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Today it’s 49 years in prison for Peltier, will get out Feb. 18, no rush

What is 49 times 365? 17,885. It would be 17,885, but he also had 13 leap years… Leonard is still in prison. Biden signed on January 20, 15 minutes before leaving the president’s chair, but, you know, bureaucracy takes time.…

Forcing The Palestinians Out Of Gaza Is A Recipe For Unimaginable Disaster

Even after Trump declared that he wanted to take back the Panama Canal, acquire Greenland by force, if necessary, and rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, I could not, like many others, imagine that his madness…

Israeli conscientious objector Netta Lannes Arbel: “I refuse to close my eyes. There’s another way”

Netta Lannes Arbel, 24 year-old from Emek Hefer, who refused to reenlist in the Israeli army in Ir HaBahadim Camp in southern Israel on December 29, was tried today for 8 days in military detention for his refusal. Lannes Arbel…

Save Dr. Hussam Abu Safia before he dies under torture in Israeli prisons

Dr. Hussam Abu Safia, a Palestinian born in Jabalia in 1973, is a pediatric consultant and currently the director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip. He is a leading figure in the health sector and is responsible…

Poetry faced with the unbearable: killing children

We join Rita Amabili, author, theologian and lecturer, in this vibrant call to reawaken our humanity, in the face of war,  facing children. Sometimes, poetry is the only way to speak out. KILLING CHILDREN[1] Do not kill children. Do not…

My Hunger Strike for Gaza: A 31 Day Experience

When Northern Gaza was placed under a complete siege, the Biden Administration issued a warning that if conditions didn’t improve within 30 days, he would stop weapons shipments to Israel. At the time of the announcement, hundreds of thousands of…

Why Do the Israelis Bomb Palestinian Homes in the Middle of the Night?

At 10 p.m. on the night of October 28, 2024, the Israeli air force struck a five-story building in Beit Lahiya, in the northern area of Gaza. Northern Gaza has been pummeled by the Israelis since October 8, 2023. There…

Appeal by Eszter Koranyi and Rana Salman, co-Directors of Combatants for Peace, to the Foreign Ministers attending the G7 in Fiuggi

Dear Foreign Ministers of the G7, We are speaking to you as a bi-national movement of Israelis and Palestinians who call for peace. As you sit down to discuss the fate of our region please listen carefully to our voices. …

Two conscientious objectors refuse to enlist in the Israeli army: “Get Out of Gaza now!”

Soul Behar Tsalik and Iddo Elam, both 18-year-old, will refuse to enlist in the Israeli Army in protest over the war of destruction in Gaza and the ongoing occupation of Palestinian lands. The two will arrive this week at Tel-Hashomer…

Will Trump End or Escalate Biden’s Wars?

When Donald Trump takes office on January 20th, all his campaign promises to end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours and almost as quickly end Israel’s war on its neighbors will be put to the test. The choices he…

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