It’s time for a ceasefire in Ukraine
— in 2023 alone there have been estimates of up to 95,000 violent deaths.
It’s time for a ceasefire in Myanmar
— in 2023 there have been an estimated 14,000 murders.
It’s time for a ceasefire in the Maghreb
— the death toll in 2023 is over 13,000.
It’s time for a ceasefire in Sudan
— there have been over 12,000 deaths in 2023.
It’s time for a ceasefire in Ethiopia
—there are estimates of up to 500,000 dead since this conflict started in 2018.
It’s time for a ceasefire in Syria
— where an estimated 600,000 people have been killed.
List of ongoing armed conflicts
It’s time for international intervention where real genocide is occurring.
There are estimates of as many as 500,000 people murdered in the Darfur region of Sudan since 2003. Here’s a PBS report from June 2023.
Battle in Sudan reignites conflict in Darfur
There are an estimated 43,000 Rohingyas who have been murdered in Myanmar since 2016. Here’s a Human Rights Watch report from July 2023.
Spiraling Violence Against Rohingya Refugees
The war in Gaza will probably end soon and there will be a ceasefire.
But why were Leftists everywhere protesting the war in Gaza with an international outcry for a ceasefire only a few weeks after Israel retaliated for a horrific massacre, when there has been nary a peep against real genocide and the many other wars that have been going on for years?
There were over 230,000 deaths in 2022 from armed conflicts in the world.
There have been about 20,000 deaths in the Gaza war.
Why doesn’t the carnage of innocent civilians in the rest of the world matter?
When it comes to Human Rights, the Left is so hypocritical they are morally bankrupt.
War and Peace – Our World in Data
looks like during the covid years there were fewer violent deaths…(how many covid deaths?)
let’s introduce a virus that won’t kill as many people as the violence….
could save alot of resources on arms production….
or
give world leaders lobotomies perhaps
or
a handful of well-placed bullets…
but I jest.
Mr. Dainow,
Your point is valid. Indeed, massacres are taking place in many parts of the world. But there is something appalling about what has been happening in Gaza since 7 October and what has been happening in Palestine for decades. Why are the Israelis subjecting the Palestinians to inhuman tortures similar to those inflicted on their ancestors by the Nazis? Why have the Israelis expelled the Palestinians from their land for decades, just as they expelled the Jews from Europe for centuries?
I would be interested to hear your views.
Israel did not expel the Palestinians from their land. It is well documented history that after Israel declared statehood in 1948 in accordance with the UN partition plan that provided a state for both Palestine and Israel, every Arab country on Israel’s borders attacked. Many Palestinians fled areas of conflict, hoping to return after the war was over and the Arabs won. However Israel won the war. Many Palestinians were left in exile and to this day millions live in refugee camps in Lebanon, Syria and Jordan. The Palestinians didn’t get their land back because the Arab countries refused to recognize Israel or negotiate a peace settlement. No country returns land after a war until the other side agrees to recognize them and signs a peace treaty. After Egypt signed a peace treaty with Israel they got the Sinai desert back. No other Arab country except Jordan has signed a peace treaty with Israel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Arab%E2%80%93Israeli_War
There is no similarity of the Israeli treatment of Palestinians to Nazis. The Nazis had a plan to exterminate Jews, and several other people such as the Roma, and systematically went about it. They rounded people up and transported them to concentration camps where they were forced into gas chambers and killed by the millions. That is genocide.
In Israel’s ongoing wars to defend itself against the hostile Arab countries and Palestinian terrorists since 1948, Israel targets militants. Unfortunately civilians sometimes get caught in the crossfire, such as when there’s a strike against a Hamas commander and other people are in the same area, or when a bomb is dropped to destroy a tunnel and some resulting earth tremors cause some adjoining buildings to collapse. This is not genocide by any stretch and is a very unfortunate consequence of war.