Who among us might have imagined we would
ever peer through the lens of human rights
to see those two stalwarts of the permanent
United Nations Security Council, China and
Russia belabouring the world in outrage
over tiny Israel's march into Gaza in self
defense following savage atrocities mounted
by Palestinian terror groups in slaughtering
Jews while characteristically sacrificing the
lives of ordinary Palestinians to shield their
leaders and operatives from retribution for
their murderous assaults. But there they are --
Russia which mounted a deadly war against
Ukraine and joined another in Syria where its
warplanes and deadly munitions have killed
tens of thousands. And China whose penchant
for swelling its sovereign territory swallows
those of nearby nations and in the process
inevitably killing those who protest, undertaking
're-education', female sterilization, abduction
of children and harvesting of human organs.
The returns are handsome; a deep-sea port and
airbase for the Kremlin's Putin in Syria, and an
expanded Russian Federation in Ukraine, while
Beijing's Xi damns the splittists, extolling harmony
among captured populations resisting the Chinese
juggernaut of expansion. There is territorial
ambition accompanying lost lives and there is
ancestral heritage renewed; on the one hand the
UN becomes the tail that wags the Security Council
and on the other deplores Israel's right of existence.
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