Diplomacy Offers the Only Humane Path Forward in Gaza, Ukraine

 

by Byron Edelman 

Posted onDecember 21, 2023

The streets of Gaza are awash with blood. Gaza’s residents furnish the blood, but we – the American taxpayers – furnish the bombs which are spilling this blood. 20,000 lives worth of blood thus far.

When we watch war on television, we see the rockets take off, but rarely does Western media cover what happens when those rockets land. Ostensibly, it’s to protect us from images which might disturb us, but truth be told, we need to be disturbed by war.

Of those who’ve died thus far in Gaza since Israel began its bombing campaign on Oct. 7, at least 8,000 of the dead have been children, making Gaza, as UNICEF puts it, “the most dangerous place in the world to be a child.” Even more dangerous than Ukraine, where, during nearly two years of fighting, around 600 children have been killed. Still 600 too many, I say.

To end the bloodshed in both of these wars – in Gaza, and in Ukraine – let us agree that whatever the differences between the fighting parties, there are no military solutions. There never are.

We need a permanent ceasefire and peace negotiations. In Gaza, and Ukraine.

Give peace a chance.

Byron Edelman is an anti-war activist in Washington state.

https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2023/12/21/diplomacy-offers-the-only-humane-path-forward-in-gaza-ukraine/