Genocide 2.0
In Washington and abroad, longstanding Jewish organizations added their voices of protest against the genocide in Darfur.\n\nBut guess what: It\’s not enough.\n
In Washington and abroad, longstanding Jewish organizations added their voices of protest against the genocide in Darfur.\n\nBut guess what: It\’s not enough.\n
The U.S. Campaign for Burma puts together an internet and television campaign, with the hope that their messages will reach not only millions of Americans but also the rank-and-file soldiers in Burma, who may not even realize how closely the world is looking at the atrocities many of them are carrying out.
Current statistics suggests that, even though France is depicted as less than empathetic to the Jewish community, the Jewish population there has actually grown.
Precisely when the prospect of peace between Israelis and Palestinians seemed at its most remote, I received a call from my friend, Walid Salem.
It was a week to be reminded that miracles do happen, in foxholes, baseball dugouts and even synagogues.\n
How much easier would it be to build a world of love, compassion, justice and peace than the continued path of war and violence?
If globalization wasn\’t going to cure the Middle East, what would? Obvious, said the neoconservatives: democracy. The root cause of the problems in Middle East, they said, is the absence of democracy and the continued rule of dictators.
Briefs
The segment begins with host Jimmy Smits providing a quick overview of a familiar litany of problems besetting Los Angeles. There are traffic-choked interchanges, vast tracts of unchecked development, a trickle of water to slake a thirsty city and brownish air.