depiction of societies within fallout shelters in a kitsch all-American fashion – like watching a colorful, upbeat advertisement for a soul sucking product. Digital projections of pre nuclear bomb suburban towns overshadow […]