By World BEYOND War and Pacific Peace Network, March 15, 2026
In this webinar, we heard from speakers from across the Pacific about the potential impacts in the Pacific region of the U.S.-Israel war on Iran, Lebanon, and Gaza. We must find ways to push our governments to condemn the U.S. and Israel and to act for peace. A pall of acid rain hangs over Tehran following the bombing of oil storage facilities. Over 1000 people have now been killed in Iran and many, many more injured. Survivors will suffer long-term impacts from inhaling the fumes of burning oil. Some 400 people are dead and 1500 injured in Beirut, plus hundreds of thousands displaced yet again by Israeli forces air attacks and ground invasions. Gaza continues to be bombed with over 100,000 killed since October 2023, hundreds of thousands injured, and health services decimated.
SPEAKERS:
-
Australian Greens Senator David Shoebridge, spokesperson for “Defence” and foreign affairs, David has been a prominent media voice warning of Australia’s involvement in U.S. wars, advocating an independent foreign and “defence” policy.
-
Sung-hee Choi from South Korea has been joining the struggle against the Jeju navy base for the last 15 years. She is also a member of People Making Jeju a Demilitarized Peace Island, Inter-Island Solidarity for the Peace of Sea, and People Opposing Space Militarization and Rocket Launches.
-
Eugene Doyle from NZ / Aotearoa is a writer and member of Just Defence, a Wellington-based “defence” policy group. Just Defence is calling on the government to freeze spending on “defence” and urgently reassess Aotearoa’s place in a rapidly changing world.
-
Ann Wright from the USA is a 29-year U.S. Army/Army Reserves veteran who retired as a Colonel, and a former U.S. diplomat who resigned in March 2003 in opposition to the war on Iraq.
-
Cora Fabros from the Philippines is Co-President of International Peace Bureau (ipb.org) and a core member of the thematic circle on Peace and Security at the Asia-Europe Peoples Forum (aepf.info). She is a member of the Steering Committee of the Dismantle Military Industrial Complex Network.
-
Rachel Clark is a Japanese American who lives in New York. She works closely with Veterans For Peace and is the coordinator, annually, for a U.S. veteran to speak to many audiences in Japan. She has worked closely with the Japanese Peace Boat in its New York City office.
2 Responses
Israeli’s war on Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Yeman, Iran, Iraq with 2000 lbs bombs supplied freely by United States taxpayers money has to be stopped. Israel is a threat to the world peace and has to be dismantled. Israel doesn’t want peace why because continuously attacking it’s neighbors for expansions. World war I and II started because of and for the jews per BBC and so WW III.
As a human being we all have duty to stop all wars including Gaza, Weat Bank and Jerusalem, Lebanon, Yeman, Iran, Iraq, Sudan and …… to stop Armageddon and end of world.
good day, for all, i’m a peruvian citizen, by the way, i’m writing this note- opinion- in May-11- 26; as you must know, we’re having presidential elections now and landscape is much confusing, as a country, we are in middle of a huge turmoil, we have to choose between Let and Right positions, the Right position aproaches clearly pro american ,while the Left, is an ultra- radical one. As its known, pres. Trump ,signed, a US Security Treat, in which, our hemisphere , practicaly, belongs to the US. My country, is mainly democratic and a, assuch, we consider a soberaing one. Thus, we have received and signed mayor economic treats withthe countpart, China. We , as today, don’t know which side will win elections, and, there is to much interests in gamble.