Middle East: Actions, Analysis & News

Tweet the Media: Do your job. Report Israel continues its genocide.
Protect student activists against deportation and attack.
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Phone and email Congress:
* Demand a permanent ceasefire NOW!
* Full food and medical aid to all NOW!
* End all military and weapons aid NOW!
* More actions and events

See StephenZunes.org for latest Israel/Palestine and Iran Articles, Interviews, Analysis and Background

Stories from Palestine Webinar: Community Peacemaker Teams

WagingNonviolence: 200 pieces on Gaza, Key insights to end oppression in Palestine-Israel & Nonmilitary alternatives to Israel’s war

Netanyahu is prolonging the Gaza war for his political survival, President Biden confirmed to Time magazine last June, while continuing to send billions in weapons aid!

Reuters: Gaza Death Toll’s likely hundreds of thousands from Israel’s occupation and genocidal war since Oct. 7, 2023, several times the official reported number. Also see Palestine Datasets: “the official numbers we publish here, and that nearly every media outlet and government have trusted, are restricted to: only those deaths that can be identified, and linked back to an act of Israeli aggression” — and  the Lancet, British medical journal February 8, 2025: “Against a history of protracted occupation,¹ an unprecedented escalation in Israeli State violence occurred throughout Palestine in the wake of violent attacks in Israel on Oct 7, 2023.² Concerning violence throughout Gaza, mortality statistics subsequently reported by the Palestinian Ministry of Health (MOH) have been repeatedly questioned by prominent Israeli and US politicians and right-wing think tanks,^3–7  A failure to acknowledge more fully the impact of direct violence in Gaza by the Israeli military, as sanctioned by the State of Israel, has arguably delayed meaningful global efforts to prevent further death and destruction; this situation, in our opinion, has been to the dereliction of our collective responsibility to prevent what we believe to be genocide.¹¹“

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There have been five wars fought between Israel and its neighbors in the last fifteen years. Over that time, and before, there have been thousands of diplomats from around the world working on a variety of plans to bring peace and stability to the region, and hundreds of conferences. They have all failed.

As Israeli journalist Haggai Matar acknowledged on October 7:
“The dread that Israelis are feeling is a sliver of what Palestinians have felt daily under the decades-long military regime in the West Bank, and siege and repeated assaults on Gaza.”

The Nakba75: Roots of Israeli Apartheid Series

1. Downward spiral: Settlers and state violence
2. Palestine and the carve-up of the Middle East
3. The origins of Zionism and the Balfour Declaration
4. Palestinian resistance to Mandate rule
5. What is settler colonialism?
6. Al-Nakba: The ethnic cleansing of Palestine
7. Israel: Watchdog for US imperialism
8. Palestine: the key to freedom in the Middle East rests with the Arab working class
9. Palestine and international solidarity

* See Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (2007).
In the chaos following wars, natural disasters and economic panics, military and corporate neo-liberals aggressively try to push privatization, deregulation and cuts to social services as part of a “Shock Doctrine.” This is a critical time to resist these disaster capitalists and defend our human, environmental and economic rights and resources. Remember after 9/11 when President Bush seized the opportunity of national grief and fear to call for an all-out assault on Afghanistan? The bombardment of Iraq was soon to follow.

“An eye for an eye only makes the whole world blind.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“If your enemy is hungry, give him bread [if] thirsty… water.” – Proverbs 25:21
   “Then Jesus said, ‘Put your sword back into its place. For all who
take the sword will perish by the sword.'” – Matthew 26:52S