Tag: Palestine

What would you do to rectify the historical injustice visited on your people?

In a destabilizing moment like this, we need time-tested strategies and tactics that can help guide effective action.

Netanyahu is saying the same thing to pregnant mothers, toddlers, and other civilian collateral damage of his total war on Gaza.

"The evil and barbaric terror attacks on Israelis by Hamas were a blasphemous outrage. But the civilians of Gaza are not responsible for the crimes of Hamas."

Vengeful attacks only deepen hatreds and mistrust.

Israel has dropped more than 6,000 bombs on Gaza—home to 2.3 million people—in the wake of Hamas' deadly attack.

Where is the U.S. peace movement and the U.S. public outrage?

"Wars have rules," said the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees. "Civilians, hospitals, schools, clinics, and UN premises cannot be a target."

"My message to all sides is unequivocal: The laws of war must be upheld," Martin Griffiths, the U.N.'s under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs, who called the scale and speed of the ongoing violence "bone-chilling."

“The horrific cycle of violence in the Middle East will not end until the Israeli occupation ends—and a huge obstacle to ending the occupation has been the U.S. government.”