THE glaring indifference and total insensitivity that the leaders of the Western countries have shown towards the systemic and wholesale slaughter of Palestinians in, calls for an introspection about what being human is all about. The idea that one set of rules should apply to a group of human beings only but not to others, must receive our critical attention and outright repudiation.
Thus, millions of Poles, Ukrainians, Gypsies, Russians and other ethnic Slavs, Jews and many others, were systematically exterminated for just being what they were. One recoils with utter horror and sheer petrification when one wonders what could have been our fate as Africans if the Nazis had won the war.
While the rest of the world remained powerless to do anything other than offer remonstrances and condemnations, the West, which has the means to prevent the tragedy that is unfolding in Gaza, could not raise a finger of protest or indignation in the face of this unprecedented wholesale violence and mayhem being meted out collectively against the Palestinians.