While it is comforting to leaders to drudge on about a “two-state solution” and an innocuous peace plan, it ignores the reality of Israeli settlement expansion and entrenchment of Israeli control over all the land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, according to Foreign Affairs.
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The people of Gaza are calling on the world to bear witness to their suffering. Their attempts are falling on deaf ears.
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In response, Israel declared war and commenced airstrikes in Gaza, while tightening its blockade to cut off fuel and water supplies to the population. A humanitarian disaster now looms as Gaza’s 2 million residents face starvation and hospitals lose power, per Red Cross warnings.
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Israel declared war on Hamas the following day, halting deliveries of food, water, electricity, and fuel into the occupied territory and warning Palestinians to leave for their own safety. In the crossfire on both sides are thousands of civilians and massacres that threaten to change the face of war in the international system.
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For many, there is a concern that the culmination of aid will eventually amount to a much more significant value than what would be fiscally responsible, particularly given the already divisive political perspectives regarding the focus of government spending.
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Residents of Derna, a coastal city of 120,000 in Libya, had no idea that a “tsunami,” as The New York Times reports residents later called the deluge of water racing through the Wadi Derna valley, was headed their way on September 11. Until it was too late.
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Though President Lula da Silva is dealing with political tension due to the previous administration’s lingering military ideologies, Lula da Silva’s vision persists, exclaiming his hopes and dreams for Brazil’s united future.
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African states that are ruptured by ethnic conflict and ideological differences, among many other factors, have continuously proven incapable of developing strengthened and fortified democratic institutions.
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The bilateral meetings between the U.S. and India over trade can potentially provide nations an alternative to China’s nation-spanning infrastructure program, which could increase tensions between nation states.
Read MoreBRICS voted to invite Saudi Arabia, Iran, Ethiopia, the United Arab Emirates, Argentina, and Egypt, giving the group control over three more major oil exporters in the Middle East.
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