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A Framework for Peace in Israel and Palestine

by Jeffrey D. Sachs,* USA

(7 December 2023) It is urgent to free the hostages in Gaza; stop the bloodshed in Israel and Palestine; establish lasting security for both the Israeli and Palestinian peoples; achieve the aspiration of the Palestinian people for a sovereign state; and establish a process of true sustainable development in the “Eastern Mediterranean – Middle East” (EMME) region. This can be set in motion by immediately welcoming Palestine as a UN member state.

How the chance was lost for a Peace settlement of the Ukraine war

The West wanted to continue the war instead

A detailed reconstruction by General (ret.) Harald Kujat* and Professor Hajo Funke**

Preliminary remark

by Michael von der Schulenburg***

This is a detailed reconstruction of the Ukrainian-Russian peace negotiations in March 2022 and the associated mediation attempts by the then Israeli Prime Minister, Naftali Bennett, supported by President Erdogan and former German Chancellor Schröder.

It was drawn up by retired General H. Kujat and Professor Emeritus H. Funke, two of the initiators of the recently presented peace plan for Ukraine. And it is also in connection with their peace plan that this reconstruction is so extremely important.

US embarks on proxy war against Iran

by M. K. Bhadrakumar,* India

(30 November 2023) A massive US naval deployment in a wide arc of the so-called Greater Middle East is under way – stretching from Crete in the Eastern Mediterranean, into the Red Sea and the Bab el Mandeb and into the Gulf of Aden and all the way into the Gulf of Oman. This deterrent display may transform as large scale offensive operations and aims to rework the geopolitical alignments and bring them back to the traditional grooves of intra-regional rivalries in the Gulf region.
On Swiss neutrality

The new wars and neutrality

by Guy Mettan,* Geneva

(30 November 2023) Neutrality has always been a source of debate in Switzerland, and that’s a good thing. Two centuries after it was formalised by the Congress of Vienna, neutrality served us well during the two world wars and the Cold War. In the last three decades, which have been characterised by US hegemony, it has simply no longer served us, as Switzerland has adopted American views without any problems, as there was no alternative.
Middle East

Why Israel wants to erase the context in the war on Gaza

The dehistoricisation of what is happening helps Israel pursue genocidal policies in Gaza

by Ilan Pappe,* Israel/England

(23 November 2023) On October 24, a statement by United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres caused a sharp reaction by Israel. While addressing the UN Security Council, the UN chief said1 that while he condemned in the strongest terms the massacre committed by Hamas on October 7, he wished to remind the world that it did not take place in a vacuum. He explained that one cannot dissociate 56 years of occupation from our engagement with the tragedy that unfolded on that day.

The price of climate alarmism

“Climate fear” is not the way to a better world

by Michael Klein,* Germany

(23 November 2023) Many activists and politicians believe they have to scare people in order to stop global warming. This has massive mental consequences, especially for the younger generation.