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Sinwar is Dead

Oct 18, 2024 | Marianne Williamson

Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar has been killed by Israeli forces in Southern Gaza. This will change things, to be sure…but exactly how it will change things is anyone’s guess.

Democratic Senator Chris Coons, member of the U.S. Foreign Relations committee, called Sinwar a “blood thirsty terrorist … who had blood on his hands.” GOP Speaker of the House Mike Johnson said, “Sinwar’s life was the embodiment of evil and marked by hatred for all that is good in the world.”

Israel and Palestine: The Tragedy of Unprocessed Trauma | Opinion

May 24, 2021 | Marianne Williamson

In the words of Arundhati Roy, “Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day we can hear her breathing.” Our faith that another world is possible is our most powerful tool for enduring and transforming the times in which we live.

DEBACLE

October 8, 2023 | Marianne Williamson

Saturday morning I awoke to a text from a friend: “War in Israel.

More texts…TV…checking websites…talking to experts…checking in with friends, as layers of horror unfolded before our eyes. By the end of the day the full extent of the catastrophe was clearer. There will indeed now be a long and difficult and evil war.

ISRAEL AND HAMAS: AN EYE FOR AN EYE LEAVES EVERYONE DEAD

October 13, 2023 | Marianne Williamson

An event happened a week ago that has changed the calculus of foreign affairs. The situation in Israel and Gaza right now is extremely perilous, not only for the people of those two regions but for the world.

ISRAEL AND PALESTINE

October 14, 2023 | Marianne Williamson

The world is waiting tonight, in a kind of death watch, as Israel prepares for a massive invasion of Gaza. While I understand Israel’s fury in reaction to last week’s terrorist attacks – I share it, actually – I cannot see where invading Gaza is going to do more than increase the cycle of hatred that already plagues the region.

FROM PATHS OF DANGER TO PATHS OF PEACE

October 24, 2023 | Marianne Williamson

The key to America’s security in the 21st Century does not lie in our trying to dominate the world, but in our learning to co-exist with it. Just as we have dangerously militarized our domestic police forces, we have dangerously militarized America’s foreign policy as well.

THOUGHTS ON WAR AND PEACE

December 28, 2023 | Marianne Williamson

Just when the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were beginning to lose their grip on our national consciousness, wars in Ukraine and Gaza have arrived to take their place. One thing about which there is no doubt: in the United States there is a forever war machine.