Category: Palestine

  By Kenneth J. Theisen   On April 2nd Amnesty International announced that a massive consignment of U.S.-supplied munitions was delivered to Israel on March 22nd. Amnesty stated that a German ship, chartered…

By Kenneth J. Theisen   On Wednesday, March 25th Human Rights Watch (HRW) issued a 71-page report that provides eye witness accounts of the devastating effects that white phosphorus munitions had on…

Note – the following poem was submitted to World Can’t Wait comments, by Rick the poet Three small bodies in Gaza. Lined on linen in a row. Like triplets, all the same….

By Conn Hallinan Erik Fosse, a Norwegian cardiologist, worked in Gaza hospitals during the recent war. "It was as if they had stepped on a mine," he says of certain Palestinian patients…

by Larry Everest On January 17, the hail of U.S.-Israeli bombs and missiles, tank shells and bullets that savaged Gaza and its people for 22 days stopped and, at least for now,…

  by Chris Hedges The assault on Gaza exposed not only Israel’s callous disregard for international law but the gutlessness of the American press. There were no major newspapers, television networks or…

  By Michael Ratner   On the celebration of King’s birth I often read or listen to the anti-war speech that he gave at Riverside Church on April 4, 1967—A Time to…

By Caoimhe Butterly   The morgues of  Gaza ‘s hospitals are over-flowing. The bodies in their blood-soaked white shrouds cover the entire floor space of the Shifa hospital morgue. Some are intact,…

  By Malcolm Shore   Several hundred people packed a New York City auditorium Tuesday night for an emergency town hall meeting about Israel’s assault on Gaza. The event — entitled “A Call…

By Chris Hedges World Can’t Wait helped produce a town meeting last night, sponsored by Revolution Books in New York City. Chris Hedges gave the main address.   The incursion and bombardment…