who said an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind

To start paying for nonviolent solutions, we can close all our nuclear weapons plants, disarm our nuclear arsenal, and allocate those many billions of dollars to the many problems we face in the world. This money is available for war and should instead be made available for peace. Of course, America is going to have to spend billions of dollars on nonviolent options. Creative nonviolence should become our new foreign policy and the policy of every nation. We should cut off all funding to ISIS from all quarters, and fund nonviolent peacemakers throughout the Middle East. We should start a massive reparations program to Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Palestine, and every land we have bombed, on a scale greater than the Marshall Plan. The United States should immediately halt all its bombing raids and drone attacks and pursue ceasefires everywhere. What is needed instead of continued military violence is a new global nonviolent response.

The American government has killed hundreds of thousands, militarized much of the Middle East, funded the Palestinian occupation, and used drones to kill innocent civilians in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Libya, and elsewhere. We want to stop the killing, make reparations, and start healing our world.Īl Qaeda and ISIS are the outcomes of far too many years of U.S.

We don’t want to keep on inspiring millions of oppressed people to join ISIS or Al Qaeda. Americans want a new nonviolent response to the violence in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Yemen. Millions also want the senseless killing to stop and they realize we must begin with ending our own military’s killing sprees. war-making is breeding a new generation of terrorists around the world. Millions of Americans believe that war doesn’t work, that war cannot end terrorism because war is terrorism, and that U.S.

Who said an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind