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Meanwhile NOTE: "No Israelis or Jews involved, only Arabs. So nothing to see here so move along please".'Sudan is the world’s gravest humanitarian disaster – but almost nobody cares'- Jonathan Freedlandhttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/11/world-humanitarian-disaster-sudan'The conflict has raged since April 2023, so there’s been no shortage of time to notice it. Nor is it lacking epic scale. On the contrary, aid organisations say Sudan faces “the world’s worst humanitarian crisis”. The suffering is not complicated or abstract, but heart-rending, brimming with the kind of horror that ordinarily would seize global attention.Take the testimony of one of those many millions who has fled Sudan for neighbouring Chad, a young woman called Maryam Suleiman. She told the New York Times about the day that the RAPID SUPPORT FORCES, THE REBADGED VERSION OF THE JANJAWEED - THE ARAB MALITIA GUILTY OF THE DAFUR SLAUGHTER TWO DECADES AGO – stormed into her village. The gunmen lined up the men and the boys as their leader declared: “We don’t want to see any Black people. We don’t even want to see black trash bags.” He then promptly shot a black donkey, signalling his intent. After that, the RSF men set about executing all Black males over the age of 10, including Maryam’s five brothers, and some younger ones too. A day-old baby boy was thrown to the ground and killed, and a male toddler chucked into a pond to drown. And then, “they raped many, many girls”. They called them “slaves” and told them: “There is no place for you Black people in Sudan.”Nice people.

John Hawkes ● 18d

'"The violence of this year follows 76 years of systemic oppression and dehumanization of Palestinians.'"Another trawl onto a contrarian and probably minority anti-Government Jewish website.This conflict over territory between two peoples that both have claim on it has been surely going on for millennia.And then the historians and intellectuals that make up Hamas suddenly decided to bring the issue to a head - by attacking the state of Israel.Or was it the consequence of their desire to fulfil their Charter declaration to annihilate it.Note:As of June 2024, the State of Israel is recognized as a sovereign state by 164 of the 192 member states of the United Nations. The State of Israel was formally established by the Israeli Declaration of Independence on 14 May 1948, and was admitted to the United Nations (UN) as a full member state on 11 May 1949. It also maintains bilateral ties with all of the UNSC Permanent Five.28 member states have either never recognized Israel or have withdrawn their recognition; others have severed diplomatic relations without explicitly withdrawing their recognition. Additionally, many non-recognizing countries have challenged Israel's existence—predominantly those in the Muslim world—due to significant animosity stemming from the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and the Arab–Israeli conflict'.Take a look at this map and see what countries recognise Israel and which do not.Then draw your own conclusions.https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=67827249Is it not about time that both parties to the conflict, the world community (and even the armchair liberationists in leafy Putney) came to terms with the reality of territorial rights as they now exist and tried to live peacefully alongside each other ?

John Hawkes ● 20d