WHAT IS SECURITY, WHOSE IS IT & WHO DECIDES?
I would like to use Israel as an example of a nation engaged in ongoing military conflict – with not only the Palestinian people, but its neighbours on all sides, ever since its inception, with the primary justification being the need for Israeli “security”. My focus will […]
Letters to the Editor
Peace Magazine
Alon Ben-Meir continues his futile attempts to reduce the ongoing Israeli settler-colonial enterprise against the Palestinians as a mutual problem solvable by principled negotiation. That’s not the reality. A point of clarification: Palestinians had nothing to do with the Nazi Holocaust against the Jews. Jewish Israelis on the other hand are […]
Dear Editor:
Re: Israelis and Palestinians: Architects of their Own Destruction
As a Peace Magazine subscriber for over 30 years, a retired professional in conflict analysis with a law background, once again I find myself reading Professor Alon Ben-Meir attempting to normalize Israel’s settler-colonial project in Israel-Palestine. His hasbara ought to have no place in Peace Magazine. […]
The Advocate
Dear Editor:
Re: A Short History of the Geneva Conventions
I read with interest the two part series by David Roberts, Q.C. on the rationale, the lobbying, and the development of the Four Geneva Conventions, the establishment of the Red Cross and the gradual development of international law relating to warfare. He carefully detailed the exhaustive […]