Tens of thousands marched against Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and many hundreds of protesters have been killed by his thugs.
But it would be incredibly stupid to believe that American bombs offer a solution.
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History repeatedly teaches us this lesson: external powers that topple governments through military force rarely produce the outcomes they promise. More often, populations rally behind nationalist forces, even authoritarian ones, when faced with foreign invasion.
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“Never again” I was taught, as I absorbed the horrors of the Holocaust and the hideous fascist ideologies of Hitler and Mussolini.
“Never again” is becoming “Oh yes, once again: but who cares?”
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Dear Prime Minister
We want you to succeed. We NEED you to succeed, both as Labour prime minister, and as a rebuke to 14 years of Tory incompetence and sleaze. For that to happen, we need a few policies and A FEW RISKS that show real change, while respecting principles that show moral standing and rectitude.
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Some Israelis focus on their national tradition of freeing hostages. Israel’s leaders focus on killing Palestinians – offering the ridiculous argument that this may destroy Hamas and make Israel safer.
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IS IT POSSIBLE THAT ISRAELI GENOCIDE IN GAZA WAS THE ORIGINAL BIBI-IDF PLAN?
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Israel’s defense minister - a man called Israel Katz - outlined plans in early July to create a concentration camp into which he intends to herd two million Palestinian citizens of Gaza …. The ones whom the Israeli army have not yet killed.
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A different leader would have saved the hostages, negotiating without bombs in favor of peace. Instead, Netanyahu has opted for destruction and genocide: and I agree with the governments of South Africa, Brazil, and others that genocide is what Israel is perpetrating in Gaza.
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The war-mongering, and profit and revenge-driven calls for Russia to be defeated, are based on the mistaken assumption that the theater of war—including nuclear war—can be limited. This was not, however, the case in either the First or Second World Wars.
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The evidence suggests that inside the Israeli State Apparatus, there are people who wish to destroy Gaza and use famine as one weapon of war. The killing of aid workers is a deliberate policy of these people, aiming to disrupt the flow of aid.
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Netanyahu has lost the support of most of the world.
Now we are all witness to his IDF drones bombing aid workers, killing the dedicated volunteers devoted to alleviating the famine Netanyahu has created in Gaza. These aid workers could have been my friends or members of my family.
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Genocide is genocide, whoever commits it.
We were horrified by the deaths of 1200 Israelis on October 7th, and we cannot be anything other than horrified by the deaths of >30,000 Gaza citizens at the hands of Israel.
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While the Hamas attack against Israel in October 2023 was appalling, brutal, savage, and unacceptable, the Netanyahu response has been worse. Hamas created a criminal, disgusting massacre. Netanyahu created war.
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A sustainable peace needs to be rooted in the particular community itself. Each conflict and each peace process is different and specific to the people involved. Unarmed civilian protection draws on the peace infrastructure that exists within all communities.
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How can I stay silent when American bombs, dropped by Israeli planes, are flattening the city of Gaza and killing Palestinian children? Of course, the October 7th attack by Hamas on civilians dancing, or living in their houses, was horrendous. But the Jewish law “an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth” produces nothing but a world filled with blind and toothless people, all hating one another.
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War is never a win: both sides always lose.
Associated Press (AP) reported May 17th that Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy have agreed to separate meetings with a delegation of leaders from six African countries to discuss a possible plan to end the war in Ukraine, South Africa’s president said Tuesday.
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Keeping the peace is not what turns on military leaders. American generals have new weapons they are longing to try out on the battlefield. You should not be giving these people a platform, Mr Kristof. You should be talking to the Peace Makers, and providing a platform to people who seek to end the war.
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To get the best deal possible and transform NATO’s military withdrawal into a peaceful Afghanistan, President Biden, Secretary of State Blinken and Ambassador Khalilzad will need to persuade Russia and Pakistan to give practical support to their withdrawal agreement, while obtaining the tacit agreement (or neutrality) of China, India and Iran. President Ashraf Ghani is a nice fellow, but he is not part of the solution.
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I hope that you will commit yourself to being a President for Peace. Many defects in America’s foreign policy come from the reality that since 2001, the Pentagon has dominated American foreign policy. Successive Secretaries of State, starting with Colin Powell, have been sidelined.
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Robert Fisk, who has died at the age of 74, was one of his generation’s best-known foreign correspondents, admired for his indomitable courage and inimitable writing skills, but sometimes criticized for a lack of objectivity and exaggeration in his reports. His reputation rested primarily on his frontline coverage of wars and civil conflict in the Middle East and Islamic world.
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