PCAP - Winter/Spring 2025

After a Deceptive “Ceasefire” in Gaza, the US Green-lights Israel’s Continued Genocide

It goes without saying that there have been several impactful events that have taken place in Palestine, the surrounding region, and the United States over the past three months. In Gaza, a ceasefire between the Palestinian Resistance and Israeli armed forces, which held very shakily for two months, was broken unilaterally by Israel on March 17. Since then, more than 1000 Palestinians in Gaza, many of them children, have been killed by Israeli fire. This is not to mention the grave humanitarian situation that exists due to Israel’s draconian blockade of food, medical necessities, and electricity during the so-called ceasefire.

Despite initial hope from some that Donald Trump’s election signaled a change in US Middle East policy, whatever optimism there was has fallen flat as he has endorsed the forced displacement of all of the 2.3 million Palestinians of the Gaza Strip. This decision has been met with defiant rejection by the Palestinian people and the Arab World, fueling serious tensions even with the Arab countries that have normalized relations with Israel. Egyptian and Israeli analysts, for example, have speculated that a forced expulsion of Palestinians into Egyptian territory could result in a war between the two countries, something that nobody considered possible a year ago. Several of our posts in this Newsletter address this criminal plan of ethnic cleansing.

As the descendants of the first Christians in the land where Jesus walked and preached his message of peace and justice for the oppressed, we raise our voices in opposition to any U.S.-Israeli plans to remove our Palestinian people from their land. Several of our posts in this Newsletter address this criminal plan of ethnic cleansing.