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Comments to Senator Maria Cantwell, April 14, 2026 As part of a delegation from the Friends Committee on National Legislation Like others in this group, I am a Quaker. For decades, I have been bemoaning bloated U.S. military spending. I marched against the Vietnam War. I protested the war on Iraq. But this war on…

The ceasefire October 2025

“Peace is not the absence of war. It is the presence of justice.” Martin Luther King In my lifetime, there have been two previous big “peace accords” – Camp David (1978), associated with Jimmy Carter, and the Oslo Accords (1993 and 1995), associated with Bill Clinton. Neither worked. As just one example, the Oslo Accords…

The scariest Gaza news story from yesterday

Today I am holding Israelis and Palestinians in a space of Divine Love as they find out whether the combatants agree to end the war. The positive responses from Arab states seems to say that there is enough justice in the proposals to put them in an acceptable range. The positive responses from many other…