Middle East

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – My mother was a Lutheran and the Coles were Catholics, though my grandfather fell away when he married a woman from the Brethren peace church. So it was striking to me that on this Christmas a Lutheran pastor in Bethlehem, Munther Isaac, and Pope Francis both made headlines with their […]

Dissent

From BLM to Gaza: Inside the Youth-led fight for a Demilitarized Future

Waging Nonviolence

By Alessandra Bergamin | – ( Waging Nonviolence ) – In January 2020, Dissenters — a grassroots, youth-led antiwar movement — began with the mission to connect violence against Black and brown communities in the U.S. to the systems of oppression that fund, arm and enable global militarism. While born from the legacy of the […]

Israel/ Palestine

No, Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital was not a Hamas Command Center; Biden endorsed an Israeli Lie

Common Dreams

By Jake Johnson | – ( Commondreams.org) – The Israeli military launched a deadly assault on Gaza’s largest hospital last month on the grounds that the facility concealed a sprawling Hamas command center. But a detailed Washington Post investigation by By Louisa Loveluck, Evan Hill, Jonathan Baran, Jarrett Ley and Ellen Nakashima published Thursday found […]

Israel/ Palestine

What are the Motivations behind Israel’s Genocide in Gaza, and what is the Way Forward?

Yoav Litvin

Yoav Litvin is an Israeli-American doctor of psychology/neuroscience, a writer and photographer. ( AlJazeera ) – On October 7, Hamas fighters breached the Gaza prison fence, launching a coordinated attack on at least seven Israeli military installations and more than 20 surrounding residential communities. Over 1000 Israeli citizens, both civilian and military, as well as […]

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Israelis have killed the same Percentage of Gazans in 11 Weeks as Allies did Italians in all of WW II

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The UN reports figures from the Gaza Ministry of Health as of Friday: “between 7 October and 7:00 on 22 December, at least 20,057 Palestinians were killed in Gaza. About 70 per cent of those killed are said to be women and children. As of then, 53,320 Palestinians have been […]

Anti-War Movement

Just Say No: Biden Must Create Peace out of the Gaza Crisis and Rein in the Israeli Right

Lior Sternfeld

Take a Leaf from the Book of George H. W. Bush

Houthi

Gaza Crisis: US-Led Taskforce deploys in Red Sea and Considers Strikes on Yemen

The Conversation

By Basil Germond, Lancaster University | – The US is reportedly considering strikes against Houthi rebels in Yemen that have been menacing commercial ships in the Red Sea since the conflict began in Gaza. The Pentagon has a range of options for missile attacks on Houthi positions and has moved the Dwight D. Eisenhower carrier […]

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If you Prick us, do We not Bleed? – Shakespeare in Gaza

Mark Karlin

(Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Is there a scale that can measure the value of 7,000 dead Palestinian children vs. 1200 dead Israelis? What is to be measured, the weight of their souls? Can such a scale ascribe the worth of one group of the dead as being of greater value than the other […]