“The situation for
Palestinians in Gaza is beyond description, beyond atrocious and beyond
inhumane.”[1]
So wrote Antonio Guterres, Secretary General of the United Nations, on May 17,
2025. He could have been looking at films taken when the Nazi concentration
camps were liberated in 1945 at the end of World War II. It was a shock to the world
back then. The scale of the inhumane atrocity of over a million people living
in rubble and starving by design in the next century raises the question of
whether extreme inhumanity toward a group in searing hatred was becoming
normalized, and thus tolerated by the world absent even a coalition of the
willing to step in and counter what even democracy could inflict.
The full essay is at "Beyond Description, Atrocious, Inhumane."
1. Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, LinkedIn.com, May 17, 2025.
