'Gaza and the moral decline of Western politics'

Gaza and 'the graveyard for children': the moral decline of Western politics

Chandran Nair in the South China Morning Post

"The worst wars of this century have a common thread: Western intervention, instigation, or historical entanglement," writes Chandran Nair in the South China Morning Post. As the "horrors" of the "assault on Gaza's civilian population stuns and numbs onlookers", people around the world are "left wondering why and how Western powers have stood in the way of calls for a ceasefire".

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Gerard Baker in The Times 

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Paul Waugh in The i Paper

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George Monbiot in The Guardian

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