There is a detachment from the human conscience and that of the political interest—a detachment where you can clearly see racism and oppression increasing among people. The world is watching the killing and devastation by the Zionist entity against the unarmed Gazans, and despite the arguments of the Zionist leaders and linking their barbarism to the attack on the Zionist entity on October 7th, 2023, the inhumane Zionists’ reaction truly reflects the injustice the human conscience could not bear and ignore.
Destructive attacks with lethal weapons for months targeting civilians and children without discrimination are a scenario similar to what happened during the Second World War (WWII). The war was triggered by the Pearl Harbor attack. The Imperial Japanese Navy targeted the American Navy fleet in Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and the US declared war in retaliation. That war revealed American extremism in the use of power. The US military bombed a civil city, Hiroshima, with a nuclear bomb on August 6, 1945, and they were not satisfied with that as the Americans also bombed another city (Nagasaki) on August 9th, 1945.
The two bombings completely wiped out the entire cities (Hiroshima and Nagasaki). It was a tragedy that revealed the extent of human cruelty and injustice. At that time, human conscience could not bear that shock, forcing the then-leaders to make laws to ban the proliferation of nuclear weapons. The same tragedy is being repeated today, without nuclear weapons. In this case, a strong army, backed by a superpower, is killing unarmed civilians (in Gaza) who are trapped in a narrow area.
The world did not stop the Hiroshima and Nagasaki attacks then and is still not able to stop the attacks in Gaza now, and the reason is that the inhuman conscience of our political leaders is the one that controls the people’s fate. The Gaza war has revealed the failures of democratic principles. The tragic war has shown that the world doesn’t care about the minority. The claims of Western values, freedom, equality, justice, and the rest of the slogans are gone. The world is waiting for ‘the change’ as the politicians’ conscience overrides the nations’ conscience.
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