Wishing for ceasefires in the new year.
I will be posting intermittently over the next week.
We are off to Brooklyn to celebrate the holidays with family and friends.
I want to thank all those who have signed up in 2023 for a subscription to this site.
It is satisfying to me that while my opposition to Israel’s war on Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank has caused a few readers to unsubscribe, those who are unhappy with me are outnumbered by those who have joined this little community over the past two months.
Perhaps the new year will bring some peace to this war weary world.
Perhaps we can work together for a ceasefire in both Gaza and Ukraine.
In Gaza the death toll is staggering.
That’s true in Ukraine as well where a consensus is emerging that the war has entered a period of stalemate.
The U.S. must be pushed to end its role as a military enabler of the killing in both of these wars.
Since the very beginning of the war in Ukraine I have argued for peace talks and negotiations. The idea that war can resolve anything in Ukraine is, in the words of The Nation this week, “magical thinking.”
This view has not always been well received, even by friends on the Left.