It goes on and on. Day in, day out. Because it can. It is given free reign, carte blanche, indulgence. There is no stopping it.

Harrowing images rain down in daily cascades over the entire planet. Over and over again. Torn limbs and scraps of flesh. Pools of blood amid shards and rubble. Tiny skeletal souls gasping last breaths. Lines of grieving huddled figures. Cries and wails drifting over the ruins. Dust where once homes stood.

The world is watching. Some say, "In time, you get used to it." Others remain exasperated by the incessant stream of images that confront them each day. Still others – local guerrillas and freedom fighters of other countries do what they can within their limited means to fight back, to support the Resistance; activists voice their outrage and protest under penalty of law of their countries. But it goes on…

And soon, very soon, there will be nothing left – just a void on which the most degenerate amongst our species hope to build a gilded inferno of casinos and resorts… where they can dance around their "Golden Calf".

Gaza is the mirror of our collective humanity today. 

'Just a Little Bit Longer…'

For those who cultivate gentle patience, non-interference, and unwavering optimism there is a light on the horizon… An epochal shift of power is taking place – away from a putrescent Western unipolar hegemony toward a multipolar world with a self-determining Eurasia and Global South, consolidated and bolstered by such organisations as the BRICS and the SCO. The memorable week of the SCO meeting in Tianjin, the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok and the stirring commemoration in Beijing of the 80th Anniversary of the Victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War was received by participants and most onlookers with elation.

A new world seemed to be budding before everyone's eyes. The meetings spawned a slew of trade deals, investments, transactions particularly in the areas of energy, security, logistics and technology… Alongside these successes were discussions on potential alternative global institutions and moving speeches about a more harmonious and just multipolar world… with decency and equality for everyone on the planet.

During that jubilant week in East Asia, many more people continued to die in West Asia as a result of bombs, starvation, torture, and denied medical care. But the mass slaughter of these people did not figure into the programme of those auspicious, future-building events attended by other, more fortunate, Earthlings.

If pressed to say a word on the Genocide, a representative of some honourable state might say with a sigh something similar to what we have often heard before: "It is regrettable, but it's a regional matter that has to be solved by the parties involved; we have our own matters to deal with."

Is a genocide anywhere on our planet a "regional matter"? Really? 

'It's complicated…'

We know that states largely do not act on moral grounds, but in accordance with their interests. A country may thus be reluctant to prosecute or take action against a perpetrator if that perpetrator is an important trading partner, a source of vital resources (such as energy), or a strategic counterweight to a rival country. Any action taken against a powerful perpetrator state could trigger economic penalties, political isolation, or even a major conflict… which perhaps could even lead to a nuclear war.

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The Hegemon, the Zionist perpetrators, and their allies are masters of information warfare. They create smokescreens of denial, obfuscation, and whataboutism (the tactic of responding to an accusation with a counter-accusation). The most moderate amongst them cite "a bilateral conflict", "historical complexities", "terrorist threats"… This manufactured ambiguity provides a convenient excuse for those looking for one. It allows nations and individuals to say, "The situation is not clear," and thus absolve themselves of the responsibility to act on the one thing that is clear: the immense human suffering.

It is better, therefore, to wait a while, for a "better world"… because:

• Getting involved is costly, dangerous, and politically inconvenient
• The systems designed to prevent such a "situation" are broken or held hostage
• The magnitude of the evil is so overwhelming that the human mind can only recoil from it
• It is easier to see the world through a lens of self-interest than through the demanding lens of ethical clarity

But why not at least be honest here: a military intervention would not even be necessary… A cessation of all commercial and diplomatic dealings with the Zionist perpetrators on the part of the Global Majority (non-Western states striving for sovereignty) would be enough to terminate that entity and to finally put an end to the atrocities.

But… this is apparently not an option for most.

Under pressure from their populations, who find it increasingly difficult to deny and ignore the Genocide, some European regimes have only recently decided to recognise Palestine as a "state"… while excluding and rejecting Hamas as a defensive force, and knowing full well that the by now small scattered remains of original Palestine can no longer constitute a legitimate state. In this way, these regimes can give the appearance of being virtuous to their citizens while preserving their undying support for "Israel".

And what about the Palestinians? The late poet Mahmoud Darwish wrote: "Where should we go after the last frontiers? Where should the birds fly after the last sky?"

For Palestine to be restored, for a Palestinian state to exist at all, the "Zionist Entity" will have to be rendered obsolete… because the very tenets of Zionism aim for a "Greater Israel"… a construct that would not only extinguish Palestine altogether but consume other states, as well.

Toward a New World…

In this aching interregnum of our human civilisation, marked by a daily live-streamed extermination of a people and by an apparently less perceptible loss of ethics, during which global systems and international institutions are crumbling (for which no alternatives have yet been proposed – for either systems or the institutions)… we Earthlings are left in a state of nightmarish suspension.

In a functioning society, we need not only economic stability, employment, security and welfare, we also need to be able to find within it embeddedness, connectedness, spirituality, and meaning. Deprived of such necessities, we wait and hope that a "new world", not yet born, will arrive to us.

But someone has to build that new world… But, who will build it and with what materials? What are the materials we have at hand? And what kind of system or systems will it run on?

To those states seeing themselves as pioneers or architects of a new world, who, in the past, triumphed over evil – at great human cost, who fiercely reject colonialism, who speak of a "future community with a shared future for mankind", we may ask them: What is the meaning of "sovereignty" and "strategic autonomy" if it does not include the autonomy to condemn and defeat evil today? What has happened to their moral authority? Are they disowning their great and noble legacy of having defeated nazism and fascism in the past? And what of their rich humanistic civilisations that strove for wisdom and harmony? How will history judge these states in the future if today's supreme test of conscience is met with silence? Can they not even fathom that their inaction in this genocide will become a "strategic liability" for them (in undermining their moral authority to lead; in ultimately creating long-term instability that is even "bad for business"; in them eventually becoming regarded as indistinguishable from their Western adversaries)? Has the system of financial capitalism triumphed also over their values?

The voices that stand out in the deafening silence are not only those in the Axis of Resistance – amongst which are the highly principled Ansar Allah, who sacrifice themselves daily for Palestine – but also unnamed individuals risking their careers and lives in hostile states to denounce the flagrant crimes against humanity.

A strong voice rising from one leader in the Global Majority is Colombian President Gustavo Petro, who on 23^rd September spoke at the UN, urging others to take a position: “We need a powerful army of the countries that do not accept genocide. That is why I invite nations of the world and their peoples more than anything, as an integral part of humanity, to bring together weapons and armies. We must liberate Palestine.” Petro further insisted that it is time for action, not for words, stressing that they [the Zionist-Atlanticist Axis] "will not just bomb Gaza, not just the Caribbean as they are doing already, but all of humanity that demands freedom.”

Shortly thereafter, he expelled all members of the Israeli diplomatic delegation from Colombia and terminated Colombia's free trade agreement with "Israel"… This was not only a call to “liberate Palestine” but to stand up to “tyranny and totalitarianism” that is being propagated by the United States and NATO as a whole. Seeing President Petro's courageous and concrete undertakings, we can only hope for a domino effect.

For Confucius, leadership is primarily about setting an example. §4.16 of the Confucian Analects states: "The exemplary man (junzi) embraces righteousness; the petty man embraces profit."

A "multipolar world" built on the same old principles of cynical realpolitik – in which the term "sovereignty" cloaks self-interest, "patience" passive complicity, and "non-interference" moral abdication – will not be a new world. Not only will a more just social and economic system be needed, but some sincere and earnest soul-searching and a new sense of responsibility toward humanity as a whole.

 For now, the waiting continues…