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Confronting a Mindset: "Bombing Hiroshima was Right"

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Susan Galleymore
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While it is dispiriting to see how little progress has been made toward a nuclear weapons-free earth in the sixty-five years perhaps one can take comfort in such micro increments. If Israel is finally named in the latest treaty document despite the deep consternation within that country and within the American community for whom Israel can do no wrong perhaps there is a glimmer of hope.

Moreover, Hiroshima is, today, a beautiful, modern city. And the Japanese a community that knows deeply, genetically, the reality behind nuclear warfare have a deep commitment to life and a peaceful world. Perhaps there is hope for humanity....


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Susan Galleymore is the author of Long Time Passing: Mothers Speak about War and Terror, sharing the stories of people in Iraq, Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, and U.S. [Pluto Press 2009]. She is also host and producer of Raising Sand Radio (more...)
 
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