According to pro-Israel groups it is unacceptable to refer to what Israel is doing in Gaza as “genocide” or “terrorism,” as if there were better terms to use to describe: the indiscriminate bombing of heavily populated areas.
A former permanent representative of Israel to the United Nations said he was very puzzled by the constant concern which the world is showing for the Palestinian people. He cited U.S. actions after Sept. 11 as a model for what Israel should do
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I just don’t think it will bring us any closer to a better position, Yonatan Zeigen, whose mother, Vivian Silver, is a hostage, said. Vengeance is not something to build foundations on. It is not a strategy. How many dead Palestinians will be enough?
Before October 7 Gaza received some 500 trucks of food and other supplies every day, including 45 trucks of fuel to power the strip’s cars, water desalination plants and bakeries. Women, children and elderly people are being killed – no one is spared
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Why calling for a ceasefire is the right move, politically and morally. Calling for a ceasefire would, at the very least, change the conversation—and make better use of the knowledge hard won from actions we regret.
After the signing of the Oslo Accords, fundamentalist rabbis branded Rabin a “traitor” and issued a din rodef against him, an authorization to assassinate him. Benjamin Netanyahu, then leader of the opposition, was the keynote speaker at two protests
Some continue to minimize massacres of Israeli civilians - this only fuels militant Zionism. What could lessen its power, drain it of some of that fuel? True solidarity. Humanism that unites people across ethnic and religious lines.
A former top aide for Bernie Sanders on how Israel’s critics on the political left see the Hamas attack and what this means for deal-making in the region.
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