The inability and refusal of the leadership of the world community to do something meaningful about the slaughter of innocent people, outside of the combatants of the wars in eastern Europe and Palestine, are clear indications of a loss of humanity.
If we forget for a moment what the contests in the two major wars are about and consider the low value placed on human life, it may shock us into arriving at the reality of how close we resemble the beasts of the jungle.
On the surface, it seems impossible that 21st-century mankind - in particular those in countries in which their leaders with the power to do something to stop the inhumane elimination of tens of thousands of people, mainly women and children - can continue living daily lives unconcerned about the genocidal killings in Palestine in particular.
Moreover, the slaughter of an estimated 64,000 Palestinians, a full 80 per cent of such persons being defenceless women, non-combatant men and children, has been encouraged, defended and carried out with weapons sold and or given to Israel by the acclaimed most civilised of mankind in North America and Western Europe. In the Russian-Ukraine conflict, the latest figures show that close to two million people have been killed.
How can leaders, especially of a modern civilisation, having emerged from the Dark Ages of the 14th and 15th centuries in Europe, rationalise, even contemplate in a meaningful manner, to adopt the position of standing on the sidelines and occasionally issuing inane and ineffective statements without the force to end the slaughter?
Moreover, the said leaders of several European and North American countries are continuing to be instrumental in the murders, while millions of citizens of these countries have been marching and protesting against the slaughter of the innocents. Who, therefore, are the leaders, the governments, the parliamentarians of such countries representing, when large numbers of those they are supposed to speak for are demonstrating their complete opposition to the killings?
The intensity and expansion of the killings and displacement of the defenceless in Gaza have increased to the point where the Israeli Prime Minister and the United States President have agreed to clear Gaza of Palestinians to establish an area for the frolicking of the rich of the world.
Such a plan is consistent with the objective of Russia and Israel to take possession of Ukrainian and Palestinian lands; in the instance of the latter, a complete destruction of Palestine and the scattering of its people.
In the case of Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his team have not hidden the view that they consider the Palestinians to be less than human and therefore not entitled to being treated like themselves. The land grab in eastern Europe is all about one group of people, the Russian oligarchy led by President Putin, fulfilling its quest to re-establish something of the Soviet Union to become the predominant force in Eastern Europe.
At another level of the do-nothing attitude to stop the slaughter, the International Court of Justice has been brooding over a case of genocide brought by South Africa against Israel for almost two years. What more evidence is needed to conclude on a matter that is daily before their eyes?
