By any measure of human decency, what has happened in El Fasher — the capital of North Darfur in Sudan — is a catastrophic moral failure. When paramilitary thugs storm a hospital and murder patients in their beds, we’re no longer talking about a civil war. We’re talking about genocide. And the world’s silence is deafening.…
Israel, Gaza, the UN, and the Latest Round of Blame Games
If you haven’t been glued to the headlines, let me catch you up before CNN and the UN finish chiseling Israel’s tombstone. Israel is knee-deep in Gaza once again, this time bulldozing into Gaza City after months of firefights with Hamas. It’s messy, bloody, and about as “civilized” as a bar brawl at 2 a.m.…