Following news that Israel is bombing Iran, Iraq, and Syria tonight, Massachusetts Peace Action executive director Brian Garvey released the following statement: “The US should say out of the conflict between Israel and Iran. Israel is bombing Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen — picking a […]
By Joseph Gerson This article was originally published in Common Dreams. The political will must be found to extinguish the violent conflicts that put us ever closer to nuclear annihilation. This is a most unusual election season. While the media focuses on Georgia and Nevada […]
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 […]
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 […]
By Kathy Kelly This article first appeared in The Progressive. Failure to stop Israel’s genocide of Palestinians gambles with the fate of humanity as a whole Following World War II, Albert Camus posed a “formidable gamble” to those who had survived a tragedy of immense proportions. “We’re in […]
By Susan Nicholson THE BACKGROUND Since the landmark ruling by the International Court of Justice on January 26, 2024 that at least some of Israel’s actions in Gaza are plausibly described as genocide (South Africa v. Israel), South Africa has returned to the ICJ on […]
by Cole Harrison It is an understatement to say that US policy in the Middle East is in disarray. The United States is involved in a geopolitical contest for control of the Middle East, which is still the center of the world’s oil supply. In […]
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