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Chronology of the main events leading to Hamas’s emergence as Israel’s implacable foe by the end of the 1990s.

In a terrible historical irony, Israel has been caught and is paying the price for holding the European colonial bag.

By Richard Falk Richard Falk is Albert G. Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princetown University former UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Palestine, and current Co-Convener of SHAPE (Save Humanity and Planet Earth.) He delivered a deep and cutting edge history and analysis in CPDCS’ January 10, 2024 webinar Gaza War, Short … Read more

We must join the majority of the world’s nations in building pressure on Biden and Netanyahu to declare a ceasefire, to deluge Gaza with the food, water, medicines, and fuel essential for life. We must do this with everything we’ve got and we must do it now. The genocide must end. We must not sleepwalk … Read more

Friends, While there is opportunity as well as danger in a crisis, the Gaza War is setting back possibilities for the development of mutual respect and peace between the Israelis and Palestinians for many years. The pain of mass murder, for that is what war is, has and will devastate both peoples for years to … Read more

Dear Editor In his Sept. 10 Ideas piece, “Too often, military defense comes off as offense,” Stephen Kinzer warns that the United States and China are locked in an increasingly dangerous and confrontational arms race, creating a “security dilemma.” It is, as political scientist Graham Allison has warned of a “Thucydides Trap,” the inevitable tensions between rising and declining … Read more

The summit’s much ballyhooed commitment to nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation serves more to manufacture consent for preparations for nuclear war than to reduce nuclear dangers. Meeting in a summit at Camp David on August 18, President Joe Biden, President Yoon Suk Yeol of South Korea, and Prime Minister Fumio Kishida of Japan posed for photos that … Read more

An article by Joseph Gerson on increasing military tensions across the Taiwan Strait and in the South China/West Philippine Sea.

Joseph Gerson’s article UKRAINE, THE DEEPENING EURO-ATLANTIC CRISIS, AND COMMON SECURITY POSSIBILITIES has been highly praised for its description the growing Ukrainian and US/NATO-Russian dangers while pointing Common Security paths to peace and a new Euro-Atlantic security architecture. The Ukraine War is about far more than Ukraine. It’s not simply a criminal Russian war of … Read more