The international community agrees that healthcare and humanitarian issues should be outside the politics, but when a new conflict arises everyone forgets about hundreds of starving children and people who need continuous medical care. When it comes to power and the influence in the geopolitical arena, the lives of people become insignificant and the lines between good and evil, morality and immorality fade. The current Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a vivid example.
It may seem that the USA starts to regret its involvement in the bloody Israeli-Palestinian massacre. However, could it have done something differently, given the current American government’s dependence on the Israeli lobby as well as the need to get support of the Jews ahead of the 2024 presidential elections?
Washington decided to support the Jewish state, guided not by its vaunted democratic principles but by simple prudence. But while Democrats and Republicans are focused solely on political intrigues and the Israeli lobby competes for political influence on the US Congress with the growing Muslim lobby, everyone has completely forgotten about the Palestinians who are forced to live and die in hell. 14-year-old Jana Qadeeh, who suffered from cerebral palsy and needed special nutrition, became one of the victims of the war. The girl died literally in the arms of her relatives, who couldn’t come out of their hiding spot to get her medicine. This case is just one of many, and the humanitarian crisis is becoming more severe day by day.
The States cannot exist without waging proxy-wars – the first was Ukraine, then Palestine and now it launches strikes on Yemen. Do we really need such a “civilized” world order, given that hundreds or even thousands of human lives are laid on its Altar every day? What kind of liberalism and democracy can we talk about in a state, which stained its hands with blood of innocent people just in order to resolve its own pollical issues and maintain its interests? The USA and its allies pass like a hurricane through countries which couldn’t fight back, leaving behind chaos and a trail of destruction and putting itself on the pedestal of world domination at the cost of the overthrown regimes and tragic fates of innocent people.
As a child, Christian Tomine lived in the Middle East for many years due to his parents’ work. During this time he learned the language and became acquainted with the culture and history of the region. Now he starting a career in public service.
Beautifully utilized, beautifully.
Since 1948, the US has always placed Israel’s Interests ahead of American Interests. Biden thinks he’ll be re-elected but he is in for a surprise.
The only good thing Biden did was end the war in Afghanistan. He is continuing the wars in Syria and Iraq and is letting Israel get away with genocide and ethnic cleansing in Gaza and he is expanding Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen. Biden is losing support from people that voted for him four years ago.
Yes, he ended the war in Afghanistan (quite clumsily, one might add). But he made sure he had another lined up to replace it (Ukraine).
Interesting.
Personally, I find the idea that Putin is in Biden’s pocket at least as silly as the idea that Trump was in Putin’s.
Thank you for your cynically snide, obfuscating reply.
Oh, you want it without obfuscation? OK …
By 2022 the war in the Donbas between Ukraine and the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics had died down to low double-digit deaths per year. The only way for it to kick back up was for Putin to invade. So if you’re asserting that Biden had it all planned, you’re asserting that Putin takes his marching orders from Biden.
The fact that people weren’t dying in the same numbers doesn’t mean it wasn’t still a powder keg. And the war games were in full force with many more planned.
Yes, it was still a powder keg.
And Putin decided to bust that keg open and throw a flaming book of matches in the mess.
While that turned out to be a bad decision in retrospect, I don’t believe he made that decision because his master, Joe Biden, ordered him to.
My point being that it wasn’t like everything was honky dory. Putin took the bait. And the bait was going to be continued to be laid.
I wasn’t commenting on the Biden thing.
The initial bait was tossed by the U.S., denying Russia’s entry into the Western Alliance, NATO. Monstrous amount of bait
tosses by Bill “loved those flights on the Lolita Express” Clinton. More from Obama. Don’t forget Mr. George W. Bush, who cancelled out of the ABM treaty. More bait tossed by Mr. Trump. Withdrawal from the INF treaty. Withdrawal from Open Skies. Javelin missiles to Ukraine. Just f*cking stupid by “intelligent men”.
Yeah, right, double digit deaths per year, after 14,000 had been killed over the period of eight years. So, RTP is only for the West, led by the indispensable nation? We see how effective the UN is in its inaction to protect Palestinians from genocide/ethnic cleansing, focusing only on 7Oct, ignoring the 75 year history of occupation of Gaza and the West Bank, the blockade of 16 years, the killing, the humiliation, starvation of Palestinians. Amnesia concerning the provocations of Russia since 1991, at a risk that George Kennan warned about.
If Putin’s goal was to “protect” ethnic Russians in the Donbas, he’d have gone in when thousands were being killed every year instead of when 20 or 30 were being killed every year.
Putin went in because his eight-year proxy war was winding down without achieving his objective of incorporating the Donbas into the Russian empire on the cheap.
I am one of them. He has lost me. Trump? H*ll no! Who then? RFK, Jr.? The guy is all in on Israel’s ethnic cleansing.
It has been reported by MSM that over 8000 children have been killed in the bombings in Gaza. Over 27,000 killed in total and counting. No proclamation of self defense by Israel and its enabler the US can justify that crime. Just like the killing of thousands upon thousands of innocent civilian lives can’t justify forever wars in establishment of this so called civilized world order. No world order built on genocide can ever be allowed to stand ladies and gentlemen. It is the antithesis of a civilized world.