Emergency rally in Spokane on June 15 to protest Israeli attacks on Gaza. Local groups call for ceasefire, accuse Biden of enabling genocide by continuing U.S. military aid to Israel despite UN investigations into human rights violations against Palestinians.
But can poetry be heard over the sounds of war — the bombs, the sirens, the screams? Palestine needs the stillness of a cease-fire. More, it needs a cease to violence that only a nonviolent movement might help create.
Hundreds of Gonzaga students gathered on Thursday to call for a statement from university officials, urging a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war and condemning violence of the Israeli government against civilians in Gaza.
Amid all this chaos, misery and death in the current war in the Middle East, we forget that we are all believers and followers of the Abrahamic faith, worshipping the same one God.