Tag: Middle East

Peace: A response beyond retaliation in the Middle East

“We shall respond,” said President Joe Biden after the strike — and he did so in an unproductive and violent manner. I fear what this response will look like and how it will hurt people who have already been harmed by self-indulgent nations like the United States, which evidently considers the lives of its people to be more valuable than others across the world. The United States could have responded with grace and compassion. Instead of responding with bombing or inhumane economic sanctions, governments should send in non-governmental organizations or nonprofits into regions where extremism runs rampant. Give people of other nationalities the gift of order and sanctuary by meeting people’s basic needs for food, shelter and water before losing all sympathy and devastating the land surrounding their homes and livelihoods.

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