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December 2008

Israeli Airstrikes Increase Cycle of Violence

Posted on: Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Keywords: Palestine, Israel, Peace Building, Middle East, Emergency Relief, Gaza

MADRE condemns the latest Israeli airstrikes in Gaza and the on-going Hamas rocket-fire into Israel.  MADRE calls for a halt to all violence against civilians.  Both the Hamas rocket attacks and the Israeli airstrikes violate international law and further undermine...

Palestine's Guernica and the Myths of Israeli Victimhood

Posted on: Monday, December 29, 2008

Keywords: Palestine, Israel, Peace Building, Middle East, Gaza

Mustafa Barghouthi, founder of MADRE’s sister organization Palestinian Medical Relief Society (PMRS) and current Secretary General of the Palestinian National Initiative, wrote a piece about the situation in Gaza published in the Huffington Post on December 29, 2008. Palestine's Guernica and...

Ending Climate Change and Other Frivolous Pursuits

Posted on: Friday, December 12, 2008

Keywords: Environmental Justice, Climate Change

The refrain coming from world leaders at this year’s climate change negotiations, which wrapped up today in Poznan, Poland, is essentially this: “Don’t expect us to do much on climate when we’re facing a global recession.”  While not everybody expresses...

From Mumbai to Washington: Now is the Time to Renounce the War on Terror

Posted on: Thursday, December 4, 2008

Keywords: Peace Building, India

Right now, while the horror of the attacks in Mumbai is reverberating around the world and tensions between India and Pakistan are mounting, there is a crucial move that President-elect Obama could make to chart a positive course...

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