These ambitious goals, which included the
eradication of “extreme poverty and hunger”, to
“combating lethal diseases” and “reducing child
mortality worldwide”, proved to be yet another empty
gesture which, unsurprisingly, amounted to
little.
Even if the architects of the project were
well-intentioned as they labored to meet the 2015 deadline,
the lack of true international solidarity made their
commendable program simply impossible.
Sadly, whatever
positive difference that these objectives registered is now
quickly vanishing, not because of the Covid-19 pandemic
which continues
to ravage the world, but because of the selfish and
haphazard international response to it.
Expectedly,
the most vulnerable are the first to suffer. According to a
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Jul 13,2021 - Last updated at Jul 13,2021
When the Israeli Knesset (parliament) failed to renew what is commonly referred to as the Family Reunification Law, news reports and analyses misrepresented the story altogether. The even split of 59 MKs voting in favour of the law and 59 against it gave the erroneous impression that Israeli lawmakers are equally divided over the right of Palestinians to obtain permanent residency status or citizenship in Israel through marriage. Nothing could be further away from the truth.
Originally passed in 2003, the Citizenship and Entry Law was effectively a ban on Palestinian marriage. Under the guise of “security”, the law prohibited Palestinians in the West Bank, who marry Israeli citizens, to permanently move to Israel, obtain work, permanent residency and, ultimately, citizenship.