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Phyllis Bennis

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Stopping the Dance of Death: Building a 21st Century Anti-War Movement

Foreign policy analysts Phyllis Bennis, Jackson Lears, and Jeffrey Sachs discuss how to win a cease-fire in Gaza, prevent a nuclear war, and shift...

10.04.2024 3

Common Dreams

Phyllis Bennis

UN Security Council's Gaza Cease-Fire Resolution Is Not Enough—But It's a Start

Despite weaknesses and false U.S. claims that the resolution is nonbinding, it demands an end to the bombing and a massive influx of humanitarian aid....

26.03.2024 3

Common Dreams

Phyllis Bennis

Killing Palestinians by Blocking Aid. Killing Palestinians by Airdropping Aid.

The airdrops are not designed to save lives, but to salvage the consciences of those who could—and should—be doing so much more.

14.03.2024 4

Common Dreams

Phyllis Bennis

US Aid Withdrawal Is Starving Gaza. It Must Be Restored.

Earlier this year, the International Court of Justice ruled that Israel’s actions in Gaza plausibly constitute genocide. The world’s most...

03.03.2024 6

Truthout

Phyllis Bennis

Defunding UNRWA While Arming Israel Makes the US Complicit in Genocide

Thousands of Palestinians—especially babies, children, pregnant women, and the elderly—will die as a result of these cuts.

29.02.2024 10

Common Dreams

Phyllis Bennis

Gazans Are Starving: Don’t Cut Aid Now – OpEd

Earlier this year, the International Court of Justice ruled that Israel’s actions in Gaza plausibly constitute genocide. The world’s most...

29.02.2024 100

Eurasia Review

Phyllis Bennis

The Biden Administration Joins Israel’s War on the UNRWA

28.02.2024 3

The Nation

Phyllis Bennis

ICJ Ruling on Genocide Presents 'Political Dilemma' for Biden

It’s a tool in the campaigns for cease-fire now underway around the world. But will the President of the United States pick it up?

27.01.2024 10

Common Dreams

Phyllis Bennis

UN Security Council Caves to US Pressure to Prevent a Gaza Cease-Fire

Until Tel Aviv decides what steps it might want to take, if it wants to create conditions for a cease-fire at all, the resolution means that the...

24.12.2023 9

Common Dreams

Phyllis Bennis

All the Reasons Israelis and Palestinians Need a Cease-Fire in Gaza—Now!

Washington—and the Biden administration in particular—is increasingly seen as enabling, funding, and arming an Israeli assault shaped by...

19.12.2023 4

Common Dreams

Phyllis Bennis

In Gaza, We Need a Cease-Fire Right This Minute

If we’re serious about preventing violence, we need to change the conditions from which this brutality sprang. Sending more bombs, warplanes, guns...

19.10.2023 4

Common Dreams

Phyllis Bennis

We Need An Immediate Ceasefire In Gaza – OpEd

The violence in the Middle East is bringing horrifying new levels of human suffering to both Israelis and Palestinians. We need an immediate ceasefire...

19.10.2023 20

Eurasia Review

Phyllis Bennis

The Answer to Hamas' Brutality Is Not to Eviscerate Innocent Palestinians

Both sides have committed heinous violations of international law, and all attacks on civilians must be condemned. But if we’re serious about...

13.10.2023 3

Common Dreams

Phyllis Bennis

As Israel and Gaza Erupt, the US Must Commit to Ending the Violence — All the Violence

'Right now, we need U.S. support for the UN as it calls for an immediate ceasefire'

08.10.2023 4

Common Dreams

Phyllis Bennis

Beware the Anti-China Sentiment Pushing Us Towards Another Cold War

If the United States can’t learn to cooperate with China, our future will be one of constant escalation of wars and threats of wars and all that...

16.09.2023 5

Common Dreams

Phyllis Bennis

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