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UN's Secretary General urges nations to work together and recognize that "no community or country, however powerful, can solve its challenges alone."
UN chief: World is at `pivotal moment’ and must avert crises
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The United Nations chief has issued a dire warning that the world is moving in the wrong direction and faces “a pivotal moment.”
So many columns, so many perspectives on the failure to effectively end the American commitment in Afghanistan despite all the dates, deadlines, declared intentions as President Biden assumed the presidency. Still, the decision to leave itself, largely supported in the U.S. and among allies, seemed to occur without sufficient consideration for implementing the decision. To David Axelrod, "The way it's ending is more problematical and cuts against some of his core perceived strengths; competence, mastery of foreign policy, supreme empathy. It's as if his eagerness to end the war overran the planning and execution." A nurse wrote to the Times recently, remarking on how it is that nurses plan for the release of their patients--the plan for their care--at the time of their arrival in the hospital. Why, she asked, did the U.S. not plan for its withdrawal? That is q question that remains to be answered. As does whether the Taliban can govern, whether it will receive assistance from the international community, and what effect the American departure will have on the complex nation's capacity to thrive.
Miscue After Miscue, U.S. Exit Plan Unravels
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President Biden promised an orderly withdrawal. That pledge, compounded by missed signals and miscalculations, proved impossible.
'In contrast to the past when disagreements among members hobbled effective responses to global crises, the U.N. is in a good position to act. The United States, Russia and China — three of the five permanent members of the Security Council — all have a stake in Afghanistan’s stability. And, along with Pakistan, they issued statements in recent months calling for a reduction in violence and a negotiated political settlement that protects the rights of women and minorities. They encouraged the U.N. to play “a positive and constructive role in the Afghan peace and reconciliation process.” Taken together, the statements demonstrate a hopeful amount of political will.![]()
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But there has not been a unified effort to hold the peace process together. '
Opinion | We Cannot Stand By and Watch Afghanistan Collapse
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The United Nations must guide the country away from catastrophe.
An Israeli and a Palestinian making a genuine effort to narrow the divide by appealing to their common humanity, through a rap video that has gone viral, and it's having a significant impact. One observer had this to say: "I've been waiting for someone to make this video for a long time. How can we fight each other when we are more like brothers than we will admit to ourselves? change won't come before we let go of the hate."
A Rap Song Lays Bare Israel’s Jewish-Arab Fracture — and Goes Viral
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A Jew and a Palestinian sling slurs at each other, giving voice to hidden prejudice with the aim of overcoming it.
Religious peacemaking in Israel and Palestine is given a boost by the efforts of a rabbi and an imam. They are fighting to restore momentum to a formal peace process that petered out in 2014. Part of the "back story" is here. The story of religious and secular elements on the front lines of peacemaking, expanding, as they say, "the sense of a peace" that is possible.
As Secular Peace Effort Stutters in Israel, Religious Mediators Hope to Step In
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The inclusion of an Islamist party in Israel’s government has spurred a group of imams and rabbis hoping to build a religious-based peace movement.