For centuries, oligarchs were viewed as empowered by wealth. The common thread for oligarchs across history is that wealth defines them, empowers them and inherently exposes them to threats. The existential motive of all oligarchs is wealth defense.
Save the Children has warned that “children are at heightened risk of loss of life, physical harm, severe emotional distress, and protracted displacement."
The group called for an immediate ceasefire.
“This is pure horror for all children and their parents. Across the Gaza Strip, more than ONE MILLION children are trapped in the middle of an active conflict zone with no safe place to go and no route to safety.” #Gaza#children@palestine
@eeyam@palestine The doctor and THIRTY FIVE members of his family... If this is not a genocide, what is it? Oh right, it's Israel's right to self-defence...
"What we reject is Zionism's tribalistic and nationalistic interpretation of those texts, the reduction of a great idea - an Alliance between God and all of mankind, His presence within each human being - to the most nefarious concept of all: that of a "chosen" people, elected by a partial god, a notion which justifies in advance every kind of domination, colonization and massacre."
The situation in Gaza is absolutely dire and there should not be collective punishment on more than two million Palestinians in Gaza, Scotland’s First Minister Humza Yousaf has said.
“What we need leaders to do is to treat an Israeli life and a Palestinian life as equal." “The collective punishment of men, women and children simply cannot be justified. The overwhelming majority have nothing to do with Hamas.”
‘Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind,’ - Bertrand Russell