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As One War Dominates the Headlines, Another Fades From View
And still the innocent suffer
For several days now, maybe a week, we’ve eaten breakfast while listening to sometimes rancorous discussions on BBC radio over whether a pro-Palestinian peace march in London should take place on the same day as the annual Armistice march.
Two marches — one to protest deaths caused by a current war, the other to remember those who died fighting in several different wars.
Later, I read an opinion piece in the New York Times: I’m a Ukrainian, and I Refuse to Compete for Your Attention. Reading it, I realised that I hadn’t seen much about the war in Ukraine since the Israel/Gaza war started a month ago. The Associated Press still reports on it —a few days ago Russia unleashed a wave of nighttime drone and missile attacks across Ukraine — but Israel’s bombs over Gaza are getting most of the attention.
Meanwhile, another war is going on in Sudan where rival generals have turned a country of 46 million people into their personal battlefield. The Washington Post sent a team of reporters travelling on foot and motorcycle through jagged ravines and dense forest, to reach survivors at an encampment in northern Thailand. If that war made the front pages or aired on the nightly news, I must…
