We Need an Immediate Ceasefire in Gaza
BY PHYLLIS BENNIS
Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair
The violence in the Middle East is bringing horrifying new levels of human suffering to both Israelis and Palestinians. We need an immediate ceasefire right now.
Both sides have committed heinous violations of international law. But if we’re serious about preventing such horrors in the future, we have to go beyond condemnation.
A lesson we ignore at our peril is that oppression undermines not only the rights, dignity, and lives of the oppressed but eventually the security of the oppressors as well. The apartheid system that’s been suffocating Palestinians for so long is now also undermining the safety of Israeli civilians.
Since 2007, Gazans have lived under siege, prohibited from leaving their open-air prison by a hig...









