By Nick Gier, Professor Emeritus, University of Idaho An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind. —Mahatma Gandhi The single most distinctive aspect of warfare in the 20th Century was the huge increase in civilian causalities,…
Month: November 2023
Bibi, the Bomb, and the Israeli Election
By Nick Gier, The Palouse Pundit The day that Republicans were falling all over themselves applauding Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu’s speech to Congress, 25,000 Israelis were protesting against him in Tel Aviv. In addition to criticizing Netanyahu for…
Abdul Gaffar Khan: A Muslim Gandhi for the Middle East?
by Nick Gier This year is the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), which was adopted by the UN General Assembly on December 10, 1948. The Preamble begins with the “recognition of the inherent dignity and…