The Council decided not to hold financialized landlords accountable, resorting to a well-intentioned, but misguided comparison to the health-care system.
Abuses committed by Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups are war crimes and belong before the International Criminal Court. However egregious, they do not extinguish Palestinian humanity, nor excuse Israel’s extensive violations of numerous international laws.
Have lessons been learned? That is far from evident. There has been little effort by any order of government to even reach out and hear community-member views firsthand.
