Let's try this., Dawes
Watch today's Democracy Now! program in entirety.
Listen to the doctors speak.
Now, tell me we are members of a decent world.
Tell me we are civilized, and have the right to make comments as if we are qualified to do so, while this shit continues.
Humanity has doomed itself.
We are all members of a losing team.
All of us.
While this carnage and slaughter goes on, who among us is blameless?

A complete and immediate ceasefire or not?
Watch Democracy Now! today for a different perspective than the mainstream media would like you to believe.
Israel and the US has drug the world to new lows.
While some continue to say Israel is justified in this slaughter.
I am tired of the lies and brainwashed westerners

House of........................?

Lack of humility.
To drive around in a luxury car while the country you are in charge of doesn't have reliable electricity, water, internet and phone service. Pretending we are a 1st world country while all reasonable metrics suggest a banana republic.
If we needed proof that our leaders are out of touch with the people, is there a better example than this?

This government seems to have moved from outrageous to committing suicide.
Are their any thinking people left in Parliament?

It is not a question of hate.
Hamas has a right to break out of their "open air concentration camp", as described by all reasonable and decent humans.
And yes, I fall into the no Israel camp as the experiment of giving another person's land away by an imperial power does not jibe with my sensibilities.
No hate, no injustice, just give the Palestinians their land back, as most of the reasonable, decent world citizens have agreed. And, the UN has stipulated. But, the US and Israel continue to support the expulsion of native peoples from their historic land.
Zionist Israel was, and is based on total lies.
God was not a real estate agent.
One cannot convert to being a Bahamian.
Would DNA support the idea that Jews came from the "holy land"?
Why use a completely different set of criteria for establishing ownership and heritage of land?
Many in the west, The Bahamas included, have succumbed to the barrage of lies coming from mass media surrounding the establishment of the state of Israel. It was not a land without people. It was not another colonial country's choice to give it away. If there is guilt over the holocaust, let those who perpetrated these crimes pay for it with their land and resources. The Palestinians were not involved in the holocaust, were they? This is nothing more than a power grab and a geopolitical chess move that moves humanity closer to the brink of extinction.
Sadly, it has nothing to do with Judaism, since all decent Jews are protesting this situation, along with the countless millions of other decent people around the world.
Political Zionism has absolutely nothing to do with Judaism.
Israel has nothing to do with Judaism.
If this isn't clear, we've failed miserably in our stated educational objectives.
The world is opening its eyes.
Israel and the US will soon be irrelevant.
Are we prepared here?
Or, do we even acknowledge it is happening?
Or, did you miss the recent UN votes?
What nations are willingly standing with the US and Israel?
Because they are jealous, or because they see the US and Israel as bullies?
Time to be honest.

"Cool heads are needed, and not just ones that are looking for a victory, but ones that are looking to build a future."
Agreed. This is what the UN and other "outsiders" were charged with doing.
Not always successful, but a start, right?
Examine the facts and come to an equitable solution.
The US and Israel have ignored, over and over, the recommendations of the world's people for decades now..
Since the conflict didn't start on October 7, perhaps a short review of history would help.
Take the hundreds of UN resolutions, or the calls from international journalists, and human rights organizations, not all of which, or perhaps any of which, could be called anti-Semitic. For decades now, the international community has called for the removal of illegal settlements by Israel in "occupied" Palestine, ending the extrajudicial state sponsored killings, apartheid, and collective punishment. Among many other human rights violations by Israel.
How have Israel and the US responded?
Clearly there is no "rules based order" for those with the most lethal weapons.
What did we learn from the challenges in Ireland?
Perhaps that honest dialog could pave the way for peace?
Israel and the US have snubbed their noses at all calls for justice in solving this conflict over and over, and over again.
We have not had any honest peace brokers.
Is this not clear to all who have been paying attention prior to Oct. 7?
What we are witnessing is a genocide in Palestine.
It is an epic tragedy for mankind.
While we watch, and talk.
Children are being starved to death.
And we want dialog.
We are sick, aren't we?
That the world's leaders waffle and hesitate on calling for an immediate ceasefire and immediately calling for a tribunal not dissimilar to the Nuremberg trials to hold those responsible for these crimes against humanity, is clear evidence that humanity is not making progress on these matters.
Sometimes, as when a child is being raped, it is incumbent upon us to act. Not talk, not have diplomatic meetings, not ask both sides to testify, but we must act definitively, boldly, forcefully, immediately to stop the crime.
The world saw what happened in the holocaust. Is this any different?
The oppressed, as explained and understood by modern psychology, have become the oppressor.
While we waffle and ask for dialog.
No. Stop the global descent into madness.
For clearly, much of our world has gone mad.
There are not two sides here.
Humanity is being almost unimaginably cruel, ruthless and soulless to ourselves.
There is only one side here. The battle for human decency.
And, it seems we have lost this once admirable trait.
I am not alone in seeing this.
A sad state of affairs, perhaps maybe even a fitting ending, for a God-chosen species, hey?

Is this the kind of stuff Mr. Davis means when he says Financial Services Industry?

We have kept ourselves on our knees, Mr. Davis.
Being a haven for tax evaders is nothing to be proud of.
We have never faced any of our problems like adults.
So, the fact that every State Owned enterprise in this country has failed, or is failing, our society is in shambles and crime is rampant, is all because the global north has had their knee on our neck?
Would being honest, just once, not serve us well, on a national level?
Why do we continue to blame others for our obvious lack of leadership and education?
With thinking like this, can things ever change for the better?
Is the lack of development on our Family Islands a result of the global north?
How about the prevalence of single mother homes, with no father present at all?
The epidemic of gambling, drinking rum, and sweethearting?
How about the divisive and dirty politics in this country? The global north?
Perhaps the audience for this speech was a little more receptive and ignorant of our internal woes.
Always someone else's fault. Always.

Do people, or countries, have a right to exist?
Those who support Israel no matter what are morally lost.