On November 29, 1947 the United Nations adopted Resolution 181 that would divide Great Britain's former Palestinian mandate into Jewish and Arab states. In the intervening years, Israel has been engaged in a series of wars with adjacent Arab states and displaced Palestinians.

As a potential 2026 candidate for Governor of Maryland, as a human being, and as a member of the Maryland Green Party, I am committed to peace, justice, and democracy for Palestinians and Israelis alike. I am deeply saddened by the violence, the occupation and the system of Israeli apartheid. I am angry at the United States federal government, and numerous state governments, for the direct and material enabling of Israeli regimes that continue to defy international law and make peace impossible.

We are now one month into Israel’s unrelenting bombardment of Gaza. Over 10,000 Palestinians are dead. More are missing under the rubble. Nearly half of them are children. More children have been killed in Gaza than the number killed in all armed conflicts globally over an entire year – for the last three years.

And it’s happening on our watch. With our tax dollars.

• Sen. Bob Menendez says the U.S. should help Israel "wipe Hamas off the face of the Earth." Christina Khalil and Madelyn Hoffman disagree.

NEW JERSEY — Should the United States help Israel to "effectively wipe Hamas off the face of the Earth?" This statement from Sen. Robert Menendez of New Jersey – given less than three weeks after Hamas' Oct. 7 attack – is now seeing some fierce criticism from two of his former and current Senate challengers: Christina Khalil and Madelyn Hoffman of the Green Party of New Jersey.

Casualties and suffering have been heavy for Israelis and Palestinians alike.

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Hundreds of Green Party activists from around the Northeast and Midwest joined with a 100,000 people calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. Other Greens marched around the county and across the Pacific to Seoul demanding an end to the genocide in Gaza.

The Ceasefire Now Coalition held a rally in Riverfront Park in downtown Troy on Monday October 30 to call to end to the onslaught in Gaza and to bring peace. Sponsoring groups included Jewish Voice for Peace, Palestinian Rights Committe, Troy DSA and the Albany Green Party.

My name is Peter LaVenia, and I am the co-chair of the Green Party of New York. I'm here with the rest of you to call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and the end of the ongoing genocide being conducted against the Palestinian people!

What the United States is doing is shocking to many because we live in an era when images and video can be shared immediately. But it is also surprising because for most in the United States, we do not learn that it has always been this government's policy to back its client states when they conduct wholesale murder against an entire population.

The Green Party Peace Action Committee (GPAX) urges that the party participate in the wave of worldwide mass protests against the US-Israeli slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza and elsewhere.

Our main concern is US military and diplomatic participation in the war and in the criminal siege and bombardment that have already killed thousands in Gaza, wounded tens of thousands, and left a million homeless.

October 18, 2023

To:
Congressman Raul Grijalva
101 West Irvington Rd., #4
Tucson, Arizona 85714

STOP THE GENOCIDE!

• "You reap what you sow" ~ proverb from Hebrew Bible’s Book of Hosea

Bronx Green Party expresses our deepest sympathy for all the innocent lives lost in the latest military conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians. We cannot in good conscience blame the ultimate victims of this conflict, the Palestinian people. The latest violence is decisively the fault of Israel and its enabler, the United States.