Israel Palestine conflict

We are living in what feels like a full-action reality show, jumping from conflict to conflict. News coverage is 24/7, with crises from Iraq to Ukraine and now Israel and Palestine. Some media are already working on the next conflict…

These are moments of deep reflection, in the face of what’s happening in Israel and in the world. I feel a profound sadness for what I perceive as a clearly misguided direction in how events are unfolding and how difficulties…

Given the harrowing war waged by Israel on the Palestinian people in Gaza, and the indiscriminate Israeli massacres that accompany it, a group of artists, authors, and academics from various Arab countries, have addressed a letter to the intellectuals of…

On October 27, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution entitled ” Protection of civilians and upholding legal and  humanitarian obligations .  ” In it, an immediate humanitarian truce is called for in the hostilities in Gaza, it is…

On the night of the October 7, 2023 attack in Southern Israel, I was staying overnight at my nephew’s place in Saint Petersburg, in the apartment I had grown up in, prior to emigrating from the Soviet Union over fifty…

Wave upon wave of Israeli aircraft and missiles have been battering the Palestinian population in the Gaza Strip. This violence — the most brutal for decades — has already expended more firepower than the nuclear bomb on Hiroshima and has…

On Sunday, October 29, 2023 (9:00pm Jerusalem | 3:00pm New York) the Combatants for Peace and American Friends of Combatants for Peace community gathered for “Solidarity: A Path to Liberation”. This conversation was led by two Palestinian activists, Rana Salman…

There is only one option for Israel to live in peace and at the same time set an example for other countries around the world: It is to understand that there can only be peace when the same is offered…

Following the vote in the UN General Assembly yesterday and the intensification of the bombing of Gaza, the Co-Presidents of the medical peace organisation IPPNW, Dr. Carlos Umana, Dr. Kati Juva and David Onazi, have written to António Guterres. In…

The spirit of the times is clouded by hatred and violence like it hasn’t been in a long time. The fragmentation of society, polarization, and a growing anger seeking an outlet is increasingly evident with each new or re-emerging conflict.…