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No One Owns the Future

Condemning “war crimes” is nothing more than a shrug.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Even the international condemnation of the Israeli devastation of Gaza often feels tepid.

Noting that a total of 196 aid workers have so far been killed in Gaza’s six months of bombardment and starvation, Guterres said: “This is unconscionable. But it is an inevitable result of the way the war is being conducted.”

A One-State Solution Could Transform the World

This is the language of peace. It transcends the small-mindedness of global politics.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Probably fewer ideas are treated with more contempt in today’s world than... ahem: a one-state solution for Palestine and Israel, with, good God, every resident equally valued, equally free.

“Snort! No one wants this! It’s not possible — it’s not true!”

A Message to U.S Secretary of State Anthony Blinken about Hypocrisy

"Israel's values contradict your own."

(LOS ANGELES, Calif.) - When it comes to Israel, you support a country that does not separate religion from government, treats Jews as a chosen people, segregates Jews from Palestinians, lacks a constitution, and does not treat Israelis and Palestinians equally.

Biden`s Choices

Unwillingness to use US leverage undercuts Biden’s entire Middle East policy.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - In the Middle East today, Joe Biden’s choice is between wholeheartedly supporting Israel and doing all he can to protect the innocents in Gaza.

He’s trying to do both, but he is not satisfying advocates of either policy.

A Crisis in the Palestinian Authority

The PA no longer seems relevant to what is happening in Israel.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Israel and Hamas are at war, with many deaths on both sides being reported. Meantime, another crisis is brewing, within the Palestinian Authority (PA).

Mahmoud Abbas, president of the PA since 2004, was widely condemned around the world in September for making antisemitic comments about the Holocaust in a televised speech to his party last month.

The Root of Violence Is Oppression.

Inevitably, oppressed people everywhere will seek — and gain — their freedom.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Following 16 years of Israeli military blockade, Palestinian fighters from Gaza launched an unprecedented assault, in which hundreds of Israelis were killed and wounded, and civilians kidnapped.

The Israeli government may have just declared war, but its war on Palestinians started over 75 years ago.

Jenin, Israel, America

Jenin refugee camp is one of more than 50 created by the UN for Palestinians in the aftermath of the Nakba (1948).

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - This year’s celebrations of American independence straddled Israel’s most intense airstrikes on Palestinians in nearly two decades.

About 50 miles north of Bethlehem and three miles from the Israel border, Jenin is hilly and rural.

The Coup in Israel

Netanyahu's actions promise an end to Israel’s democratic experiment

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Israel has always been touted as America’s most reliable friend in the Middle East, a bastion of democracy in a region dominated by autocracies.

Now that picture is fraying as the far-right coalition of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu takes power.

Israel Must Quit Palestinian Territory Immediately

Every day the occupation continues is a breach of international law.

(LONDON, UK) - Implanting settlers is a violation of occupation law by Israel and a War Crime on the part of the individuals involved.

Ending these violations involves immediate removal of the settlers and the settlements from occupied land and an immediate end to Israel’s exercise of control, including its use of military force, over those areas of the West Bank.

The Israeli-Palestinian Two-State Solution Delusion

Israel is continually squeezing the Palestinians from their own lands.

(SAN FRANCISCO, CA.) - The conventional wisdom in the White House and in Congress is that it would be political suicide to threaten to cutoff foreign aid, military aid or loan guarantees to force Israel into meaningful peace negotiations.

The prospect for peace in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the next several years is slim to none.