Peace

Carolyn Eisenberg, a history professor in Brooklyn, N.Y., grew up in what she describes as a Zionist family, with “a great deal of affection for Israel.” Last week, as co-chair of Brooklyn Parents for Peace, she was organizing an Aug. 9 “Brooklyn Walk for Peace,” calling for an immediate cease-fire by all sides in the Israel-Lebanon-Gaza crisis. An alert issued by the organization said, “Enough! War is not the answer!”

TEL AVIV, Israel — The biggest Israeli demonstration against the war to date took place here Aug. 5 in the heart of the city’s downtown, an area that is considered especially right-wing.

BOSTON — Opponents of a proposed bioterrorism research laboratory at Boston University Medical Center won a victory last week when a state judge ruled that the basis used to approve the so-called Biolab was “arbitrary and capricious.”

A solo días después de que una bomba israelí cayo sobre un edificio residencial en la aldea libanesa del sur, Qana, matando a 62 civiles, entre estos 35 niños – provocando horror mundial – el gobierno israelí bruscamente rechazó llamadas mundiales en favor de un cese de fuego inmediato.

UNITED NATIONS — A horrific July 30 attack by the Israel Defense Forces on the southern Lebanese village of Qana, combined with ongoing violence that had already claimed hundreds of lives, has prompted outrage at the highest levels of the UN’s leadership.

This year, on the 61st anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the stakes are higher than ever in the struggle to eliminate a destructive power that could end life as we know it.

Key congressional Democratic leaders have called on President Bush to begin pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq by the end of this year.

Only days after an Israeli bomb smashed into a residential building in the southern Lebanon village of Qana, killing at least 62 civilians, 35 of them children — and provoking worldwide shock, horror and outrage — the Israeli government brusquely rejected worldwide calls for an immediate cease-fire.

His body riddled with shrapnel, Wissam Abdullah, 14, spoke from his hospital bed in the southern Lebanese port city of Sidon. Wissam is one of the few survivors of an Israeli bombing attack that killed most of his extended family as they fled the Lebanese border village of Marwaheen July 15.

Con su cuerpo acribillado por metralla, el muchacho de 14 años Wissam Abdula, habló desde el hospital en la ciudad portuaria Sidón, al sur de Líbano. Wissam es uno de los pocos que sobrevivió un ataque aéreo israelí que mató a casi toda su familiares mientras estos huían de la aldea fronteriza libanesa Marwaheen el 15 de julio.