It is five years and counting..
four thousand American dead and counting..
Untold hundreds of thousands of Iraqi dead and counting..
No clear end.. no clear exit strategy...
Time continues to tick...
..Perhaps this, a show of how increasingly complex and concrete the human thinking has become about initiating, as well bringing conflicts to a just resolution. A requiem for simplicity and honesty? Human beings must decide...
Thursday 27 March 2008
Monday 10 March 2008
Celebrations in the wake of murder..
It is to be viewed with a sense of tragedy, the way ordinary Palestinians in Gaza celebrated the recent murder of innocent Jews by a Palestinian gunman a few days ago in Jerusalem.
.. A tragedy that is as a result of the increasing hopelessness of achieving a just and lasting peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians.
Can the persons in a position to broker a peaceful settlement not see how increasingly hopeless the situation is becoming?
Does the uncertainty, anger and fear felt by ordinary Israelis as well as Palestinians in Gaza not make any impression?
.. Dancing on the streets in Gaza in the wake of murder , in many ways questions the assertion made recently by Dr Condi Rice that ordinary Gazans are being held hostage by Hamas.
.. However what will the effect be, of reprisals from Israel?
.. Even more hopelessness.
.. A tragedy that is as a result of the increasing hopelessness of achieving a just and lasting peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians.
Can the persons in a position to broker a peaceful settlement not see how increasingly hopeless the situation is becoming?
Does the uncertainty, anger and fear felt by ordinary Israelis as well as Palestinians in Gaza not make any impression?
.. Dancing on the streets in Gaza in the wake of murder , in many ways questions the assertion made recently by Dr Condi Rice that ordinary Gazans are being held hostage by Hamas.
.. However what will the effect be, of reprisals from Israel?
.. Even more hopelessness.
Monday 3 March 2008
..and now to the healing.
Long after the handshakes agreeing to a framework that hopeful ensures a cessation of violence, and a workable process that addresses the equitable sharing of power and resources....
Long after cautious optimism hopefully becomes conviction that Kenya has turned a corner from the dark and dangerous place it descended to in the wake of the recent elections....
....The Kenyan people must now re-learn how to live with one another in peace.. something that will not be easy.
Re-learn?!.. how did it come to this? What lessons are to be learned from the unfortunate incidents of the post- election era in Kenya?
The answer perhaps, is that the ordinary man, woman and child on the streets is as responsible for one another as their elected officials are responsible for them.
.... that when elected officials fail at the responsibility of ensuring peaceful co-existence, it is left to the governed, for their own sakes, to reach deep into their reserves to make this happen.
Long after cautious optimism hopefully becomes conviction that Kenya has turned a corner from the dark and dangerous place it descended to in the wake of the recent elections....
....The Kenyan people must now re-learn how to live with one another in peace.. something that will not be easy.
Re-learn?!.. how did it come to this? What lessons are to be learned from the unfortunate incidents of the post- election era in Kenya?
The answer perhaps, is that the ordinary man, woman and child on the streets is as responsible for one another as their elected officials are responsible for them.
.... that when elected officials fail at the responsibility of ensuring peaceful co-existence, it is left to the governed, for their own sakes, to reach deep into their reserves to make this happen.
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