Category Archives: Current Events
Comments on an Israeli propaganda video
Israel has one response to critics like historian Ilan Pappe, author of “The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine,” attack the book and its author as frauds, the object being to kill the book and destroy its author. That is the only purpose … Continue reading
Posted in Commentary, Current Events, Israel, Justice, Palestinian people, propaganda, Uncategorized, Zionism
Tagged commentary, Israel, justice, Opinion, Palestine
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When reality stares us in the face, face it
On March 14, 2014 journalist Alison Weir published a book “Against Our Better Judgment: The hidden history of how the US was used to create Israel.” To date it has received 289 reviews, 79% of them 5-star reviews. One reader … Continue reading
Posted in Commentary, Current Events, George Polley, Israel, Justice, Palestinian people, Peace
Tagged building peace, commentary, denial, future, George Polley, Israel, justice, Palestine, Palestinian people
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How Not to Win Friends and Influence People: ignore them and talk about yourself
In April of this year, Rabbi Alissa Wise of Jewish Voice for Peace gave a talk at a Christian pro-Palestine conference, Friends of Sabeel North America (FOSNA), held in Vancouver, BC. FOSNA’s goals are (1) to promote awareness and understanding of … Continue reading
Posted in Commentary, Current Events, Gaza Strip
Tagged FOSNA, Gaza, George Polley, Israel, justice, Palestine, Palestinian people, peace
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Denial and the inconvenience of reality
Denial is the refusal to acknowledge an unacceptable truth or emotion or to admit it into consciousness. We use it to defend ourselves from knowing what we do not want to know. If pushed, we may respond with anger, until … Continue reading
Posted in Commentary, Current Events, George Polley, Israel, Peace, US history, War
Tagged commentary, denial, George Polley, Israel, peace, reality, United States
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When truth hurts
Sometimes learning the truth is very painful, especially when it has to do with a country that you love, a people that you love, and/or truths that you cherish and believe are unquestionable. Faced with this kind of situation, we … Continue reading
How not to build peace
It’s simple: Divide everyone into “Us” and “Them”, link the two with the word “versus” (“against”), and there you have it: the opposite of “you” will always be “them,” and “they” are always the enemy. Simple, isn’t it? It’s also … Continue reading
Posted in change, Commentary, Current Events, George Polley
Tagged children, chilren, future, Jr., Martin Luther King, peace
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Creating peace
For a viable future to be possible we must, as Martin Luther King, Jr. said many years ago, learn to live together as brothers, or we will perish together as fools. The reason why is clear: the destructive power of … Continue reading
Posted in Children, Commentary, Current Events, George Polley, Golden Rule, humanity, Peace, War
Tagged addiction, Ben Jansson, building peace, children, chilren, commentary, George Polley, Golden Rule, military industrial complex, peace, war, war industry
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Making Peace
“True peace,” the founder of Panasonic wrote in one of his books, “is not a state of non-war. Peace is a state in which people understand each other, help each other, and share wisdom and power with each other;” (Konosuke … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Peace, War
Tagged building peace, commentary, George Polley, peace, peaceful actions, war
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Using wars to find peace.
World War One began a hundred years ago. Billed as “The war to end all wars,” it was but the beginning of more than one hundred years of continuous war fought somewhere, wars that have cost trillions of dollars and killed … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, humanism, humanity, Militarism, Peace, War
Tagged addiction, commentary, George Polley, Living, peace process, Successful Living
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Musings by George Polley 
Pursuing ideals
The important thing is to never give up. Here is a poem that describes what we must do in crazy times like these. ~ ~ ~ Even though our reality Is filled with discrepancies and problems We should not stop … Continue reading →