2 Peace photos from the 2024 Merry Monarch parade

April 3, 2024   Likely widening Middle East War?

Is Israel’s Bibi Netanyahu moving toward “The Sampson Option” – the use of nuclear weapons (and possible WW III) as a desperate attempt to avoid removal as Israel’s head of state and imprisonment for corruption?  The protests against him inside Israel are growing.

On the same day that Israel carried out a deadly attack on an Iranian consulate in Damascus, Syria killing several senior Iranian officials, it also killed 7 World Central Kitchen foreign aid workers in targeted vehicle strikes in the Gaza strip.  Israel has also carried out recent strikes in Lebanon.

Intelligence reports now say that Iran will be responding with major strikes on Israel within 48 hours.

All of this is on top of Israel’s mass devastation in Gaza, killing and wounding more than 100,000 people in six months, including large numbers of women and children,  The vast majority of homes, schools, and hospitals have all been destroyed.  A large portion of the Gaza population is now on the brink of starvation.

Despite all of this, US President Joe Biden has said the US won’t stop sending Israel more missiles, bombs, and warplanes.  In short, the US is directly complicit in the GENOCIDE being carried out in Gaza.  It is shameful and criminal.  The world is demanding an immediate and permanent CEASEFIRE now.  Also an end to all military aid to Israel.  More killing, and an expanding war, are not the path to peace, nor the way to free hostages and prisoners.

Genuine peace, built on a foundation of justice, will be a victory for all.  It is time we all stand up, speak out, and act nonviolently to stop this madness.

Jim