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The military will not solve a single problem by Juergen Scheffran and Willi van Ooyen
Your post can be found athttps://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/11/13/18860342.php International Anti-War The military will not solve a single problem by Juergen Scheffran and Willi van Ooyen Mon, Nov 13, 2023 11:27AM Solidarity could also be understood & implemented differently: as a concept that reduces violence and aims at protecting human lives in concrete terms. This includes not only…
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A total mockery of international law by Norman Pesch
Article 51 of the UN Charter clearly states that whoever is attacked militarily has such a right of defense. This is true in this case as well: Israel can defend itself against Hamas’ attack, but this comes with the caveat that such defense must always be proportionate. “A total mockery of international law”https://la.indymedia.org/news/2023/10/301788.php War on…
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“A total mockery of international law” by Norman Pesch
“A total mockery of international law”War on GazaOn the right to self-defense, war crimes in the Gaza war, and the role of the FRG. An interview with Norman Paech[This interview posted on 10/17/2023 is translated from the German on the Internet, https://www.jungewelt.de/artikel/461212.krieg-gegen-gaza-eine-totale-verh%C3%B6hnung-des-v%C3%B6lkerrechts.html.] Result of airstrikes: devastating destruction in the Gaza Strip (Jabaliya, Oct. 11, 2023).…
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On Peace and Security by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 1934
There is no way to peace on the way to security. For peace must be ventured, is the one great venture, and can never, ever be secured. Peace is the opposite of security. To demand security is to have mistrust, and this mistrust in turn gives birth to war. Seeking security means wanting to protect…
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How can we regain peace and how can we keep it? by Eugen Drewermann
by Eugen Drewermann https://www.pressenza.com/2022/12/eugen-drewermann-how-can-we-regain-peace-and-how-can-we-keep-it/.] In a word: what we call war, what we call military, is the undermining of everything that means culture. Erich-Maria Remarque was able to describe exactly that, 12 years after the so-called First World War in his book “Nothing New in the West.” If that – by which he meant artillery…
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On Peace and Security by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
There is no way to peace on the way to security. For peace must be ventured, is the one great venture, and can never, ever be secured. Peace is the opposite of security. To demand security is to have mistrust, and this mistrust in turn gives birth to war. Seeking security means wanting to protect…