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The second testimony is an excerpt from Palestinian doctor Hammam Alloh’s October 31 interview with Democracy Now. Two weeks after the interview, he was killed in his wife’s family home in Gaza by an Israeli air strike. Alloh is among the more than 23,000 Palestinians killed by the Israeli military campaign in the Strip – a campaign that experts, academics and civil society organisations have deemed as “genocidal” as it has systematically destroyed all facets of Palestinian life in the besieged enclave.
But curiously, many in the West seems to ignore mass atrocities like these with ease. And Western leaders have become skilled at evading calling them what they are: crimes against humanity. Why?
In part, this is because Western collective consciousness has long been socialised with the assumption that the non-West is naturally a place of unrest, deprivation, violence and, all in all, of inescapable backwardness. This thinking was proliferated in the earliest writings by the “founding fathers” of various disciplines as a matter of scientific fact.
Stopping a genocide requires morally and ethically grounded international action, where the priority is not self-aggrandising but bringing an immediate end to crimes against humanity. Yet, as history’s most televised genocide continues unabated in Gaza, it seems that in the current international system there is no built-in moral commitment to saving the lives and humanity of people who don’t “look like us”.
Let’s hope, though, that the South Africa-led genocide case against Israel in the International Court of Justice proves me wrong.
@CrummyF4irTradeGreen4mos4MO
It's a white supremacy mentality that sees other humans and races as lesser human children of a lesser God and that's why they blatantly have no second thought on decimating a population especially women and children they're an evil entity that should be stopped, they're racists!
@ConservaVicunaSocialist4mos4MO
A combo of Islamophobia and propaganda. A lot of our countries have protective laws around Jewish people so most people are too afraid to criticism Israel, despite genocide in case they are labeled an anti-semite or charged with hate speech
@RebelScum76Constitution4mos4MO
Can you say "Islamophobia" with a straight face? Islam is the most destructive religion in the world.
The Arab world wants to press Israel to a corner, the West will not call a Genocide in Gaza until the Arab world condemns Hamas for starting the Genocide, We cannot ignore the fact the Terrorism and extremism is dividing humanity.
@9J2TPYT4mos4MO
Americans are only concerned with their day to day life, ignore what is going on in the rest of the world and are too easily influenced by federal propaganda
@9J36BFF4mos4MO
why is it always Americans "job" to interfere or stand up for justice for other countries. we need to focus on our own country because it is rooted with many issues.
@9J3F97V4mos4MO
My opinion is there shouldn't be a reason to kill a majority of a race. Why can't differences be settled in other ways other than genocide?
@9J3DH764mos4MO
How can people ignore what Hamas is doing to Israel
@9J3CNDVProgressive4mos4MO
This topic is extremely touchy, but it seems something must be done? I am not big on politics, so I cant really say.
@9J3BBH64mos4MO
People are wrongfully murdered daily, in the womb and outside, both in the US and outside. Some sad incidents of genocide and wrongful murder are promoted by the media in the US, and it's especially sad that similar and worse stories of genocide and wrongful murder happen daily in the US and internationally and those stories are never known. All murder is wrong, whether it becomes knowledgeable to many or none (except when justified in war).
@9J38FC94mos4MO
People need to understand that violence is always going on in the world.
@9J33WS84mos4MO
It is like repeating history of the holocaust
@9J33L3S 4mos4MO
China needs to be held liable for their mass genocide of Muslims
@9J2WP5B4mos4MO
Isereal is murdering people and covering it up with possible fake stories
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