"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.

Yup. Right on.

Yup. Just like the shock treatments for depressed people and drug addition.
Stats don't lie.
They don't work.
We keep looking for a quick fix.
Nothing replaces good parenting skills and a robust social safety net.
We don't seem to believe in the hard work required.

Agreed!

"Having a say in how it is run" doesn't translate in being a bully.
The world sees clearly who the US really is.
Sometimes, just sometimes, perhaps we could stand on principle, and not just money.
All eyes must be on minimizing human suffering immediately.
We must understand the reason for the UN in the first place.
Seems we missed history class and all events since its establishment.
I am starting to believe that most Christians are ignorant and confused.
I do not believe that might doesn't make right.
The world order, as presently exists, needs radical and fundamental change. It is happening, while the US kicks and screams, and kills millions worldwide.
We continue to worship mammon, expecting different results.
Decency in our world is waning.

Another way for corruption to flourish.
As we see elsewhere, as if we didn't know ourselves, the police and the judiciary are the greatest dangers to a democracy.

Quite clearly, something went very wrong in Bahamian society decades ago.
Hence the results we witness today.
Everyone has an answer.
I wonder how many are right.