Global Humanity Witnesses Continued Insanity and Continued War on Gaza
[Map: Virtually the entire population of Gaza is now crammed into Rafah -the circled area. The Gaza Kitchen]
By Mahboob Khawaja, PhD
[Map: Virtually the entire population of Gaza is now crammed into Rafah -the circled area. The Gaza Kitchen]
By Mahboob Khawaja, PhD
[Photo: UNRWA Palestinian school bombed, MEM, Dec. 16, 2023 (Mahmoud Sabbah – Anadolu Agency)]
By Mahboob Khawaja, PhD
Mahboob Khawaja, PhD
Justice and fairness search for reason and truth, not mythological criteria of political power and ethnic supremacy of the few in global affairs. Canons of rationality do not subscribe to treacherous ambuscade but focus on imperatives of reasoned legitimacy of purpose and an enlightened core principle of justice for all. The UN and all of its organs are dysfunctional, the UNRWA has no operating schools or to shelter millions of refugees, and UN-NGO’s food programs are not allowed when civilians are being starved as a weapon of war. The UN Secretary-General Deteurres using Article 99 (UN Charter) for the SC meeting called it an ‘apocalyptic event’ destroying humanity. President Joe Biden and PM Netanyahu appear to be linked to a false narrative of power politics undermining their own moral vulnerability and sustainable future. On December 8, the US veto at the UNSC meeting signals that reality in the making. America and Israel have plunged into a moral and political abyss and would find it hard to return to the transition of reason and global harmony. American policies are blended into Israeli actions to subdue the Arab world and to destroy the population of Gaza. When there is no reason in global deliberations, cruelty, and insanity is empowering the evil acts of disingenuity against mankind. The tribulations, terror, deaths of innocent civilians, and destruction of human cultures and civilization are hallmarks of the war on Gaza. Perhaps the prevalent scenes of the barbarity of planned killings of women, children, and the innocent are embedded in a hybrid culture – part human and part vulture – as reflected in policies and practices. American veto power at the Security Council signals preference to foil ceasefire and save Israel from the consequences of a barbaric war rather than to listen to voices of global reasoning. Humanity faces a havoc situation of multiple crises of human suffering and abandoned close to 2.3 million civilians.
[Photo: Gaza Refugees, Policy Options, Khan, Nov. 28, 2023.]
By Mahboob Khawaja, PhD
[Photo: Alibin Alibin, Flickr, 4/14/2022]
By Mahboob Khawaja, PhD
[Photo: Public domain]
By Noam Chomsky and CJ Polychroniou
Source: Truthout