Peace and Disarmament

When I saw the images of smoke billowing from buildings after Israel’s heavy shelling and the destruction of some Kibbutz along the line separating Israel from the Gaza Strip, I knew from the start that both sides seek to destroy…

Letter to AARP by Mike Ferner, Interim Director of Veterans For Peace, first published by World Beyond War Letter to the AARP: A friend forwarded to me a notice of your event planned for November 11, described in this poster.…

Brazilian Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira chairs a meeting of the UN Security Council today in New York, USA, to discuss the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Vieira, who concluded his working visit to Cambodia, postponed his visit to the Philippines and travelled to…

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…