Peace and Disarmament

From New York, Palestinian-American professor Rashid Khalidi, author of the book “Palestine, One Hundred Years of Colonialism and Resistance”, analyses how this weekend’s extreme violence between Hamas and Israel will lead to “a paradigm shift”. Colonial powers will no longer…

The barbarity of death and pain of civilians The murders of civilians at the hands of armed forces, of state-of-the-art combat specialists, with their high firepower created in the military-industrial complex, are shamelessly broadcast live by the press networks of…

I walk through streets with few people, it’s four o’clock in the afternoon and very hot, but the intense humidity weighs most heavily. Suddenly there are alarms about a missile attack. I continue walking quietly, but I see people running…

For at least twenty years, the majority of the world’s population has lived in a state of growing anxiety in the face of the obvious inability of world leaders to agree on the immediate adoption of radical, although well-known and…

Thousands of kilometers away, bombs and shrapnel fall. Missiles criss-cross the air, weaving webs of smoke and death. In the streets, the stones of destroyed buildings are stained with the blood of hundreds of people. News reports exacerbate the massacres…

When a war breaks out it is as if a conversation, a journey were interrupted. At Rondine it is the discourse that addresses the conflict, it is the path that looks towards peace. In these tragic days in which war,…

Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME) is calling on Israel and its allies to define their end goal, amid renewed violence between Hamas and Israel. Calls for a ceasefire from CJPME and the UN Secretary-General have…

Through the international news agency for peace and nonviolence Pressenza, we have been covering for years: the mass attacks, violence and blockade of the Gaza Strip, the settlements and violence in the West Bank – by the Israeli governments, the…

As pacifists and nonviolent people, we would have liked to go to the Palestinian embassy these days to protest, but we couldn’t because there is no Palestinian embassy to protest in front of. And this should make us reflect on…

Hamas militiamen attacked civilian and military targets in Israeli territory last Saturday, killing hundreds of people and causing panic among the population. The Israeli government’s answer has been swift, including the bombing of defenceless towns, causing hundreds of civilian casualties…