A response to the War in Gaza

The situation in Gaza shows that the United Nations Organization has once again been emasculated by the G8 powers to the point when it has become completely unable to defend human rights. Just as the world witnessed and continues to witness the destruction of the lives of people of African descent in Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and, as we speak, in Zimbabwe, Uganda, and the current DRC, it is once again powerlessly bearing witness to genocide of human lives in Gaza. I say “human lives” because no nation or international agency is stepping up to end the violence in this part of the world, as should be the case had we learned the lessons of Rwanda, Burundi, Sudan, and the DRC. If we really mean what we say when we talk about "freedom" and "democracy," we should not allow powerful groups to eradicate less powerful groups from the earth. Allowing this situation to happen is tantamount to letting strong gangs eat up weaker gangs while we (patrol officers and so called law-abiding citizens) duck and endlessly brag about our love of “liberty” in the media, courts, and classrooms. Future generations will remember us as the people who did not defend the most basic human need which gives reason to our existence: the need to value the life of one person as being as important as that of another. We keep seeing this devaluation of the lives of other human beings by the narrow-minded and militaristic abusers of human rights that keep contradicting the virtues of reason, liberty, and equal rights that populate their rhetoric and books. One solution to this blindness is for every citizen to call their local representative and ask for a withdrawal of the Israeli Army out of Gaza and for a multilateral resolution of the conflict. Citizens, not the current UN, will be the driving force of liberty. They can ask clear-minded leaders from around the world to get together and find ways to continue negotiations leading to peaceful solutions.