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Israeli Blockade of Humanitarian Aid

March 19, 2025 Lila Li

by Lila Li On Sunday, March 2nd, Israel blocked the entry of all humanitarian aid into Gaza. A week later, energy minister Eli Cohen announced his decision to shut down Gaza’s electricity supply. Without true leadership, external support, and now essential supplies, the people of […]

Slow Motion Ethnic Cleansing in Hebron

March 12, 2025 Ken Jones

by Ken Jones This article was originally published in CounterPunch. “Tell our story!” the man in the checkpoint cage yelled, in English. He and a crowd of Palestinian Muslim men were jammed together waiting to be checked out, one at a time, by an Israeli […]

MAPA Voices: “God in Gaza?” by Peter Kakos

December 18, 2024 Peter Kakos

God In Gaza? Look: There, on that hospital floor demolished by OUR bombs, crowded with patients with no place to flee; Look: in tents of the displaced masses, fire-bombed at night, children -clinging to IVs- burned alive, (MAY IT HAVE BEEN INSTANT!!!); […]

Some Way Out of Here: Common Security in a World On Fire

October 8, 2024 Joseph Gerson

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 […]

Who Is Kamala Harris? (Part II) Aggressive Foreign and Military Policies

September 17, 2024 Joseph Gerson

By Joseph Gerson This article is Part II in a series originally published in Common Dreams. Read Part I here. As she accepted the Democratic nomination, Harris promised to maintain the world’s “most lethal” military and ensure that “America—not China—wins the competition for the 21st […]

MAPA Voices: “Empty words” by Grace Sanford

February 21, 2024 Grace Sanford

Empty words What is this world We live in? We change the numbers Of deaths each week Delete a three, add a six Such a simple task But is the result Of horror we can’t imagine. An execution, delete, add 15 A bombing, delete, add […]

Palestinian teenager Ali Abu Alia, killed by Israeli military forces December 4

Stop Sending Murder Weapons to Israel!

December 15, 2020 Jeff Klein

by Jeff Klein On December 4 this year, a Palestinian boy, Ali Abu Alia, was shot and killed by Israeli security forces as he watched a protest in his West Bank village of al-Mughayer. Unarmed villagers were demonstrating against the confiscation of their farm lands […]