Our
part of the world is once again responding with indifference to the human
tragedies that are taking place in Syria and Iraq and to the deepening of the security
crisis around Yemen. As we remain unresponsive to so many other violations of
basic human rights.
Our leaders seem to be overwhelmed by our own
domestic problems, the media is focusing on Le Pen, the UK forthcoming
elections and the inability of the US local police to deal with the challenges
of multi-ethnicity in their towns, and we, the little people, we are just
trying to cope with the air control strikes and the taxes that keep falling on
us. Or preparing for the next holiday.
These
are indeed interesting times: the more we know about the world, and we know
plenty nowadays, the more we close ourselves in our little circles. The
information reaches us but we have learned to ignore it.
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