Political Play Costs Lives…

The World keeps turning as political games override more humane, more moral concerns as the poor, the underprivileged & the disavowed pay the price for being mere gambling chips on the table of global political endeavour.

Peter Winn-Brown
24 min readJun 20, 2024
Black skies, & plumes of blue-black smoke billow from Gaza city during the first few days of the war
Billowing smoke over Gaza in the early days of the war. October 11 2023. Image from LRB. Image by Adel Hana/AP/Alamy.

“There exists an obligation towards every human being for the sole reason that he or she is a human being, without any other condition requiring to be fulfilled, and without any recognition of such obligation on part of the individual concerned.”

Simone Weil, The Need for Roots (1), on the respect that we all, as human beings, should give, and be given, and that Palestinians have been systematically denied for over eight decades.

Political play costs lives…

Israel’s destruction of Palestine and the Palestinian people is wanton, total, and is as plain as day. Gaza is utterly unlivable and dangerously toxic, and will likely remain so for the foreseeable future. More than 37,000 Palestinians are dead with more than twice that number wounded. And yet, the laws and treaties built with the express purpose of stopping such brutal, cruel and inhumane treatment have repeatedly fallen short, as those who commit the crimes wrap themselves in the…

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Peter Winn-Brown

The past can illuminate the present if we shine the light of inquiry openly, truthfully, with attention to detail & care for the salient facts.